Svetlana Fenster
Memory changes its medium
From family lace to interactive systems
and satellite data.
Selected Projects
It doesn't remember
The lake does not keep its states. I keep them in a typology.
You Are Here
Lace grows under the viewer’s feet. Once they leave, the memory of them slowly unravels.
Nothing Personal
The system keeps running without us.
My Library of Unread Books
Books as repositories of unspoken memory and unrealized versions of the self.
Time
Home Inside
Family lace changes its material.
Unweaving Memory
AI turns family lace into shared machine memory.
Submitted
Everything is ready. Understanding not required.
Research
Solar Time, Lunar Time
Research · White Sea, Kiy Island · 2026–
The satellite keeps solar time, the tides keep lunar time. The island has no fixed size.
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Overwriting
Research framework · 2025–2026
Mediterranean memory as an autonomous system: material and digital layers of preserving, losing and rewriting.
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About
Svetlana Fenster is a Cyprus-based new media artist working with memory as an active system. Her professional background in IT has shaped her approach: memory changes its medium — from ceramic imprints to interactive systems and satellite data.
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