This image is generated from 42 photographs compared for areas of difference using the Automated Digital Photo Collage program.

The contemporary global digital culture, with its ephemeral images on glowing screens, has fractured previous realities. Our sense of self, community and cultural identity are increasingly dependent on the digital presentations we create. This uneasy relationship we sense with the ephemeral nature of bits and our dependence on evolving hardware to retrieve this growing portion of ourselves is a new tension our culture is experiencing. With an algorithmic sense of humor, the Automated Digital Photo Collage visualizes the passage of time through an additive process that overwrites and alters the legibility of the image to simultaneously hold impressions of many moments and obscure details similar to human memory.