“Confabulation or You Can’t Hide Those Hippocampus Lies”
David Held 2024
Rolodex, Stepper Motor, Speakers, Microcontroller, Software
Running time: approx. 1 minutes 49 seconds
“A person who is confabulating is not lying. People who are confabulated are not aware that their memory is wrong, and they are not lying to manipulate or deceive other people. Rather, they are confident in the truth of their memories even when confronted with contradictory evidence. In psychology, confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world.” Wikipedia
In our current environment when “the truth” is bent by one’s preconceptions, dialogue is elusive. Our social/religious/cultural/political divisions are confabulated and there are divided sets of “memory”. But can the truth be ultimately told and who will ultimately write the her/history?
This sculpture, in dealing with the confusion of memory (or confabulation), is created by a voice processed through Artificial Intelligence filters creating new voices recalling a painful memory, (real or imagined?)“Confabulation or You Can’t Hide Those Hippocampus Lies”
David Held 2024
Rolodex, Stepper Motor, Teeth, Speakers, Microcontroller, Software
Running time: approx. 3 minutes 9 seconds
“A person who is confabulating is not lying. People who are confabulated are not aware that their memory is wrong, and they are not lying to manipulate or deceive other people. Rather, they are confident in the truth of their memories even when confronted with contradictory evidence. In psychology, confabulation is a memory error consisting of the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world.” Wikipedia
In our current environment when “the truth” is bent by one’s preconceptions, dialogue is elusive. Our social/religious/cultural/political divisions are confabulated and there are divided sets of “memory”. But can the truth be ultimately told and who will ultimately write the her/history?
This sculpture, in dealing with the confusion of memory (or confabulation), is created by a voice processed through Artificial Intelligence filters creating new voices recalling a painful memory, (real or imagined?)
Art With Held --- David Held 