{"id":859,"date":"2022-09-06T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=859"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:30:42","slug":"topics-in-itp-the-medium-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/topics-in-itp-the-medium-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Topics in ITP: The Medium of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mediumOfMemory.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mediumOfMemory.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mediumOfMemory-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mediumOfMemory-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simone Salvo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the medium of memory? In this 7-week studio, we will dig into this question through creative, lens-based storytelling. This class will introduce traditional and bleeding-edge documentary methods to inform our own approaches to activating archival material, exploring: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>how interventions on found materials\u2013and its inverse\u2013redaction, can surface possibilities for alternative narratives;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how techniques like reenactment, AR, and speculative forms of new production can make visible unrecorded histories or call into question the power dynamics embedded in official records; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how we might recast objects and sites of memory-keeping, like heirlooms, journals, and memorials, as a mode of engaged preservation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Mid-way through the course, students will identify either personal or collective histories to open up to their own individual creative reexamination, memorialization, or transformation\u2013each producing a final project with the technology and approaches of their choosing that serves to answer the question we started with: what is the medium of memory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the medium of memory? In this 7-week studio, we will dig into this question through creative, lens-based storytelling. This class will introduce traditional and bleeding-edge documentary methods to inform our own approaches to activating archival material&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-tier-2-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}