Title: At the Threshold of Moments Abstract: In this paper, I will try to trace my documentation instinct which leads me questions about my identity and makes me anxious about losing my memories and having amnesias. I am trying to capture the moment and collecting memories via different type of visualization tools, in a sense of social and personal context. I am constructing a personal nostalgia through constructing memory. “Capturing” these moments is a communication way with my own past. We are rewriting and reshaping our memories involuntarily. However, in late capitalism of this post-modernist era, we live in great speed and vast consumption society. The average life of people is prolonged while the average life of products, objects and buildings is shortened and this leads to cultural amnesia both in terms of personal and cultural memory. While the longevity of human life is changing, how can we build an identity and keep our memories as they are? In this paper, I’ll
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The longevity of human life is influenced by genetics, the environment, and lifestyle. Environmental improvements beginning in the 1900s extended the average life span dramatically with significant improvements in the availability of food and clean water, better housing and living conditions, reduced exposure to infectious diseases, and access to medical care. The average person born in 1960, the earliest year the United Nations began keeping global data, could expect to live to 52.5 years of age. Today, the average is 72. Life-span views embrace the joint influences of multiple factors on memory development, including the important roles of environment interactions at different stages of the life. From a social-cultural perspective, these adult differences in autobiographical memory should be related to specific socially organized activities earlier in development. When we repeat memories like in childhood (with the daily questions like "tell your grandma about your
-150 words- My latest works are mostly about my memories, my memories from the past and the future. Mainly I record things that I want to remember, I draw the past I’d already lived with my own alterations and the future that I want to live through imagining it. I also love quotes and asking questions. I love to combine graphic elements with texts. Text-Art is another inspiration for me because I believe I communicate better via words. Lately, I am inspired by J.L. Borges and Olivia Laing. Borges is, as already well-known, famous with his nondestructive short stories. Olivia Laing is a writer and cultural critic. I read her book “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone” and the main scope of her is to question how we live without connecting another human being. She is searching for examples through art criticism. Keywords: narrative, not forgetting, remembering, personal memory, text art, past, future. -300 words- I am defining m
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Not forgetting. I am trying to connect my own cultural memory and collective memory. I feel like I have an obstacle in my mind for connecting with the collective memory because of the lack of some family traditions and I discovered that I am unintentionally obsessed about "not forgetting". Also, I am aware that even "collective memory" terminology is problematic though, but it is another issue to discuss. Memories are like sediments. You think you forget them but their traces stay in your mind (in your subconscious) and they shape you while they are piling up. I guess I can say that my father's uncle had Alzheimer and I'm not sure it has affected me for having some kind of obsessions about "not forgetting". I am the only one in the family trying to collect family mementoes. Sometimes I feel like I have Tabula Rasa , like a blank mind with a slippery ground. No memory can stay there and that feeling affects me. I feel like I lose my memorie
Reconstruction of A Memory
How do we distort our memories and how we remember them? Why do we remember colours/events/things incorrect and how do we associate with reality through our memories? Is remembering possible? If we were able to ‘remember’, we would remember events exactly how they were, but I believe I am with Chris Marker in this case: we do not remember, we rewrite memories. Chris Marker has a monologue in his cult documentary “Sans Soleil”, “I’ll have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not opposite of forgetting, but rather it's the inner lining. We don’t remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.” (Marker, 1983) As an (not) opposite word of remembering, forgetting is an annoying fact of life. According to Richard Morris, forgetting is a necessary part of the memory. The brain forms memories. Brain forms some representations even it isn’t completely accurate, and memory is happening automatically. Brain has a number of different
Mostly my interests take form around visual expressions. I think visually. I have to see the stage while I am listening to a concert, I can't even close my eyes during the performance. I need visual contact. I imagine while I read, also that's why I am a daydreamer. Even though I know these "visual thinker, kinetic thinker, etc" generalizations are embraced by marketers, who design campaigns to reach targets, I still believe there is differences between thinking like musicians. Musicians think in a different level, their left and right side of brain work very actively. As a visualizer, I mostly imagine a whole picture, on the contrary musicians have to read from left ro right and also from up to bottom. Neuroscientists have observed musicians' brain while they play hooked to EEGs and seen vibrant activity in the visual cortext, as well as the auditory and motor cortices of the brain. In this context, I am visualising everything intangible, nonphysical things in
What do I like? It is hard question for me because I have difficulties in hierarchical questions. I like mostly cliche things like watching films, gigs, listening music on my own, night walks, reading 19th century novels, going to a museum to see a new exhibition or a digital-based performance which has never seen before... In other words; my motivation is to recognise myself, my true self, my inner motivation. Most of the time, my motivation for self-improvement is to see/understand relations between things, from historical events to current affairs. I am trying to understand cause and effect relations, that's the main reason that I am into lots of different disciplines, especially when it comes to social sciences. I can describe my point of view with an architectural metaphor better I assume; imagine history, philosophy, social events, thoughts, scientific developments like a total architectural site and think every sub-categories like buildings and think their subs as ro