Ephemories is an interactive VR installation that was presented in several exhibitions in Germany and was a part of Räume 2 at the Berlin Art Week and at Tech Open Air Berlin in 2018. The installation projects a fictional and poetic vision of the future of travelling: By using a pillow after their trip, travelers are able to transfer their memories to this pillow and these memories will be printed as different senses and can be lived once again as souvenirs: smells, tastes, visuals, textures and sounds. The VR experience is a collection of visual memories that this pillow collected. The pillow has sensors that changes colors when visitors lay on it.
In today's reality, when traveling, we are prone to capture every exciting instant with digital gadgets without having in mind the vital necessity of experiencing the real and tangible. Reawakening traveling memories is about accessing an infinity of virtual archives. Ephemories envisions a new concept for memory preservation in the future of traveling. It seeks the real involvement of the traveler by showing how special those once-in-a-lifetime moments could actually be. It finds an abstract though tangible way to play with the senses and the memories that are stored in our brain and filtering only those ones that really matter.
In today's reality, when traveling, we are prone to capture every exciting instant with digital gadgets without having in mind the vital necessity of experiencing the real and tangible. Reawakening traveling memories is about accessing an infinity of virtual archives. Ephemories envisions a new concept for memory preservation in the future of traveling. It seeks the real involvement of the traveler by showing how special those once-in-a-lifetime moments could actually be. It finds an abstract though tangible way to play with the senses and the memories that are stored in our brain and filtering only those ones that really matter.
