Encode/Store/Retrieve, a new group exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, draws together artworks primarily from museum's collection to explore low-tech forms of memory production from the past sixty years. The exhibition includes Binh Danh's Ancestral Altar #12 (2005), in which images of prisoners in Cambodia's Tuol Sleng prison are printed onto leaves through the proses of photosynthesis.
The sculptures, paintings, photographs, installations, and works on paper in Encode/Store/Retrive are organized into thematic groupings that reference the key processes underlying cognitive and computational models of memory — encoding, storage, and retrieval. Bridging conversations about digital, biological, institutional, and ecological memory, the artists in this exhibition provide us strategies to grapple with the emerging issues of our growing digital archive.
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