Origin of Thought — How Will We Remember?.

Memory has always been shaped by the technologies that hold it, from oral traditions and storytelling to photography and digital archives. Each era builds its own systems that determine what is preserved and what fades. Today, Artificial Intelligence marks a new rupture: as machines are trained on our cultural archives – images, languages, and stories, they are not only storing the past but actively reshaping its meaning. This raises urgent questions about authorship, ownership, and the politics of remembering in an age where memory is increasingly mediated by algorithms.

This session brought together artists, thinkers, and practitioners to engage with this shift through a workshop, panel, and performance. Moving from hands-on making to critical discussion to embodied expression, the evening explored what it means when machines begin to hold memory – what we lose, what we retain, and what new forms of remembering might emerge.