Remembr

Remembr is a digital photographic memorial that draws upon the rich performances and rituals involved in the use of older analog technologies as a means of lending digital photographic archives not only a physical presence, but also a sense of value, preciousness and longevity that will allow them to be handed down across generations and persisted over time in more meaningful ways.

The memorial box is a physical instantiation of your flickr photostream that comprises several ‘blank’ slides and a digital slide viewer, that is constructed upon the closing of an account. Although each slide appears blank, they are embedded with an RFID tag that corresponds to a photoset within the relevant flickr account, rather than individual photos, while the account holders username, the title of the photoset and number photo’s within that set are all etched onto the surface of the slide.

Upon placing a slide into the viewer, the internal RFID reader detects the tag and searches flickr. A slide-show of the corresponding photoset is then displayed on the viewers internal LCD display, which can be seen through the slides’ blank window.

remembr_shelf slide slides_detail viewing


Photo Box | Hidden Printers


About

My name is Mark and I’m a product interaction designer and researcher. Or something.

I am currently a PhD student at Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Lab and Horizon DTC, where I am conducting design lead research into the consequences and implications of the technology mediated practices that we currently employ to record and recollect our experiences.
Alongside academic research I have maintained my own creative practice, and continue to work with commercial design studios, artists, galleries and research labs, on anything from hardware development and prototyping to interaction design and conceptual development.

I am also a co-founder and collaborator at The Institute for Boundary Interactions; an interdisciplinary research collective research working across science, technology, art and design.

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