New Memory Rescue

New memory rescue takes place in the 22nd Century as it chronicles the partially successful first attempts to archive human consciousness. Written as an experiment in spoken stream of consciousness transcribed by speech recognition software, then re-written, Lichty takes a cyber-Burroughsian stance toward Science Fiction. Borrowing from mid 20th Century writers like Lem, Heinlein, and Roddenberry, Lichty obliquely takes on politics and ecological issues in the world of The Archive, of which new memory rescue is a part. Abstraction, humor, and dystopian fiction collide in this novel drawn from quantum parallel universes where anything you may have considered has happened. If so, is new memory rescue fiction, or a documentary?

Patrick Lichty is an artist, writer, educator, and activist who deals with technology, culture and the role mediation has on shaping human cognition, politics and the way reality is shaped in the public imaginary. He has been involved in collectives such as Second front, The Yes Men, RTMark, Terminal Time , and Pocha Nostra. He is also a Herb Alpert/Calarts Fellow, a Fulbright finalist, and exhibitor at numerous bienniales and festivals like TED, Ars Electronica, Sundance, and the Venice and Yokohama Bienniales. He is an Assistant Professor of Animation and Multimedia at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi.