A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
August 20, 2014
Original Title:
Memory Palace
Alternate Titles:
Chapter 5: Memory Palace (Tabularium at Slopes, Melbourne, 2014)
Lawrence Lek's Bonus Levels, Chapter 5
Memory Palace (In Search of Hypertext)
Genres:
Animation
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 10
Within the walls of the Memory Palace, viewers (also known as browsers) are in a perpetual search for a state of total recall. Searching for the perfect text within the Memory Palace is also an exploration of a virtual archive which contains three forms of memory: books, architecture, and video. Its architecture is based on a modern data centre set within the Tabularium - the state archive of the Roman Empire on the Capitoline Hill. Its collection consists of publications about the internet that do not exist in online form, drawn from the archive collected for the Tabularium exhibition, 2014. Its videos are drawn from fragments of films about books as a physical artefact. Exploring the world is a journey through these forms of collective memory.
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
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Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.