{"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-2fcbf3e42efa07ebbe5ba3b266d33c82\">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-881402ff008aa979b924e23cf4ae8627 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-faa41974b209cc86aea4721c38468973 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-2dc02fd382bcbf24d9edd5bac7016cbd 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-8951d324258d969570bc9da0eef0ec55 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-eb5c308c3c3aa14b32cf3fceca0ab700 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}]}}