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Figure 71: ‘Remember to Forget?’ installation view (left) and detail (right), 2006.
Aoife Ludlow
Ludlow claims that interactions with jewellery objects while they are being worn
are often subconscious or habit-related. Often the most conscious interaction
occurs at the point of putting on or taking off the jewellery, rather than whilst it
is being worn. ‘Remember to Forget?’ proposes designs for jewellery pieces,
which contain RFID (radio frequency identity) tags and other hidden technology
that tracks and records when and how long the piece is worn for, based on the
time it is absent from its place in the box. The more the piece is worn the
brighter the projected glow from the box, the less the piece is worn the darker
the box becomes, gradually fading into the background.
‘Remember to Forget?’ was the fifth most-referenced piece by the press in a fiveway
tie with at least two references. This piece was originally sited in CityLab in
the same room as ‘Warp’. This set up was not working and the piece was moved
at the very last minute. It was replaced with several Woodeson’s ‘Chicken Soup
From Mars’ pieces which worked much better with the ceiling-mounted ‘Warp’.
Also the construction of the piece was exposed in the view from the corridor.
This work was moved across the hallway into the room with ‘Watermark’. The
red-filtered lighting in this room compromised the effect of the projection from
‘Remember to Forget?’ but this was considered more favourable than exposing
the technical aspects of the project as had been the case in the previous location.
4.5.3 Symposium
A few the participants 117 in the exhibition had been invited to present at the
symposium at the time they were contracted to contribute to the exhibition.
117 Tavs Jorgensen Aoife Ludlow, Justin Marshall, Lionel T. Dean and Human Beans.
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