Sean Smuda's Memory Zero Project Explores Intergenerational Trauma Through Digital Collage

Sean Smuda's Memory Zero initiative explores how the trauma of warfare and societal divisions stifles memory across generations. By creating drawn representations from familial narratives, the project connects these stories with image and text searches to reflect their historical contexts. This approach interweaves personal and historical aspects into a continuum, aiming to enrich the emotional landscape. Smuda focuses on family stories from England and Poland surrounding World War I. The project was featured in ARTMargins, Volume 12, Issue 1, published on March 15, 2023, and can be accessed through MIT Press. Utilizing a digital collage technique, it seeks to establish a historical framework that transcends individual elements. The complete article is available via MIT Press, including a DOI.