Collaboration between Jose A. Olivares and Eduardo Lytton for the course Interactive Screens and Cinematic Objects at ITP-NYU.

The image of a 12 year old girl is presented in the realm of abstraction. Her image represents a sort of memory, or is an extension of the past as an idea, as it exists on an ideal plane. This girl is from a different era, a more “analog” era– the 80s, the time of VHS video. She is presented without context but yet she seems comfortable within it. Through her actions we see that she seems content with herself and may be slightly tentative at times but her independence is still intact. We can see by the way her gaze and smile extends out of her that she is filterless– She is someone who has either not learned boundaries yet or has lived a sheltered life and has not learned to distrust strangers.

With different iterations this memory becomes distorted or less defined, each impression reflects or influences the other and each image (or memory) takes on different qualities, different textures, and begins to take a different form.