The Images That Made Us, The Images That Set Us Free: Mapping an Emerging Field at the Edge of Memory, Emotion, and Self-Recognition

What does it take to truly recognize — and return to — ourselves, as our images multiply and our avatars arrive? Multidisciplinary artist and researcher Dasha Dare presents a map of an emerging field, built around her hypothesis that meeting one’s own eyes in an image made at a moment of emotional intensity can open a doorway to memory the body has stored but never resolved.