my memories are blue and green and teal
Henrique Bastos Stockler
Advisor: Kari Love
how do we keep analog memories alive in the digital
era?
This project aims to answer this question. By
researching his own archives of analog recollections,
such as film negatives and VHS tapes, the artist
reconstructs his childhood home from memories, from
scratch. Viewers can watch the artist’s past embeded
in the walls of the house, getting a glimpse of what life
was like in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil in the early 2000s.
Project Description
if you could go back in time to a specific place, where would you go? 'my memories are blue and green and teal' is an attempt to create a time machine. by researching his family archives of film negatives and vhs tapes, the artist reconstructs his childhood house, from scratch and from memory, through an interactive physical model.
Technical Details
this project started with the scanning hundreds of film negatives with an epson perfection v300 scanner and vuescanner.
the vhs tapes were digitized using a sanyo vwm-675 vcr vhs player through a rca-to-hdmi converter and quicktime.
the house model was developed in adobe illustrator and autodesk fusion and cut in wood with a cnc machine. the physical artifact has been designed to be modular and easy to take apart and transport by using magnets.
magnetic pogo pin connectors are used as the digital input into an arduino nano iot33 that send midi notes through serial.
midi notes are used as triggers in madmapper to start and stop the mapped projections on the walls of the house.