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Tomb of Memory
Website; Installation; Performance
2022-2023

The work is presented in the form of a website and performance. On the website, I created a digital tomb for my digital memories spanning four months, from October 1 to February 1. These digital memories include both public content I posted on social media accounts and private content stored on my phone, computer, and other electronic devices. Memories, in the form of images, videos, sounds, and other media, are scattered throughout the website. The audience can click on different media to trigger various links, navigating through the maze of my memories. By using the links on the internet to simulate the way human memory works, I aim to explore the relationship between human memory and the memory of the internet.

After the four-month period, I severed the links to the memory entrances. I exported and stored the four months of digital memories on a USB drive, then placed the USB drive into a time capsule. I proceeded to delete all digital recollections from these four months from my electronic devices and social media accounts. Finally, I sent an invitation via email to the users of my website to attend a funeral. During the funeral, I buried the time capsule underground, leaving the memories in the physical world, and used augmented reality flames to declare the disappearance of memory in the digital world.

Through this series of actions, I seek to explore the contradictions between privacy and the public, memory and forgetting on the internet. After deleting my digital memories, I created new digital memories—the archive of the work. The final outcome of the work is a cycle of memory and forgetting.

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