{"id":4820,"date":"2026-05-16T14:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/?page_id=4820"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:21:23","slug":"joelle-mctigue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/joelle-mctigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Joelle McTigue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\">The Archive Dreams Us: Where Light Remembers Wrongly, Seventeen Haiku<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>by Joelle McTigue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joelle Mctigue, The Archive Dreams Us: Where Light Remembers Wrongly, Seventeen Haiku\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UjJUVimeIMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Archive Dreams Us: Where Light Remembers Wrongly, Seventeen Haiku<\/em>&nbsp;gathers passages that trace how archives filter the past through systems of digital storage, language, and algorithmic memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">The poems move through three states: dataset, prompt, and memory, treating history not as a stable record but as something continually rewritten through selection, circulation, and omission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">The work exists as a digital text installation&nbsp;<strong>(archive state \/ 01)<\/strong>&nbsp;presented in the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ricardobodini.com\/compost_terrapreta\/\"><u>Compost^ pavilion<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;within&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thewrong.org\/\"><u>The Wrong Biennale<\/u><\/a>, a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/joellemctigue.com\/the-archive-dreams-us\"><u>self-contained digital artifact<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;(<strong>archive state \/ 02)<\/strong>&nbsp;presented at Tell.Me Symposium, and as printed matter&nbsp;<strong>(archive state \/ 03)&nbsp;<\/strong>that is a part of the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/image.museum\/on\/tsundoku-art-book-fair-2026\/\"><u>Tsundoku Art Book Fair<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;hosted at the International Centre for the Image by PhotoIreland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">Across contexts, language appears in fragments and moves through shifting states of legibility. Portions surface, redact, reorder, or withdraw entirely. The digital artifact operates continuously and cycles through clarity, drift, omission, and blackout, reflecting how archives shape memory through constraint rather than preservation. Access remains partial. No complete version is ever revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tell.Me-Symposium-Joelle-McTigue-Cover-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tell.Me-Symposium-Joelle-McTigue-Cover-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tell.Me-Symposium-Joelle-McTigue-Cover-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tell.Me-Symposium-Joelle-McTigue-Cover-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tell.Me-Symposium-Joelle-McTigue-Cover-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Tell.Me-Symposium-Joelle-McTigue-Cover-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/tell-me2026-exhibition\/\">&lt;&lt;&lt;Tell.Me Exhibition<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archive Dreams Us: Where Light Remembers Wrongly, Seventeen Haiku by Joelle McTigue The Archive Dreams Us: Where Light Remembers Wrongly, Seventeen Haiku&nbsp;gathers passages that trace how archives filter the past through systems of digital storage, language, and algorithmic memory. The poems move through three states: dataset, prompt, and memory, treating history not as a&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/joelle-mctigue\/\" class=\"gdlr-info-font excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4820\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.tellme-symp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}