{
  "id": "memory-engine",
  "title": "Memory Engine",
  "slug": "memory-engine",
  "year_start": 2026,
  "year_end": null,
  "circa": false,
  "status": "active",
  "collections": [
    "systems",
    "scenes",
    "media"
  ],
  "themes": [
    "memory",
    "decay",
    "consent",
    "local-first",
    "participation",
    "grief",
    "archive"
  ],
  "summary": "A local-first room memory appliance where invitation, contribution, decay, retrieval, and revocation are part of the artwork's visible structure.",
  "medium": [
    "interactive system",
    "memory environment",
    "public appliance"
  ],
  "materials": [
    "camera",
    "microphone",
    "local storage",
    "UI",
    "consent logic",
    "retrieval flow"
  ],
  "stack": [
    "local-first architecture",
    "revocation logic",
    "participant memory flow",
    "decay-per-access design"
  ],
  "core_concepts": [
    "memory as designed behavior",
    "forgetting as ethical material",
    "revocability",
    "shared recollection"
  ],
  "body_relation": "participants contribute, revisit, revoke, and wear memory through use",
  "ethics": {
    "pii": "restricted / local",
    "consent": "explicit / revocable",
    "retention": "bounded / participant-aware / decay-oriented"
  },
  "provenance": "Current repo and Atlas node",
  "docs": {
    "repo": "https://github.com/bseverns/memory-engine",
    "atlas": "/atlas/n/memory-engine/",
    "notes": "/docs/legacy/memory-engine.md"
  },
  "media": {
    "images": [
      "/img/studio/memory-engine_hero.jpg"
    ],
    "video": [
      "/assets/video/memory-engine_demo.mp4"
    ],
    "audio": [
      "/assets/audio/room-tone_oral-fragment_01.mp3"
    ]
  },
  "related_ids": [
    "a-madman-wrapped-in-the-clothes-of-a-deadman",
    "bs-noise-thread",
    "human-buffer",
    "classhub"
  ],
  "quote": "Forgetting becomes an ethical material rather than a system failure.",
  "sort_order": 120
}