Visual Arts + Tech

"ARK-4E: An Inquiry Into Memory" explores archival practice through a tangible and interactive approach to storytelling. Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions of the events surrounding the fictitious ARK-4E Project by browsing a desk’s worth of artifacts: an architectural model, fabricated documents and photos, notebooks, blueprints, soundbites, and ephemera.

"ARK-4E" aims both to experiment with the archival form and to critique how our social hegemony curates public memory. Not only is it a peek into the "black box" of archiving, but the ARK-4E Project also serves as a confrontation of "mnemic necrosis," or the death of memory in the Information Age, on a personal, institutional, and public level.