memories of sand. mah - 2013 (giselle beiguelman, university of sao paulo)
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5th Media Art History 2013 | Re:new Riga, Latvia
Giselle Beiguelman University of Sao Paulo -‐ Brasil
Memories of Sand
MEMORY HAS BECAME A PRIMARY ASPECT OF THE EVERYDAY LIFE
A FETISH HAS BEEN MADE OF “MEMORY” AS A “THING”
MEMORY BECAME A CORPORATE ISSUE
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POLITICS OF INFORMATION AND MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES
Portrait of Pope Julius II. c.1512 -‐ Raphael
Portrait of Queen Maria Luisa 18th-‐ Goya
Luis XIV Hyacinthe Rigaud 1701
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.(..) They are not built for the ages, but rather against the ages. (…) Both past and future are placed into an objecdve present. (…) Time becomes a place minus modon. If dme is a place, then innumerable places are possible. Rather than saying, “What dme is it?” we should say, “Where is the dme?” Robert Smithson. Entropy and the New Monuments (1966)
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