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This interactive experience explores how the objects of our lives gain significance through use, connection, and context. It emphasizes how these relationships are largely invisible until we name and define them. While computer vision systems can be trained to recognize the shapes, surfaces, and patterns of objects, the meanings attached to them move through memory and experience in ways that exceed algorithmic understanding. By exposing the details and omissions produced through digital translation, we consider the space between recognition and understanding.
Use your computer controls to navigate.
LEFT/RIGHT takes you through the repository.
UP/DOWN changes your view.
Go all the way in to read detailed insights.
Concept/Direction by Megan Young
Web Development by Dyllan Evans
Technology Support by Leonardo Selvaggio
Assistant Narrative Design by Alexandria Young
Consider these digital archives not as a fixed collection of things, but as a network of stories and relationships extending beyond the limitations of code, lens, and screen.
The title carries related meanings across media, design, information technology, performance, and community archiving. Line Notes can refer to notes written in the margins, records of revision, or the differences between a source and its reproduction. A line note marks the space between intention and action, between what was remembered and what was recorded, between what was meant and what was made. It points toward the gaps, negotiations, and translations that shape how meaning moves through the world.
In three-dimensional modeling, lines and polygons define the structures through which machines interpret form. The digital artifacts encountered here were created through photographic and volumetric scanning processes that translate physical objects into computational models. Along the way, details shift. Surfaces become textures. Shadows become data. Objects emerge through incomplete geometries, environmental conditions, and computational approximations. What appears solid is, in many ways, an interpretation.
Archives operate through similar acts of translation. Institutional collections organize knowledge through systems of classification. These structures help preserve and retrieve information, but they cannot fully account for the meanings that emerge through lived experience. The stories attached to these objects do not explain them so much as place them in relation—to people, places, legacies, and moments that exceed categorization.
The materials gathered here are annotations of significance and form. Together, they suggest that meaning does not reside solely within an object or its digital representation, but in the exchanges they inspire. Some of those connections can be documented. Others remain partial, shifting, or unresolved. Like the objects themselves, they continue to change each time they are remembered, shared, and encountered anew.
Concept/Direction by Megan Young
Web Development by Dyllan Evans
Technology Support by Leonardo Selvaggio
Assistant Narrative Design by Alexandria Young
This project is made possible through generous support from Assembly for the Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Baldwin Wallace University, West Shore Community College, and through an Indiana University Research Micro Grant.