Algorithmic Memory: Digital Media and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Joel McKim (Birkbeck, University of London)
Friday 24 February 4-5pm, UTC
Join series organiser & BIRMAC fellow, Marcos Centeno, and Senior Lecturer, Joel McKim (Birkbeck), for the first in a series of seminars on memory, acts of remembering and place. This talk will discuss the significant presence of digital media at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, focusing particularly on the interactive design work of Jake Barton and his studio Local Projects. Through concepts of mediated intimacy, algorithmic memory, and digital engagement, the talk will consider the ways in which forms of computational logic and digital interactivity are transforming the surfaces and interfaces of the traditional memory museum. It will argue that Local Project’s media interventions into the space of the museum present the potential for a productive confrontation with the complexities of post-9/11 memory, while also acknowledging that the studio’s vision for a collaborative and even contested engagement with the past is only partially realized at Ground Zero.
Free event, registration required. Register here.
Part of the Memorial Sites series of events
