Resolution Study: Random Access Memory

Resolution Study:
Random Access Memory (RAM)

2021- 2022
Microscopic Video Essay with moving image, text, sound

Stills from Video of RAM

Stills from Video of RAM

Stills from Video of RAM

Stills from Video of RAM

Stills from Video of RAM

Stills from Video of RAM

This microscopic video essay, titled 'Random Access Memory,' weaves together scientific and fictional narratives. It aims to explore the intersection of precision and abstraction through vision resolution and memory, as experienced by humans and machines.

The storage mechanisms in computers closely resemble the memory processes in Hyperthymesia patients. This similarity lies in the fact that computer vision lacks a fundamental human ability: abstraction. Computers receive a matrix of pixels and do not understand the inherent meaning of an image. Teaching a machine to 'see'—to recognize not just a single face but any image depicting a human face—requires considering various factors. We must enumerate and store the pixels from all facial images. Therefore, deep learning doesn't actually enable computers to recognize faces. image classification is purely statistical and vastly differs from the way living beings with vision perceive images.

References:

^{[1] Funes the Memorious, Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges

[2] Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) , Ian Goodfellow , Yoshua Bengi, Aaron Courville

[3] The Boy Who Can't Forget (Superhuman Genius Documentary) | Real Stories. 2016. [film] Directed by B. Peel.

[4] A case of unusual autobiographical remembering, Elizabeth S Parker 1, Larry Cahill, James L McGaugh

[5] "梁文道：天堂真的是图书馆的模样吗？". Douban, 2017.

[6]"我記得所有的事——「超憶症」是特異功能還是大腦疾病？". Theinitium.Com, 2017

[7] Voice generator: https://texttospeechrobot.com/tts-player/}

Resolution Study: Random Access Memory (RAM)

Resolution Study:
Random Access Memory (RAM)