Memoryscape is a voice-activated, AI-assisted virtual reality data browser that visualises oral, video and image data from the Afghanistan War.
The system’s architecture uses a novel narrative-based framework derived from AI-assisted sentiment analysis to daisychain story elements via a multi-dimensional relational database. Pre-structured narrative portals, taken verbatim from participant records, provide entrypoints to the memory system.
The Project’s aesthetic framework facilitates cutting-edge developments in the way we imaginatively address the commemoration of the Afghanistan conflict by delivering a frontier artistic archive and display system. It demonstrates how users can interactively organise, explore and interconnect a heterogeneous range of digital material related to the experiences of defence force personnel. In explaining the processes of interactive dialogue and creative reassembly of data underlying this new form of remembrance, the project transforms our understanding of the way in which artistic and technological innovation can impact on Australia’s memorial culture.
The Memoryscape project is financially supported under the Australian Research Council’s Linkage funding scheme with Industry Partner Australian War Memorial.
ARC Project Investigators: Dennis Del Favero, Michael Thielscher, Baden Pailthorpe, Brian Dawson, Craig Stockings, Rhys Crawley and Robyn Van Dyk
ARC Programmers: Rafael Formoso, Dylan Shorten
Lead Designer: Andrew Yip
ARC Project Title: memorySCAPE: The commemoration of war using a database narrative framework
Project Funding: ARC LP180100080
2019-20