Be nomad, carry your memories with you…

Looking at some of my work carried on a while ago at the Graduate School of Design, I dig out FLASHback from my digital storage unit. FLASHback is a project using flash and created with the precious help of my friends Eva Papadimitriou, interactive designer and Scott Pobiner.

At first, memories populate the wallpaper. Each dot (the symbol I chose for the demonstration) is an abstraction of a recorded memory, sound, smell, and picture. Dots agglutinate according to the information they encapsulate. When you trigger dots on the digital wallpaper, they animate.

So the wallpaper becomes this evolving pattern (growing according to the number of memories that will populate it), and kinetic as dots move when you trigger them and at the same time images, sounds, or smells are played back… memories mix.

The abstract element that fills the wallpaper could be of any chosen shape. It is a personal choice.

This project brings into mind the notion of choice (what memories do I chose to populate my wallpaper with; with what abstract element do I chose to represent my personal memory?), and the notion of intimacy (each wallpaper is personal although we could envisage collective interactive wallpapers), and the idea of portability (one could project this wallpaper in any given space, on any given surface).