Memory Maps

"Memory Maps" is an installation that imagines what an ethical, community-based technological system might look like in a world increasingly moving toward the human-machine threshold. Inspired by self-playing pianos and Bhanu Kapil’s poetry, visitors interact with a digital typewriter interface programmed to ask open-ended questions about identity and futurity. The visitor re-imagines themselves, where they have been, and where they will be, closing the conversation by contributing questions for future participants. With the visitor’s consent, their Q&A will become part of a physical guestbook. Visitors also receive an automatically formatted and printed zine of their dialogue. Programmed by an Arduino Mega and Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, the entire typewriter system is enclosed in a standalone unit made of plywood, acrylic, and dichroic film.

Exhibitions

• University of Virginia Shannon Library, Charlottesville, Virginia (Current)
• Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference, Virtual (June 2025)
• International Symposium of Academic Makerspaces, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (September 2024)