The starting point of this project was the discovery of my Italian grandfather's WWII archive and the love correspondence between my grandparents at that time.
The aim of "HBCBFTW" is to reactivate this archive through the use of Augmented Reality (AR), and to trigger a re-enactement of individual and collective memories through Augmented Postcards.
The starting point of this project was the discovery of my Italian grandfather's WWII archive and the love correspondence (mainly postcards) between my grandparents at that time.
The aim of the project is to reactivate this archive through the use of Augmented Reality (AR), and to trigger a re-enactement of individual and collective memories through Augmented Postcards. I am particularly interested in how this affects collective “memory” and how it impacts the organization of narratives.
This project attempts to reconstruct different stories through the fragments I collected alongside my research and the journey to Albania, and to address some aspects of Italy’s postcolonial heritage and Albania’s postcommunist present.
Inspired by my grandparents’ archival material and the documentation I have gathered during my research and journey throughout Albania, on the traces of this archive, I have decided to explore the stories through a non-linear narrative by means of data that can be accessed and activated through the Augmented Postcards.
AR App developed by transmatter.art
Work produced by Tirana Art Lab & Beyond Matter Eu
