Delicious Memories
Workshop designed and facilitated by Kristine Diekman and Laura Nova
"Delicious Memories" is an intergenerational storytelling workshop and media art installation that brings together older and younger New Yorkers to tell and connect stories utilizing craft and interactive technology. The installation and the performance stitches delicious stories together into a sonic multi-sensory communal tablecloth. The project draws on lived experiences through sensorial prompts about “delicious memories”, those highly somatic and multi-modal experiences that are deeply embedded in our bodies. The experience of physically crafting creates a connection that activates and sustains dialogues between generations. While the project employs traditional craft techniques, it integrates them into contemporary digital technologies.
The creative embroideries that the participants crafted were incorporated with electronics into a tablecloth which was exhibited as a popup in the Essex Market in NYC, a marketplace over 100 years old that houses diverse vendors. Nova and Diekman were subsequently invited to install Delicious Memories at ISEA 2022 in Barcelona as part of the International Symposium on Electronic Art where hundreds of visitors interacted playfully with the stories.
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
Essex Market PopUp 2021
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022
ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Barcelona, 2022