Name: Memory (W)Holes: Talk by Dr Caroline Molloy | Artist's panel discussion
Start: 2025-11-02T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-02T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Empress Place

Memory (W)Holes: Talk by Dr Caroline Molloy | Artist's panel discussion

Join Dr Caroline Molloy at Empress Place, followed by a panel discussion with pavilion artists Sarah Deane, Alan Knox and Heidi Reece
About this Event

Memory(W)Hole: The fallibility of Memory...

In this session, Memory (W)Hole: The Fallibility of Memory - Dr Caroline Molloy will introduce a tenet that emerged out of her PhD research that questions what happens to memory in the Age of Digital Photography; when the physical photograph can allegorically be created and recreated. How does this impact personal and collective memories?

She will then lead a conversation with pavilion artists Sarah Deane, Alan Knox and Heidi Reece, each of whom have developed work to either open or closed memory holes through digital and AI photographies.

Dr Caroline Molloy is the research lead for the School of Creative and Cultural Arts, at UCA Farnham and the MA Photography lead. She holds a PhD in Arts and Humanities, from Birkbeck, University of London, in the Centre for Photographic History and Theory, an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, as well as an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths University of London. Her research interests are focused on memory & belonging, and marginalised voices in both gender and post/decolonial colonial contexts.

This event is delivered by The Doughnut (W)Hole Pavilion, part of The Wrong Biennale 7th edition – the world's largest digital art celebration and a member of the International Biennial Association.

Taking its cue from the paradox at a doughnut's centre, The Doughnut (W)Hole brings together 14 international artists exploring how absences shape presence in our AI-driven age.

Artists: Maria Ahmed, Kasper Bergholt, Ben Millar Cole, Evangelia Danadaki, Sarah Deane, Sarah-Jane Field, Alan Knox, David Koh, Merve Kurtuluş, Duncan Petrie, Angel Qin, Heidi Reece, Sarah Sweeney, Min Jung Tsai.

Curated by Kim Shaw | Co-produced by Sarah-Jane Field

London Embassy: Hapax Living Room, 1–2 November 2025
Opening, artist talks, and panels with Dr Jane Boyer ([cloud] collective), Dr Caroline Molloy (School of Creative and Cultural Arts at UCA Farnham), Dr Madeline Yale Preston (British Centre of Photography), and delivering funding surgeries, Justin Hunt (Shifting Power, OU; Queen Mary's University).