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In “Be Here Now” family portraits, living family members who are geographically distant can be reunited in a ‘back to the future’ moment (New York Times Magazine, June 10, 2012). A Skype image is projected onto a background and virtual callers photographed with their flesh-and-blood kin (Clang 2012), showing how digital technologies bridge past/passing generations with future ones.
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Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2013). Productive Remembering and Social Action. In: Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8_1
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