The verb: Travel.
Document. Remember.
Nowadays, it seems traveling is one truly meaningful way to open horizons and learn from your surroundings. Travel by definition means going to a place that is physically removed from your everyday, one has the tendency to photograph, write and sketch about the experience in order to document and take a piece of that place away with them and recreate or meaningfully maintain that experience with them.
With already existing media interfaces, one finds a phone/camera/video/text message at one’s fingertips. Yet that media interface is flawed in one area: memory capacity.
Recently (during my past studio trip) I was fumbling with my digital camera the entire time. Either batteries were low or my memory card was too full. Traveling with your laptop can often be cumbersome, so I left that at home. But I was left with limited facilities and capabilities.
I propose an interface that can document, photograph, film, take sound clips but storing it virtually. By connecting it to virtual memory storage space, the internet, the memory card will never be full, memory is almost limitless, almost like your mind capacity. Physically, you only capture and remember what you wish to. But now there is the potential to capture it all, without discretion and post trip you can filter the memories that you would like to maintain.
But on the down side, this type of interface begins to deteriorate physical presence, mind and body. Basically, by using these filtered/supplementary devices, it removes you from the experience. Instead of seeing things with your own eyes, you start to see everything through a lens, feel things through a filter. Everything becomes unreal, intangible, virtual.
