Transactive Memories

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Transactive Memories
Name Transactive Memories
Location Het Wilde Weg
Date 2024/07/17
Time 10:00—13:00
PeopleOrganisations Pamela Nelson
Type HDSC2024
Web Yes
Print No

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In response to an upcoming project by Dutch artist Anna Andrejew on the Organic Internet, I began to think what this term means to me and how I relate it to my practice. I began to think of the Organic Internet as being both part digital and part human, in the way I have described below. I will host a workshop where we materialise this system- both by looking at what is readily available information about ourselves online, and by entrusting another participant with a memory, intended only for them. A piece of information stored in another participant, encoded and then visualised.

  • duration: 3 hours
  • number of participants: approx.20/30
  • materials / tools: threads, fabric, pins, card, glue
  • what do participants need to prepare: nothing :)


Pamela Nelson is an artistic design researcher from Ireland, currently based in Amsterdam. For the last four years she has been looking into how slowness and feminist values can be inserted into the digital design process using embroidery and sewing circles as a tool.

Insta : @pnelsondesign Website : https://pnelsondesign.com/