Transductive Operations

With the advent of video technology in the early 1970s, the relationship between technique and time began to raise critical questions concerning processes of memorization and historicization. This relationship changed according to a long genealogy of accumulated technological supports, such as writing, photography, radio, cinema, and television. These supports, often understood as prosthetic supports, have shaped our modes of knowledge retention and information transmission. Much like machine memory, human memory relies on input (experience), storage (the faculty to recall and remember experience), and processing (the conscious or unconscious act of processing experience). In this sense, both prosthetic and human memory offers a conception of time that is anchored in the layering and intermittence of these three concomitant functions. Central to input, storage, and processing is the retention of information by different means. We remember an event differently depending upon whether it is experienced live, mediated and shot on camera, written on a piece of paper, or shared orally with us. In other words, the means of memory retention are as important as the capacity to process experience; they structure the possibility of processing this information at a later stage.