This series of real-time generative artworks explores the dynamics of digital memory through the interplay of sorting and scrambling algorithms. Developed using C++ and GLSL, the works operate as autonomous systems in which allocated memory is continuously loaded, ordered, and blurred. During these moments of heightened structural vulnerability, the data undergoes gradual corruption and degradation, reflecting the instability inherent in processes of preservation and recall.
As the system approaches a threshold of maximum order or complete entropy, the memory space is released and reallocated, initiating a new cycle. This perpetual loop positions memory not as a static archive, but as a temporal, fragile process shaped by repetition, erosion, and renewal.
Minted on the Tezos blockchain in September 2021, the project represents the culmination of an extended investigation into digital memory that began in July 2018. Across its multiple iterations, the work has served as both a research framework and a point of reference, influencing subsequent practices by other artists working with real-time systems and computational aesthetics.
Memory Studies 001 (ed. of 100). 09/2021
Memory Studies 002 (ed. of 10). 09/2021
Memory Studies 003 (ed. of 10). 10/2021
Memory Studies 004 (ed. of 10). 10/2021
Memory Studies 005 (ed. of 10). 10/2021
Memory Studies 006 (ed. of 10). 10/2021