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In Memory Architecture, a surveyor travels to the north of Sweden to survey a site for the building of a new data centre. This systematic task of transforming the terrain into a digital model quickly becomes a desperate search for some kind of underlying structure of the surveyor’s surroundings.

Alexander Walmsley (UK, b. 1992) is a filmmaker and photographer. In his research-based practice, he investigates how our understanding of the earth is shifting, mediated by the new technological, environmental and social realities of the 21st century. His recent work has been shown at the Daejeon Biennale of Arts and Sciences, Tirana Art Lab, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Photographers' Gallery, and Athens Digital Art Festival. He was a commissioned artist for the Albanian pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Deloitte Photo Grant in 2023 and Istanbul 212 Photography Prize in 2021. He previously studied Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Geneva (CH), and is currently a lecturer at the Film University Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Germany, where is also undertaking an artistic PhD on the subject of real-time representations of the planet.