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Tickets for the Afterlife Publication
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Visitors to the exhibition will be invited to collect their own set of 'tickets for the afterlife’ which detail some of the diverse practices and opinions surrounding death from around the world and throughout history.
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Tickets for the Afterlife installation
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Dr Audrey Samson's Goodnight Sweetheart which focuses on a ‘digital data funeral’ – capturing the process of data stored on devices such as USB and hard drives being embalmed.
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Artefacts from Professor Jayne Wallace’s Ongoingness project, will be demonstrated throughout the exhibition - they explore how digital memories can be stored in crafted objects
Exhibition
Love After Death
4 Nov 2019 – 9 Nov 2019
Regular hours
- Mon, 04 Nov
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tue, 05 Nov
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Wed, 06 Nov
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thu, 07 Nov
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Fri, 08 Nov
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sat, 09 Nov
- 10:00 – 16:00
Newcastle City Library
Address
- New Bridge Street West
- Newcastle upon Tyne
England - NE1 8AX
- United Kingdom
Love does not end when someone dies. Love evolves and takes on new forms, living on through technology, through the earth cradling our bodies and the memories which we keep in our hearts and on our devices. This pop-up will guide you through choices for your current and future legacy.
About
From photos to blog posts and diary entries, technology plays a key role in curating the precious experiences and memories we collect throughout our short lives. But what happens to this data when we die? With digital technology now so embedded in our lives, how do we deal with all the material of the departed in ways that respect their legacy, but don't completely overwhelm us?
In the future, a whole range of options may exist. From personal data embedded in physical-digital memory devices, to techno-home shrines, deletion rituals and reanimation options. You may even be able to have digital memorial tattoos and implants, employ a digital auditor and pre-record holograms. You could even set up funerals for virtual friends, or use a robotic body with personal data to recreate your personality.
The pop-up will help you chart the different ways that people in the past, present, future and far future dealt/ deal with death and dying. From the Egyptians, who believed that they held the keys to immortality, to the ghosts that we all hold in our machines - divine spectres that live in that space between pixel and memory.
The exhibition will end with a private view and panel of experts that explores the social, politics and economic implications of the future of death. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-death-is-here-its-just-not-evenly-distributed-tickets-77872636151 - November 9th (4pm - 7pm)
Love After Death takes place from Monday 4th to Saturday 9th November at Newcastle City Library and is part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Festival of Social Sciences.
