coreMEMories

When describing a certain feeling or sensation can be hard - what about describing how a sensation looks like? Are memories more than just a set of mundane electric impulses? Do memories have glitches? And is there a way to visualize them?

I tried and shot a plethora of 6k raw footage clips in my studio using various techniques including prisms, holographic foils and coloured lights as well as background projections created in After effects. Looking at the result I immediately felt these clips look different from anything I created before. Some of them look like a glimpse into a far away past. Events that slipped into deep consciousness. Like memories that lift me up or flashes remembering me of my childhood. Some trigger certain smells or synaesthetically make me see the music I have been listening to in very particular situations. Some of them even look like what is called photopsia - the discharge of electric impulses due to an irritated retina caused by a pull in vitreoretinal attachments or migraine.

This is how ’coreMEMories’ became an intimate yet creative experiment attempting to make nerve impulses visible.