Projects
Echoes of Remembrance
Echoes of Remembrance
A multi-sensory installation Exploring Memory and Dementia that uses augmented reality, spatial sound, and haptic feedback to explore the fragile, shifting nature of memory and dementia.
Audiences actively engage by uncovering and contributing memory fragments, creating a living artwork that evolves over time. Using paper and clay forms as memory vessels, the work is expanded through augmented reality, spatial sound, and subtle haptic feedback, allowing fragments of image, text, and audio to appear, shift, and disappear. At the centre of the installation is a Memory Chandelier, where suspended, animated fragments echo the delicate and transient nature of remembering.
Experiment
£20,000
Exploring memory, fragility, and dementia through a combination of physical sculpture and digital technology.
Aims of the project
The project invites audiences to move, listen, and interact, becoming active participants rather than passive viewers. Visitors can contribute their own memory fragments, such as handwriting, images, or whispered recordings, which are carefully integrated into the evolving artwork.
Each presentation becomes site-responsive, building a layered archive of personal and collective memory shaped by its audience and location.
This research and development phase focuses on prototyping and testing how these technologies can sensitively convey the lived experience of memory loss.
Meet the artists
Glenda Rolston
Lead artist
she/her
Glenda Rolston is a multidisciplinary artist and arts facilitator based in Limavady, Northern Ireland. With a background in graphic design and a BA in Fine and Applied Art, she creates delicate three-dimensional drawings from Japanese rice paper and thread.
Her work explores memory and identity, influenced by her experience of dementia care. Glenda has exhibited in both solo and group shows and has worked extensively in arts administration and community engagement, developing creative projects and participatory workshops. She is now expanding her practice into immersive, collaborative experiences incorporating sound, narrative, and sensory elements.
Mal Duffin
XR Developer
he/him
Mal Duffin is an XR developer specialising in mixed reality experiences and interactive systems. In this project, he will lead on the technical development of the AR components, including image recognition, animation integration, and ensuring a stable, responsive user experience across devices.
