To remember and forget: lecture 2

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1. To remember and forget:
   Memory and machine
   Lecture 2
   Taeyoon Choi
   NYU ITP
   9.15 2014
   

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2. Archives
   

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3. No, the technical structure of the archiving archive
   also determines the structure of the archival content
   even in its very coming into existence and in its
   relationship to the future.
   

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8. “If only our artisans would not so often forget
   when doing this that it is not the constructive,
   schematic forms that appear primitive to the
   child, but rather the total construction of his doll
   or his toy dog, insofar as he can imagine how it is
   made. This is just what he wants to know, this first
   establishes his vibrant relationship with toys.”
   

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10. “I had a simple impulse to cut into the earth.
    !
    I imagined taking a knife and cutting into the earth,
    opening it up, an initial violence and pain that in time
    would heal.
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    !
    The need for the names to be on the memorial would
    become the memorial; there was no need to embellish the
    design further. The people and their names would allow
    everyone to respond and remember.”
    !
    Maya Lin
    

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12. It would be an interface, between our world and the
    quieter, darker, more peaceful world beyond. I chose
    black granite in order to make the surface reflective and
    peaceful. I never looked at the memorial as a wall, an
    object, but as an edge to the earth, an opened side. The
    mirrored effect would double the size of the park, creating
    two worlds, one we are a part of and one we cannot enter.
    

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14. plasticity
    

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18. short term memory
    

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19. short term memory
    

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20. 7 ± 2
    

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21. • puppy
    • toad
    • bull
    • steer
    • rabbit
    • buffalo
    • camel
    • wolverine
    • ape
    • parakeet
    • deer
    • dingo
    • badger
    

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22. short term memory exercise
    

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23. • Kangaroo
    • Koala
    • Penguin
    • Wallaby
    • Dolphin
    • Octopus
    • Badger
    • Dingo
    • Zebra
    

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24. • Quail
    • Rabbit
    • Rooster
    • Salmon
    • Shark
    • Starfish
    • Tiger
    

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25. working memory
    

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26. Sandbox
    working memory
    

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27. Tool kit
    working memory
    

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28. Juggling
    working memory
    

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29. Operating System
    working memory
    

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30. Multitasking = Stress
    working memory
    

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31. Goal
    working memory
    

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32. Long term memory
    

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33. Long term memory
    

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34. Implicit memory
    

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35. Explicit memory
    

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36. memories are built by
    encoding and retrieving the
    present and the past.
    

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37. encoding
    

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38. Elaborative encoding
    

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39. Retrieval
    engram
    

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40. working
    memory
    long term
    memory
    sensory
    system
    executive function
    temporary storage
    consolidation
    retrieval
    Top down control
    bottom up information
    

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41. Clivil Wearing
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y
    

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42. Frontal lobe
    Parietal lobe
    medial temporal lobe
    occipital lobe
    

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43. Cereberal cortex
    

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45. Santiago Ramon y Cajal
    

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47. dendrites
    cell body
    axons
    terminal
    information
    flow
    receptive
    transmitting
    

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48. Golgi’s drawings
    

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57. “The image (imperfect as it is) which seems to me
    best suited to convey the nature of that specific sense
    is that of a telescope, a telescope pointed at time,
    Marcel Proust, 1922
    

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58. for a telescope renders visible for us starts invisible to
    the naked eye, and I have tried to render visible for us
    stars invisible to the naked eye, and I have tried to
    render visible to the consciousness unconscious
    phenomena, some of which, having been entirely
    forgotten are situated in the past.”
    

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59. In search of personalized time
    http://i-s-o-p-t.com/
    

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60. System to help remember an event
    or memory
    you
    

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61. Sophie Calle, Last seen
    

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65. Francis Alys, Re-enactment, 2000
    

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69. Jeremy Deller, The Battle Of Orgreave, 2001
    

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74. The image ... stuck in my mind and for years I wanted to
    find out what exactly happened on that day with a view to
    re-enacting or commemorating it in some way.
    

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75. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the strike, like a
    civil war, had a traumatically divisive effect at all levels of life in
    the UK. Families were torn apart because of divided loyalties,
    the union movement was split on its willingness to support the
    National Union of Mineworkers, the print media especially
    contributed to the polarization of the arguments to the point
    where there appeared to be little space for a middle ground.
    So in all but name it became an ideological and industrial
    battle between the two sections of British society. (Deller 2002,
    p.7.)
    

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