During Memory Jam’s third session with  Antony Hall and Artrit Bytyçi participants worked on their ideas, concepts, and artworks.

Several works in progress were presented and received feedback from peers and mentors. More importantly, these works sparked new ideas, discussions, and possibilities through a process we like to call “crosspollination”.

We also followed up on our previously assigned networking activity. Young professionals from Kosovo and UK independently met with their peers virtually to work on joint assignments, collaborate on the upcoming zine project, and create connections for future collaborations. 

Antony presented a prototype of the digital exhibition and showcased how participants’ digital artworks could be overlayed into the real world through augmented reality (AR).

This project was made possible with support from the British Council.

Special thanks to Sekhment Institute for lending us the space at Sekhment Project Space.

The second session of Memory Jam was led by Mishka Henner and Antony Hall.

Mishka presented a short history of artist books. We began by ridding our minds about what a book could be. From a book as sculpture, furniture, conceptual art, printed matter, digital data, and all the way to a commentary on how we consume culture.

These seminal works were used as references and a starting point for the creation of Memory Jam’s own publication which seeks to integrate the physical (printed zine) and the virtual (digital artworks).

After an activity where we brainstormed in smaller groups, we brought ideas that could be applied for our zine project to a larger discussion. We explored concepts of memory and how it relates to time, memory loss, disintegration, instability, disappearance, distortion, destruction, connection, interconnection, etc.

During Antony’s workshop we experimented with augmented reality and placement of 3D virtual objects (that we had previously scanned) into the real world.

This project was made possible with support from the British Council.

Special thanks to Fondacioni 17 for lending us the space at Rezidenca17.

We kicked off our first session with lectures, presentations, activities, and workshops with Audrey Albert and Antony Hall. Two groups met IRL in Prishtina and Manchester simultaneously, and communicated virtually via online teleconference link.

Audrey presented a series of her works that linked physical objects to memory, especially how they relate to Chagossian and Mauritian cultures. They focused on the practice of storytelling through objects as well as exploring food memories as a different way of telling stories, especially among the diaspora, who often know home only in memories (and how cooking often becomes an act of resistance).

For the first session, each participant was asked to bring a physical object that is significant to them, and during the class exercise led by Audrey, they worked on a response about how it relates to memory.

Antony led a workshop in which the participants 3D scanned their object with various apps that used photogrammetry and/or LIDAR scanning.  

This project was made possible with support from the British Council.

Special thanks to Fondacioni 17 for lending us the space at Rezidenca17.