Chris Groenveld
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Chris Groenveld's MPhil/PhD Art research project
"Never Again. Five Stars": Artistic Interventions and Ethical Engagement with Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age
This art practice-as-research project investigates the role of Tripadvisor as an unexpected digital repository of reflections on Holocaust memorial sites, focusing on user reviews of the Dachau concentration camp memorial. The research approaches these online reviews as valuable artifacts that provide insight into how traumatic histories are perceived and remembered in the age of social media.
The project consists of two interconnected artistic interventions:
- A physical archive that recontextualises and preserves thousands of Tripadvisor reviews of Dachau Memorial before their increased invisibility due to AI summaries and monetisation makes them publicly inaccessible.
- A board game, inspired by the writings of Georges Perec, that engages players in navigating the complex relationship between personal and collective Holocaust memory.
Supervisors
- Prof Michael Newman
- Dr Mischa Twitchin
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