Damnatio Memoriae

Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:

Beyound critical writing and visual practise, this work is a software that analyzes images by itself and changes it based on face recognition patterns. This conceptual-virus, once opened, appends a black stripe on the mouth or eyes of every face found on each .jpeg of user's computer memory. It doesn't spread itself on other computers, only infects peoples memory - their photos - with the censorship symbol.

What kind of communication approach do you use?

This new communication approach, beyond Good and Evil, makes a surprise to the user. The infected user open some photos (maybe days after running the virus without knowing about that) and see all censored faces. Wow! Who did it? When? Why? People are not used to intelligent viruses which changes images. It gives more questions than answers and let them thinking. Radical communication thought cyberspace memories.

What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?

In our age, government censorship is becoming more and more used to control information and power maintanance. People can't read this or talk about that. This censorship-infection shows the user familiar people virtually censored by something that they even don't know what is.

Stimulate this debate is the main focus of the Damnatio Memoriae Virus, bringing power back to the people.

What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?

People are not used to read, or listen, with full attention, until we talk about them or what they are thinking. Use familiar faces from user's memory to express propositions is far away better than horny models. Questions are better than answers and imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?

It is not about show something to people, it is about show familiar people with something. People on their computer are usually confortable on their homes or work, in front of theis personal stuff and memories, such as photos and documents. This work get's there, on their face, changing his memories, impacting his thoughts.

Where and how do you intent do implement your work?

This work was implemented with processing.org in two days, after I first visit the memefest website, told by a friend. The work, as a trigger, is a program file with a nice icon, an .exe for windows, .bin for linux and .app for mac, but the process as consequences is the work at all.

Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)