Emily Bernstein

Emily Bernstein is a multimedia artist based in The Hague, she explores the instability of collective memory and the ethical considerations of retelling histories using a mix of analogue, digital, and artificial media. Her work questions the reliability of memory and the ethical implications of using AI to reconstruct personal and collective histories. By employing text-to-image and facial-stitching technologies such as DALL-E 2 and MyHeritage Portrait animation, Bernstein’s installation interrogates the ownership and accuracy of stories recreated through generative media. 

For Best of Graduates 2024, she presents For Anna, an immemory, a project that delves into the interplay of authenticity, artificiality, and memory by combining interview footage, oral histories, and AI-generated imagery to construct a narrative that both honors and challenges the past. The installation features a video and AI-generated photos that recontextualize interview clips to create a new narrative. This work highlights the tension between personal experiences and the artificiality of AI, urging viewers to question the reliability of memory and the stories they accept as truth.