Title:

False Memory Archive: The Loftus Collaborations, 2012-2013.

 

Description:

A series of works developed with the experimental psychologist Elizabeth Loftus and her team of researchers at University of California, Irvine. Please see titles underneath photographs/videos above and additional information below.

 

Medium:

- 6 x B&W photographs

- Framed Fax 

- 35 mm slides

- Life Magazine from 1963

- Digital video

 

Size:

Photographic prints: 1040/740/50mm

Framed fax: A1 size

Life Magazine display case: 1200/560/550mm

Video and slide projections variable.

 

Archival Information

6 photographs are printed on Ilford Archival B&W Silver Gelatine paper, mounted on foam board and in archival frames made by Jacksons. 35mm slides - original digital files will be provided in case replacements are needed. A1 framed fax is printed on Fuji Archival Matte and mounted on foamex.

 

Current Packing details:

All soft packed in bubble. 

Digital files, the Life magazine and slides are wrapped and packed in cardbox: 410/410/410mm

Framed fax: 900/635/50mm 

 

Additional information:

All of the Loftus works are sold together as one body of work. They include exhibited works:

- 6 x photographs of Loftus & team performing Heimlich.

- 1x framed fax explaining who Loftus is. 

- 1 x video of Loftus & team reciting a submission to the false memory archive

- 1 x video and slide series that uses images from Loftus' 'Red Datsun' eyewitness testimony experiment from 1978 that led to the 'misinformation effect' paradigm. 

- 1 x original copy of Life Magazine from 1963. Photographers captured the moment that a teenage Elizabeth Loftus (nee Fishman) ran away from her family home as it was burning down due to a forest fire in LA. This magazine was displayed alongside the other works described above at Talbot Rice and Carroll/Fletcher.

 

There are a series of other non-exhibited works made with loftus that are available on request.