INGA: Intelligent Networked Grave Archive

INGA: Intelligent Networked Grave Archive — Black box to hold the hologram displays. The idea of artist retrospectives and then public and private persona [that woman outed as a lesbian and andy warhol’s hospital coat pockets], authority, authored, control, authenticity, credibility — what we lose after death and burial.

AI — we may use a stand-in for ourselves but it could be one more in-tune with our psyche and one which we may have greater confidence in. we could even have a hand in its creation directly such as programming it. Also, since we are in fact made up of all the influences of our experiences, but our experiences are left as traces and memories, and we become a part of all the others with whom we interact, share experience — we become aspects of their memories, we become traces in their personalities. And so a storytelling AI, one that at first tells our stories, our memories, would go on to evolve our trace like other humans, but also could evolve to incorporate its own experiences with visitors into its stories, its memories. Beautiful propagation, interconnectedness.

Graveyards: memorials but not often archives. They can make for interesting material if we think of famous ones, public space, re-visitation like replayability.

Decaying bodies and shifting ashes — science, reliquaries, truth, voice after death — live-stream of decay (death-stream)

Autonomous Voice after death — Self archive rather than relying on ancestors, history, serendipitous chance

Network — we are connected now in life through networks AND we have the Internet of Things, natural evolution could be a network after death