We were split up into two groups for the project so that we could focus on different approaches to the Project. I am to be more focused on the technical aspects of the project which is a relief because I’m terrible at all this critical analysis kind of stuff.

While discussing how we might come up with a narrative arc, Hannah made the important point that presenting a photo trail narrative is too simplistic. We should be thinking about the interaction viewers can have with the work and the way they can explore the concepts of memory loss whilst taking part in the experience. Maybe we can allow users to explore the landscape, coming across fragments and unclear snapshots and attempting to salvage the rest of the memory.

Some notes I took during the class (Amanda Barnier was there):

• Why La Perouse was picked as the location
  • Not as touristy as somewhere like Sydney Harbour
  • Make use of the features of the landscape
• Engaging a bodily experience
  • Physical actions, beginning and end points
• Encoding and layering of memory
• Identity memory
• Sensory memory and SenseCam, SenseCam retains everything we usually discard
• Shared experience of childbirth, shared but dissimilar
• Being behind your own eyes or being off and intellectual, rumination.
• Triggers
• Oscar Pistorius and the cross-examination memory reconstruction alteration
• The flood of sensory memory captured by a SenseCam
• Ideas for the Project
  • We could follow couples around the area as the explore the area
  • The water, digging things up, time capsule. Time frames
  • Views from a lower angle indicates a child’s perspective
  • The dimension of time
  • Different people observing the same things can remember different things. We encode memories that are relevant to us. SenseCam grabs everything.
  • Shells and shell arrangement from La Perouse history