How can new technologies transform, enhance or even replace the experience of water? What are the consequences of virtual experiences on the mind and the formation of memories? How similar can they be to real experiences?
These are just some of the themes addressed by Dornbracht Research Lab with Is Memory Data?, an experimental installation that permitted visitors to experience water as an interface – between people and technology, material and immaterial, real and virtual – in a ‘subversive’ approach: countering the virtual – dominated by technology that becomes exaggerated at times – with a physical space of simple, even provisional experience. A pause, a contrast that made the excursion between virtual and physical reality even more evident.