This series of real-time generative artworks explores the dynamics of digital memory, not as metaphor, but as material. The works run as live systems: allocated memory is continuously loaded, sorted, and blurred. In moments of heightened structural order, the data begins to corrupt and degrade, its patterns dissolving into noise. As the system approaches maximum order or complete entropy, the memory space is released and reallocated, and a new cycle begins.

What the viewer encounters is this perpetual loop, its emergence, collapse, and renewal, as something visible and felt. Memory, here, is not an archive but a living instability: shaped by repetition, erosion, and the brief clarity that precedes forgetting.

Minted on the Tezos blockchain in September 2021, the project represents the culmination of an extended investigation into digital memory that began in July 2018.

Editions

• Memory Studies 001 (ed. of 100). 09/2021
• Memory Studies 002 (ed. of 10). 09/2021
• Memory Studies 003 (ed. of 10). 10/2021
• Memory Studies 004 (ed. of 10). 10/2021
• Memory Studies 005 (ed. of 10). 10/2021
• Memory Studies 006 (ed. of 10). 10/2021

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