Rememory

Rememory is a visual series inspired by the popular Taiwanese myth of Mazu. In this story, a human woman chooses to undergo a violent physical transformation, shedding her human body to become a sea goddess in order to save those she loves. Inherently this myth challenges our notion of identity — who we are expected to be, who we ourselves aspire to be, and ultimately who we choose to become. The series is a creative collaboration between artificial intelligence and myself — a first-generation American child of Taiwanese immigrants. Through my upbringing, I inherited the histories, mythologies, and cultural context, which manifest in this series that gives an outdated story new life.

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My interpretation of Dear Future

What if we could live in multiple moments at once? The future is the dreams and stories of the past, continually re-interpreted as cutting edge technologies allow us to process them in new ways — be it the hammer and chisel, the kiln, or artificial intelligence housed in a supercomputer. To me, the future isn’t is a single moment in time, it’s multi-directional and constantly evolving. But to have a direction, there must be a point of origin: the past. I see us merging with artificial intelligence and fundamentally changing how we exist. And if we are armed with the upgraded thinking capacity of AI, how can we begin to reinterpret the past and draw new directions for inspiration, culture, and identity? This technology doesn’t not mean we lose our humanity, but enhance it. Our emerging technologies of the present will dissolve the boundaries of time, and the past and future can meet us where we are.

My interpretation of Dear Future