Troika Hardcoded Memory

  • Troika
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  • Surrogate 2009 - Photo by Troika
  • The Weather Yesterday 2012 - Photo by Troika
  • Plant Fiction 2010 - Photo by Troika
  • Falling Light 2010 - Photo by Troika
  • Pallindrom 2010 - Photo by Troika

Hardcoded Memory

The low-resolution portraits generated by Hardcoded Memory are a celebration of forgetting. When our only physical records of past experiences were printed photographs, notebooks and films we could only select a few memories to document and store. Many of these would naturally fade from view or become lost, along with our own blurred recollections. Today, however, technology makes virtual forgetting almost impossible.

Hardcoded Memory projects four portrait photographs through over 850 custom-cut Swarovski optical lenses illuminated by white LEDs. These are moved back and forth by a set of rotating cams, transforming the circular projections seen on the gallery wall. Information about the images is contained within the mechanism, through the individual shapes of the cams, setting a definite limit on the number of portraits that can be shown. These digital memories are therefore hard-coded into the display apparatus.

Troika

Troika is a London-based studio founded by Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastien Noel. Known for experimentation, their cross-disciplinary approach bridges sculpture, architecture, and contemporary installation. By merging technology with design, Troika explore the intersection of rational thought, observation and the changing nature of reality and human experience. Their works feature in the permanent collections of MoMA, New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Art Institute of Chicago and the V&A Museum, London.