Today I want to follow up on the post about Brazils initiative to initiate a digital memory policy and capture the digital archive of cultural memory. This is exactly the topic of the paper I shared last week about civic urban memory and utilising the Fediverse model to preserve social interactions about place and culture for posterity, in a publicly owned sphere. This is another article from Braziliana Museums.

#academichatter #urbanism #SocialMemory #academicmastodon

https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/sobre-a-importancia-de-uma-politica-para-memoria-digital/

In the most impressive case, a 46-year-old #bonobo named Louise at the #KumamotoSanctuary in #Japan repeatedly demonstrated "robust" attention upon seeing photographs of her sister Loretta and nephew Erin, whom she hadn't seen in more than 26 years. The team said Louise's results represent the longest-lasting social memory documented in any non-human animal to date. #SocialMemory #Chimpanzees

Chimps and bonobos recognize friends, relatives they haven't seen in decades :
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/26/1221543486/chimps-bonobos-recognize-friends-family-decades-apart

My piece for the Mnemosyne show at gallery AL859 in Porto.

The 2nd picture shows how it was exposed - as an origami cyanotype made of 30 individual pieces.

The 3rd picture shows all the developed individual images opened out.

The exhibited composition reflects how our unique experiences of the same event come together to give us a new, shared, social memory.

#cyanotype #metamorphogram #origami #ModularOrigami #memory #mnemosyne #al859 #porto #portoartist #socialmemory