Volume 4, Number 1, February 2024
Memory: Sites, Trauma and Materiality, Memoria: Trauma, Sitios y Materialidad
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Artificial Memory?
Abstract This brief essay examines the impact new technologies, like augmented reality and AI creations, are impacting public memory. While there are many concerns about the erosion of authenticity, some artists are using new technologies to create a more diverse, robust, and optimistic version of the memory landscape. Memory Connection has long served as a […]
Memory, Myth, and Monuments: The Commemoration of a Contested Past in Western Ukraine
In 2010, President Viktor Yushchenko’s posthumous award of the title ‘Hero of Ukraine’ to Stepan Bandera ignited a debate that threw memory and history into conflict. Bandera was the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) whose military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), or Ukrayins’ka Povstans’ka Armiya, fought for Ukrainian independence from 1942–1952. […]