LITLIT Panel: Collective Memory in Digital Spaces

How do we create memory in the digital age? Presented in partnership with UCLA Humanities, Collective Memory in Digital Spaces is a conversation dedicated to the technological tools that are being utilized to tell stories, build worlds, and create digital spaces that can reflect our real lives and the collective experience. Led by Daniel Snelson, this conversation will feature digital artists and designers Alice Bucknell, Yara Feghali, Sadia Quddus, and Whisper. Join us for a conversation that will dive into the positives of creating virtual containers and the artistry behind it.

Join us June 6 + 7 at LITLIT for this and other panels! Held at SCI-Arc, LITLIT: The Little Literary Fair is a free festival celebrating the West Coast Literary Arts, presented by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about the presses, publishers, and the whole weekend here!

Collective Memory in Digital Spaces will take place on Sunday, June 7, at 11 a.m. at the SCI-Arc Library.

Alice Bucknell is a North American artist, writer, and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work explores the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relationships, and forms of knowledge. Bucknell’s work has been exhibited widely, including at recent and upcoming exhibitions with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Copenhagen Contemporary, the Oslo Munch Triennale, HEK, EPFL Pavilions, the MUDAC, and their first museum solo show at Kunsthalle Prague. Previous shows and collaborations include presentations with Serpentine Arts Technologies, the Venice Biennale, Medialab Matadero, Frieze × Getty PST, and the L.A. Public Library. Their video game The Alluvials was acquired by SFMOMA, making it the first video game to enter the museum’s permanent collection. They are faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, where they teach courses on worlding, video games, and philosophies of technology.

Yara Feghali is a French Lebanese designer working at the intersection of architecture, video games, and immersive technologies. She is a design faculty at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, and the creative director of Folly Feast Lab, co-founded with Viviane El Kmati and based in Los Angeles. Through world-building and storytelling, they design immersive and interactive experiences, applications, software, design tools, and video games around queer identity, sustainability, and technology. Their XR work has been part of XR2C2 Cannes, MoMA AR, Onassis ONX, MIT Open Documentary Lab, FIBER Festival Amsterdam, A+D Museum Los Angeles, L.A. Forum, Ars Electronica + Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Austria, Architectural Digest, and more.

Daniel Scott Snelson is a writer, editor, and archivist working as an associate professor in the departments of English and Design Media Arts at UCLA. His online editorial work can be found at PennSound, Eclipse, UbuWeb, Jacket2, and the EPC. Published books include Elden Poem, Full Bleed: A Mourning Letter for the Printed Page, Apocalypse Reliquary: 1984–2000, Radios, EXE TXT, Epic Lyric Poem, and Inventory Arousal with James Hoff, and his most recent publication, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats, which examines the networked afterlives of media-reflexive works of art and letters in search of contingent methods for reading ordinary digital collections.

Sadia Quddus is a media artist and designer based in Los Angeles. Her work investigates entangled relationships between the corporeal, virtual, and territorial body through the lens of Islamic belief systems and the infrastructure of empire. Sadia holds an MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design, and will soon earn her MFA in media art at UCLA Design Media Arts (DMA). She is a 2025 Supercollider SciArt Ambassador. Her work has been screened by e-flux and ArteEast, and exhibited at David Horvitz’s 7th Avenue Garden, Killscreen, CultureHub at the Reef, the New Wight Gallery, the Broad Art Center, the Sol Koffler Gallery, and elsewhere.

Whisper is an artist and hacker based in Los Angeles working across poetry, performance, software, and hardware. She is co-founder of New Art City virtual art space and works collaboratively on the digital infrastructure projects Resonant.love and Secret Server Club. Her work has been supported by Eyebeam, NEW INC, LACE, and Gray Area.