// remember yourself!

Buildings are commonly declared as memorials without any meaning of personal and individual matters. And because people can't identify themselves or build up a connection with them, they won't remember any of them. This clearly causes the purpose of a memorial to fail. But people's desire to remember individual and personal things is growing, when everybody's memories are vanishing in the flood of the digital reality and a loss of analogue personality occurs.

In order to give that desire a lasting satisfaction, I created „ME:MORIAL“.

This project shall create remembrance. Remembrance of personally important things between you and me that doesn’t care about governmental restrictions. With „ME:MORIAL“ you can transform every object into a representation of your most personal memories, stories, emotions or relationships that will last forever.

By submitting a „ME:MORIAL“ application-profile with your story (at iamjohannes.com/memorial), you have the opportunity to generate and receive (production costs: 30 €) your individual „ME:MORIAL“ enamel sign, which you can mount to your specified place and this way, create your own, very personal memorial.

http://memorial.iamjohannes.com

background-information The design of the plate is based on the official plate (Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield) for international marking of collectively valuable objects in terms of the ‘Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict’ (wiki) from 1954. Labelled objects are memorials then and “The convention defines a protective sign to facilitate the identification of protected cultural property during an armed conflict.”. The access to the profile pages is limited to users, who are on site only, in order to create an awareness about the meaningful connection of the digital and analogue world.This respect and atmosphere shall be assigned to each “ME:MORIAL”.

This project was conceived and developed by Johannes Gierschner in the Advanced New Media Class teached by Prof. Joachim Sauter & Prof. Jussi Ängeslevä at the University of the Arts Berlin in summer 2012.

I AM JOHANNES iamjohannes.com memorial[at]iamjohannes.com