press release

The degree to which the internet impacts our sense of the past and memory inspires our next exhibition. Here are just a couple of comments that give us pause:

On no longer needing to remember: “... [The] power of Google and other search engines is to find almost everything we need at the click of a button.  There is no longer a need to remember...” Peter Morville, 2005

On the displacement of our sense of the past: “The more memory we store on data banks, the more the past is sucked into the orbit of the present, ready to be called up on the screen.  A sense of historical continuity or, for that matter, discontinuity, both of which depend on a before and an after, gives way to the simultaneity of all times and spaces readily accessible in the present” philosopher Andrea Huyssen

We invite a discussion in our exhibition “iremember”, of works that use the past as a material.
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