Synthetic Memories: Live Reconstruction

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Synthetic Memories: Live Reconstruction

Domestic Data Streamers (ES)

Synthetic Memories is an initiative that preserves at-risk personal memories by converting spoken descriptions into visual images using Generative AI. An interviewer helps select a memory, and a prompter uses the oral description to create a GenAI prompt. The interviewee then gives feedback to refine the generated images until one aligns with their recollection. The session ends with the person receiving a printed copy of their synthetic memory.

WED, 3.9. 15:00–16:00 Christa Sommerer
FRI, 5.9. 12:30–13:30 Derrick de Kerckhove

POSTCITY, First Floor, S+T+ARTS Prize Exhibition
Mi. 3. Sep. 2025 15:00 – 16:00
Fr. 5. Sep. 2025 12:30 – 13:30

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EN

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FREE / No Ticket

  • Domestic Data Streamers

    Domestic Data Streamers is a collective from Barcelona comprising journalists, researchers, coders, artists, data scientists, and designers who have been focusing on exploring new data languages and their social implications since 2013. Their research and work translate into films, installations, digital experiences, performances, and exhibitions in a wide range of contexts such as schools, prisons, movie theaters, museums, the streets of many cities, and even the United Nations Headquarters.

  • Photo: Laurent Mignonneau

    Christa Sommerer

    Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists, researchers, and pioneers of interactive art. In 2004, they established the Interface Cultures department at the University of Arts Linz, Austria. Sommerer has held visiting professorships at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts) in Beijing, Tsukuba University in Japan and Aalborg University in Denmark. Together, they have created around 50 interactive artworks, exhibited in approximately 350 international exhibitions.

  • Photo: Camila Cunha

    Derrick de Kerckhove

    Formerly director of the McLuhan Program at the University of Toronto, and currently director of Media Duemila in Rome and the Osservatorio TuttiMedia, Derrick de Kerckhove has authored a dozen books, translated into as many languages. Also research director at the IN3 in Barcelona, he focuses on the impact of technology on art, culture, and society. In his latest books—The Quantum Ecology (with Stefano Calzati, MIT Press, 2024) and L’uomo quantistico (Rai Libri, 2025)—he applies principles of quantum physics.

Credits

Airí Dordas | Marta Handenawer | The Ars Electronica Award for Digital Humanity was initiated and is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

Presented in the context of STARTS Ec(h)o. STARTS Ec(h)o is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101135691.