The open reels, cassettes, photographs, vinyl and film, their corked up promise of hidden gems and forgotten dreams, a collective memory waiting to guide and inspire new tides.
If we only could infuse the digital seas with our local cultural debris, we would cast our nets and with the precious catch assemble new worlds rooted in what once made us who we are.
Virtual shadow boxes of washed up debris, inspired by the first armchair voyager Joseph Cornell and William Gibson’s fragmented artist A.I.from the orbiting ‘Villa Straylight’.
The Magnificent Memory Machine, a device and a movement to collect, convert and make available fading memories that will provide a fertile collective context for present and future cyberspace navigators and storytellers.
Magna Żmien, a movement for the digitisation of sound and image home collections. For submission of your collections visit our website www.magnazmien.com or contact us here [email protected] or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @magnażmien.