Form: Shinji Toya

Please share your memory:

forgetting.online – a participatory art project by Shinji Toya

Digital media is often not programmed to forget; it holds and stores your information and makes your online decisions visible, traceable and recountable. The information can be stored and not deleted – potentially forever. forgetting.online is a website and a work of art that functions in the opposite way; it both shares and forgets personal memories by digital means.

Do you have a memory you would like to forget? Tell us about it by filling the form at the end of this page (*the submitted post will be published anonymously).

What happens after the submission?

After your submission, the content will be reviewed and, if approved, your memory will be shared as a post on the website (storage-un.it / forgetting.online) for the online world to view. And, the post will gradually fragment, as more visitors view and share it so that the view count increases. In the end, the memory will be digitally forgotten. This system explores an anti-viral system of forgetting, as it could erase the content of memory through multiple activities of sharing and viewing before the memory spreads online, proliferates and becomes virtually impossible to be forgotten.

The project is developed in support of arebyte Gallery.
For more details about the project please visit: http://cargocollective.com/stoya/forgetting-online

*Please note, this project is not intended to serve any effect of therapy, nor does the artist have any appropriate qualification for providing therapy.

Submission form

Text: please tell us about the memory you want to forget (no maximum word count; it can be a short text, like a few sentences)

I want to forget...*

Please note: if you mentioned any name of person or organisation in the text above, please could you replace the name(s) with anonymised or censored version(s)? Otherwise the artist will anonymise the information.

Any image corresponding the story (for example a photograph, screenshot, drawing or handwritten note that personally or symbolically relates to your memory): Optional

Please select your image to upload

Upload

(accepted files: jpeg, gif, png, pdf, tiff, psd: up to 15MB)

Email (Optional / this will not be disclosed to the public)

Your email

The artist would like you to:

confirm that the content(s) submitted (text and image) is owned by you, or you are allowed to give permission to the artist: Shinji Toya to use the content(s) for his work, or the content(s) is allowed to use by anyone.

agree to give the artist permission to use, modify, publish, circulate and make derivate works of the content(s) (if it is owned by you) for his art project forgetting.online.

confirm you are aged 18 or over, or able to give consent.
confirm that the submitted material(s) are not meant to cause any offence or defamation.

understand that any name of person or organisation will not be published on the website, and will be anonymised or censored in any other way. Also if the text or image you submitted includes any identifiable name or photograph with a face of a person, the artist will edit out or hide such details.

agree to that the personal and organisational information in the content(s) you have provided (name, recognisable parts of photograph, email address, and the IP address [that is automatically collected through the submission form by design]) will not be disclosed to the public. And the artist will anonymise the information above (except the email address) of the original content(s), before 12 months after the submission date. The email address may be used to contact you, should there be any need.

understand this form or the project is not intended to serve any effect of therapy, and the artist does not have any appropriate qualification for such practice.

By ticking the box below, could you please confirm that you understand and agree with what have been stated above?

Yes I understand and agree

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Should you have any question please contact: forgetting.online@shinjitoya.com
Shinji Toya

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