Lorie Novak
MOBILIZING MEMORY: WOMEN WITNESSING
My Random Interference project is included in this exhibition in Istanbul curated by Isin Önol and Ayse Gül Altinay.
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During the course of the exhibition, I will be adding images from the Turkish media and international press. The ever changing collection of images can be viewed online and in the galleries at DEPO.
Link to exhibition catalogue
I’m ready to put my migraines out in the world.
100migraines has launched.
Estadio Nacional, Santiago
I have been in Chile since Sunday with my research group “Women Mobilizing Memory” – scholars, artists, friends from NYC, Santiago, and Istanbul. We spent 5 days in Chile visiting memorial sites and celebrating the election of Michelle Bachelat. Now I am on the beach in Concon, 2 hours from Santiago trying to digest it all. Yesterday we visited the soccer stadium where prisoners were taken after the coup on 9.11.73 until the end of November when the stadium was need to play soccer (!). It was an overwhelming experience which I cannot put into proper words yet, so I choose these photos. 
A section of the seats remain as they were.
In the bowels of the stadium we are shown where the prisoners were kept. Our guide has led the fight almost single-handed to preserve this site.
Memoir, A “Google Now” For Photo Memories, Is An App That Helps You Remember The Past | TechCrunch.
Thanks to the ubiquitous spread of smartphones, and the ease of photo-taking they bring, our photo galleries have become filled with what are almost like disposable memories. We snap and share, but then never return and reminisce. New York-based Memoir, a new app… more
I just finished posting to my Community Collaborations blog about this fantastic piece in the Lens Blog: Gordon Parks’s Harlem Family Revisited by John Edwin Mason and Jesse Newman.
The photo essay appeared in the March 8, 1968 issue of LIFE which is online in its entirety via Google books. In reading the lens blog article and viewing the slide show I did not have a memory of seeing this essay even though I was reading LIFE magazine religiously at that time. Seeing it now, I think how could my family not have talked about this? As has happened many times before, I am struck at how sheltered I was growing up. But then I looked at the essay in the LIFE issue online and seeing it as I saw it in 1968, I remembered it! Black inner city poverty (and so much else) was so foreign to my world in suburban LA that LIFE was how I learned about the world beyond me. And I learned it through pictures. I cannot help but think that my weekly journeys with LIFE led to many of the life choices I made.
!!! just reblogging…
Holograms of Holocaust survivors let crucial stories live on
History preserved: As the aging Holocaust survivor population dwindles, USC scientists scurry to create life-size 3D holograms that can answer viewer questions through Siri-like voice-recognition technology.
Things I am reading/watching online that I may want to come back to…
Digital Diary: Does Technology Replace Memory or Augment It? – NYTimes.com.
Reshaping Beauty – AlJazeera The Stream
… “models as human hangers”
.. ” there are ways to push back… make our own media…telling our stories.”
to be continued
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust
Marianne Hirsch
So excited to have made the cover image.
It’s an amazing book bringing together Marianne’s important writings on postmemory. Her writings have influenced me tremendously and I learn so much when she writes about me.
What a name.
Millions of documents containing details about victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution during World War II still exist today. Through the World Memory Project, you can help make these victims’ records searchable online and restore the identities of people the Nazis tried to erase from history, one person at a time.
via World Memory Project.
