Are there memories for which people don’t have photographs?
Have there been moments in our lives that we wish we had captured but didn’t?
Or did evidence of those moments get lost to time?
Can we take the stories from our memories and recreate them?
Will this feel good or bad? Is this scary or pleasing?
Can we change the way we look at our past?
These are some of the questions I was asking when planning an intervention. How can emerging technologies in generative AI help us recreate and curate memories to help shape our outlook on the self?
To answer these questions, I have envisioned a Wall of Memories: Lost and Found.
The participants will be asked to write down a memory that they cherish but have no photographs of. Something from their past that is important to them. They will then place this memory randomly on a wall. The wall will then become a wall of lost memories. I will then replace these texts with AI generated images of their description and allow people to come back and see it.
Did they notice what was written around them before? Or will they notice it better in images. Will their image help them better connect with their memory? How will this affect their view on the past and on the future of technology?