memorialmatter

Tin Wilke & Laura Fong Prosper

Our digital culture has a strong material condition, it is based on millennia-old temporal strata that contain the writing of the terrestrial life which is also the geological foundation where the archive of our collective memory has been written, from ancient to contemporary data technologies.
Memorial Matter deals with the enigmatic crossovers between earth materials and intertwined temporalities. An extensive historic film archive that reveals the use of industrial technology to extract natural resources as a sign of progress is used by the artists. They disrupt material temporalities using artificial neural networks to transform the progressive imaginaries of the 20th century into materials that refer to a future as distant as the past of the minerals from which they were constructed.
From a hybrid practice that crosses analog archive and digital media, Tin Wilke searches for morphological patterns in archival machines to propose the creation of fictional narratives about futures of coexistence between humans and non-humans, shifting the digital imaginary to the rematerialization of a new possible space-time from the ruins of the Anthropocene.