huacachina clip

audio/video, development

This project explores a family Super 8 video archive from the 1980s, filmed by my aunt in her mother country, Peru. Through shifts in format and context, its gaps and disintegration echo the way memory is assembled and generative. I use machine learning as a tool to produce alternate activations of small archives, resulting in fragmentary forms.


archive as dataset

Video thumbnails from digitized family archive of super 8 footage
Original excerpt (input data) from family archive of super 8 footage which was broken down into individual frames and used as input data
A vector and its image from a model I trained on excerpt of super 8 footage
Latent space from a model I trained on excerpt of super 8 footage





// "double slash"

video sculpture using digitized family super 8 archive

✦Featured in CAMRA Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF): Rupture and Repair (2021), University of Pennsylvania
✦Featured in http:// hypertransfer-protocol's 2020 exhibition 'http:// data as symbolic form/exchange'



Excerpts (edited and unedited) from family archive of super 8 footage