WORK
Machine Memory
Machine Memory (2026) is an interactive work that exists in conversation with how we might use machines to store our memories both intentionally and unintentionally, and what happens when those memories can be distorted and resemble something that we don’t own.
What it means to place faith in systems whose processes remain largely hidden from us?
This work was exhibited as part of my solo exhibition ‘Faith in the Machine’ at 4A Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney in 2026, as part of the Emerging Digital Artist Program. The show invited viewers to reflect on their own impulse to anthropomorphise and depend on machines. Challenging consumption of digital systems and how these technologies shape the ways we think, trust and construct meaning.
During the exhibition visitors were invited to leave a memory for the machine, which slowly reinterpreted their words and performed the output through the physical act of slowly writing. Fragments of this recollection accumulated in a journal throughout the exhibition, forming an artificial memory composed of people who participated in the work.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land that I live and work, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation and their ongoing connection to land, waters and culture.