Memory, Pervasiveness, and Facebook

About

“On this day” is a Facebook app that displays photos, posts, and videos either uploaded by the user or where the user was tagged by someone else. The purpose of this app is to display user’s past memories. The photos, posts, and videos displayed are gathered from the user’s public album dated in the current day and month but in previous years. This app follows automated steps in order to ‘curate’ the user's memories. "Memory, Pervasiveness, and Facebook" is an installation that explores the concept of pervasive memory. This installation tries to mimic the algorithm of "on this day" in order to highlight that, as a clumsy curator of personal memories, it continuously shows a contingent of meaningless, painful or happy memories.

Privacy & Terms

-If you decide to print your photo you are free to stop the process at any time.
-No data is gathered through this web page.
-At the end of the process the photo is deleted from the computer.
-No passwords are stored on this machine or the web page.

Involuntary Memory

Instructions:

1. Make click on the Facebook login button.
2. A photo taken from your timeline dated close to the current day will be shown on the screen.
3. Choose between "Print Memory" or "logout"
4. If you choose to print the image, it will be downloaded and converted to STL format almost ready to send it to print.
5. If you choose to not print the image, you will be logged out from Facebook.