Mnemosys v0.3 (2026)
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Mnemosys v0.3 is a virtual reality experience about an imagined future simulation that uses photogrammetry to reconstruct past places from digital and spatial archival data sources. The narrative follows the simulation’s attempt at reconstructing the artist’s grandmother’s house in Al-Hindawiyah neighbourhood of Jeddah after the neighborhood’s change.
Operating as a speculative recovery system, the work processes spatial fragments to stabilise them within a provisional three-dimensional environment. As the simulation unfolds, the structure of the house repeatedly fails to fully reappear, leaving only partial objects and unstable architectural remnants. The experience asks what it would mean for a system to hold fragments with care, rather than reduce them to data points or evidence. In this sense, it operates as a kind of “what if” or a reorientation of computational reconstruction toward something more benevolant.
Developed by Alhimiary, at Delfina Foundation, during a period of research into digital memory practices, forensic architecture, and the circulation of witness images following urban redevelopment projects. The work borrows the visual language of forensic reconstruction and uses interface-based narration as a digital fabulation praxis.
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