.>. memorycams

Cameras optically/sonically record our experiences.
Memory is fallible.
[And sometimes people lie and say they merely "misremember."]

 

History is learned intellectually, less so experientially.
History, often, is _institutional_.

 

Memory is DIY

 

Memories are our intimate record of experiences.
Memory is fallible.

 

What does the camera do to the body/mind of the user? What does it do for other viewers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I have it all here on my camera."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iron Man (2008) clip shows "Innocent" and "Hostile" display

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Washington Post: "In an apparent first, Dallas police used a robot to deliver bomb that killed shooting suspect"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robocop (1987)
Paul Verhoven's cyberpunk film of dehumanization via mechanization.
Evolution of police uniform-agumentation since mid-twentieth Century.

1940s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1988

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2013-16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cyberpunk anticipated the mechanized "enforcement body" and speculated on the pyschological, social, and legal effects of this mechanization.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The toxic "certainty" of enforcement tech.

Is "certainty" a software script?

What happens when the script is corrupted or fails?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hype Williams' cinema of the "Data Body"

Using special lenses, elaborate costumes, novel editing techniques, post-production, and animation, Williams paints a cinema of cyberpunk and Afrofuturism where dreaming, performing, and data-retrieval co-exist.

videos:
Missy Elliott - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (1997)
Busta Rhymes & Janet Jackson “What’s It Gonna be” - (1999)
Kanye West - “Stronger” (2007)
Common (w Pharrel) - “Universal Mind Control” (2008)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mechanized Body Modification - dehumanization and cyber-siege.