Digital Humanities as Memory Work: Memory Eternal as a Virtual Site of Mourning

Named for the Ukrainian Orthodox prayer for the dead, the Canadian feminist Decameron Collective's Memory Eternal | Вічная Пам'ять explores trauma and remembrance. Designed for the Oculus Quest 2, this feminist digital sandbox storytelling project by a group of nine women scholars from Canada reflects on grief at the personal and collective scales, elaborating on the losses of the pandemic and war. In a 7 minute video, our project showcase will explore the work’s forms and themes, providing an overview of the seventeen works which populate the digital space, and will contextualize it within overlapping frames of Digital Humanities and research creation, e-literature, and interactive documentary.