Insufficient Memory

Authors

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Author Bio

Sean Fader is currently an Assistant Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Department of Photography and Imaging. Fader received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his MA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and his BFA from the New School in New York City.

Abstract

Artist Statement

Insufficient Memory examines a window of time from 1999 to 2000, when the Hate Crimes Prevention Act was first being debated in Congress (and not passed). In 2018 I discovered an old Sony Digital Mavica which was the first commercially successful digital camera sold in 1999 to 2000. This camera was considered groundbreaking technology because it shot ⅓-of-a-megapixel images to a 3.5-inch floppy. I began thinking about what was overlooked, invisible, or erased in the same moment as that digital camera began to revolutionize imaging and visibility.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Fader, S. (2025). Insufficient Memory. International Journal of Human Rights Education, 9(1). Retrieved from https://repository.usfca.edu/ijhre/vol9/iss1/12