Wind of Virtual Memory
Lin Ke
林科
Production date
2013
Object Detail
Media
video (colour, sound)
Measurements
1 min loop
Notes
‘Virtual Memory’, in computer speak, refers to an operating system’s memory management capability, an application that uses hardware and software to compensate for physical memory shortages by temporarily transferring data from random access memory (RAM) to disk storage. But Lin Ke thinks that in our age of augmented reality and ‘fake news’, Photoshop creates ‘virtual memories’. In this computer-generated HD video, he has created a ‘sail-like’ greyscale shape using Photoshop editing free transformation tools and placed it, as if being blown by the wind, against a generic background of vivid green grass and blue sea and sky. The evocative sound track of a sail flapping in the wind adds to the somewhat disorienting collision of the apparently ‘real’ and the virtual.
Accession number
2015.614