Mark Tin
Files, 2023
Two-channel moving image projection with sound (looped)
Our memories become fragile with respect to time, and it becomes a matter of accurately recalling how the content of our memories unfolded. Our memories can appear to ‘fade’ or ‘glitch’ with time, often generating a somewhat fictional or a different perspective of how something took place. We are left with our impressions of what took place to generate some accuracy in recalling a memory. These impressions come in different strengths of how it made us feel, attributed to the multiple tile shadings occurring in the first channel. The second channel adds a building of a grid which responds to the first channel and situates documenting memories with technology. The tile drawings are scanned and assigned to the grid, becoming an entire moving piece like a disco ball. And it echoes how we integrate technology with our lives to document and archive our memories.
Mark Tin engages with merging moving images with traditional practices such as drawing to give 'moving' properties to the inanimate art form. Mark is interested in what becomes of our memories in a digital context where 'memories' are made to be stored and archived thinking of social media. Mark investigates the relationship between the custom of 'posting to the grid', interrogating whether our memories are authentic when we choose to take a picture with our phones, and contrasts this with the impressions and feelings memories give us when we recall them from our minds.
