Fragments - Memory De- & Reconstruction Of Historical Imaging

Fragments is an interactive installation that represents historical moments of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. The installation is an embodied interaction where people walk into and bring through their body movements the installation to live.Through a constantly changing interactively generated image collage, Fragments mimics the way the human brain retrieves memories as well as how novel memories are constructed as an interaction and a collage of different memorized images that overlay, overlap, and partly fade out. Different archival photographs taken throughout time show past moments of the historically important place. When the viewer approaches the installation, images of the past appear on transparent curtains hanged from the ceiling close to the visitor's position. Fragments generates new images with those that newly appeared as a collective collage of historical fragments. Thereby, the installation shows the transparence of memory, its overlap with other memories, and the creation of collective memory stories consisting out of a memory fragment collage.