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George Legrady:
POCKET FULL OF MEMORIES
Media Arts & Technology Graduate Program
Department of Art Studio UCSB
legrady@arts.ucsb.edu
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Conceived as an installation on the topic of the archive
and memory, "Pockets Full of Memories" was exhibited on
the main floor of the Centre Pompidou National Museum of Modern
Art, Paris, France from April 10 to September 3, 2001. During this
time, approximately 20000 visitors came to view the installation
and contributed over 3300 objects in their possession, digitally
scanning and describing them. This information was stored in a database
and organized by the Kohonen self-organizing map algorithm that
positioned objects of similar descriptions near each other in a
two-dimensional map. The map of objects was projected in the gallery
space and also accessible online where individuals in the gallery
and at home could review the objects and add comments and stories
to any of them.
PFOM integrates the real space environment of a museum
installation with virtual access to the database through the internet.
Visitors to the exhibition contribute visual and descriptive information
to the digital archive about an object in their possession at the
time of their visit. The data contribution takes place in the entrance
area where the public interacts with a kiosk-like scanning station
in a two-step process that consists of the scanning of the object
followed by filling out an questionnaire through a touchscreen interface
to describe its attributes. The image of the object and descriptive
data are then stored in a database that grows throughout the duration
of the exhibition. Presentation and access to the database occurs
both online and in a large-scale projection in the gallery space
of the museum.
For more information visit www.georgelegrady.com
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