INTERFACE (2023)

Homecoming, 2023, Public Works Administration, NYC, photos by Courtney Kinnare

Digital Video, 3D Rendering, TikToks, Jailbroken Amazon Kindle, Raspberry Pi

The great halls of servers and the many drives of online archivists may hold every digital file, but the library is so vast that any individual file is lost in the noise. Without reminders of their existence, or active search efforts, old posts and digital ephemera sit in the library, not totally gone, but crumbling away. Sites like MySpace have begun deleting any content from before 2016. X has started deleting inactive accounts. The library is simply too big now. The built environment suffers the same fate: a statue engraved into a building whose name isn’t known anymore, a plaque commemorating something lost in the collective memory, infrastructure built to last for an eternity hollowed out and crumbling apart, abandoned factories and shopping malls.

The renderings featured in these works envision a merging of the post-industrial built environment with sleek, modern technological design to construct an interface that holds images that may soon also be a fading collective memory. For a brief moment, these images live, but are distorted by the device used to translate them from data into reality. The interface is limited, the memory incomplete. Someday, it too, will be forgotten.

This work reinterprets my 3D rendering series: