Random Access Memory is conceived as a research into the mechanisms of human memory. Based on the premise that our biographical memory functions as an unstable archive, subject to continual alteration with each act of remembrance, the project questionss the notion of memory as a fixed or immutable entity.

While access to our mental repository of memories is instantaneous, unlimited, and seemingly costless, the very architecture of memory imposes a hidden toll: each act of recall subtly erodes the memory itself, modifying it in slight but irreversible ways. After certain number of such accesses, the original memory becomes unrecognizable. What remains is not the memory itself, but rather the memory of having remembered.

Computers, possess memory too -RAM, stands for Random Access Memory- which offers the same seemingly limitless and immediate access to stored information, but without the gradual erosion intrinsic to our biological systems of remembrance.

Drawing from old photographs, residual icons of personal or collective pasts, Random Access Memory stages a speculative meditation on the act of remembering through an algorithmic process. Here an algorithm performs repeated and randomized accesses to these visual records, introducing subtle visual alterations with each iteration. After a certain number of operations, the image becomes so transformed that it is rendered unrecognizable. All data remains present, nothing has been deleted, yet the internal coherence of the image is lost, leaving no way to revive the image in the original conditions.

Memory here is no longer treated as a container, but as an active operation, perpetually suspended between storage and loss, between archiving and degrading, much like the workings of the human mind.

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