Abstract
This essay explores Chris Marker's 1997 CD-ROM, Immemory, to examine what is at stake in Marker's embrace of new media, specifically in the spatialization of memory into an intensive trajectory decided upon by the ambulatory movements of the user, and in the changed relation between technology, memory, and the archive. Contrary to those who view the ascendance of new media as provoking a crisis in the archive due to its governing tense of a perpetual present, this essay argues that digital media can provide new possibilities of organizing our relation to the past, and can generate exciting interfaces of personal and cultural memory.
Recommended Citation
Balsom, Erika
(2008)
"Que'est-ce qu'une madeleine interactive? Chris Marker's Immemory and the Possibility of a Digital Archive,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.289
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol1/iss1/4