Ida Lissner

Ida Lissner is a digital artist who works with world-building and the relationship between nature and technology through digitally generated imagery. She creates digital sanctuaries of interconnection that aim to reinvent our relationship with the natural world.

The artwork presents the materialization of imagining something after its disappearance. It questions what happens to a species once it is gone: What stories does it leave behind? How do we remember it?
Mnemosyne, or Parnassius mnemosyne, is a species of butterfly that has become extinct in many areas due to the destruction of its forest habitats. The species is named after the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, whose name derives from the Greek word mnēmē, meaning “remembrance” or “memory.” The ongoing disappearance of Parnassius mnemosyne could be proof that the species has already become the memory it was foretold to be.

“Mnemosyne”

2022