Please note that this project is not part of the actual programme for PSi #17. It is given as an artistic example of recent '2.0' interpretations of the Camillo theme. 

At the dawn of the digital era, Robert Edgar created Memory Theatre One (1985), a memory theatre that lives inside the computer. The user can travel through a series of architectural spaces to encounter texts and symbols ranging from quotations from postmodern philosophers to biographical info of Edgar himself. The user is invited to combine these pieces of stored memory to create the Theatre. Edgar’s website offers a demonstration.

According to Ben Davis, Memory Theatre One can be seen as a metaphor of how the mind stores and accesses memory: “All computers are memory machines. That they store words and pictures with equal facility by translating them into binary code makes them by nature the engine for painting and poetry synthesis. How to recall the sense and forms creates interactive theatre” (Davis 1985). But Davis acknowledges that this is not just a metaphor “but a kind of aesthetic environment designed to deliver the user into the complex world of the present. To re-learn the properties of the engaged mind so damaged by massive doses of non-interactive information spewing from the carcass of the industrial age.” Thus, Edgar's theatre is where the computer becomes a place to perform memory and, eventually, identity.

References
Ben Davis, The Age Of Computer Art (1985), this article is available on Robert Edgars website.
www.robertedgar.com