Recall - Post-Encounter Memory Logging Tool

Recall is a reflective logging tool for recording what remains after an encounter.

The Concept:

It does not analyze artworks, generate interpretations, or evaluate responses. Instead, it preserves trace—what was noticed, remembered, or registered after attention has passed. Recall treats memory as data without forcing it into explanation.

What the App Does:

  • Records observations after an encounter: Captures what you remember noticing without analysis or judgment
  • Preserves time, duration, and contextual conditions: Documents the factual circumstances of the encounter
  • Separates memory from interpretation: Maintains a clear boundary between what was observed and what it might mean
  • Maintains entries without ranking or analysis: Stores records as neutral data points, not conclusions

Key Principles:

Entries are not scored, corrected, or resolved. They are simply stored as factual records of perception, duration, and aftermath. The tool exists to support disciplined reflection, not insight production.

How to Use It:

  1. Complete an encounter or session
  2. Enter what you remember noticing—nothing more
  3. Save the entry as a record, not a conclusion

What Makes It Different:

Recall does not tell you what it means. It ensures that what occurred is not lost. Rather than generating insights or conclusions, it creates an archive of attention itself—a record of what registered before language, analysis, or interpretation took over.

Purpose: A preservation system for the raw materials of perception, maintaining the integrity of immediate experience without collapsing it into meaning.

Museum of OneRegistered Archive and Independent Arts Research Institute & Scholarly Publisher
Advancing Post-Interpretive Criticism — a philosophy of art grounded in restraint, presence, and moral proximity.

Dorian Vale · ORCID: 0009-0004-7737-5094 · ISNI: 0000000537155247
ISBN Prefix: 978-1-0698203 · ISSN: 2819-7232 · Registered Publisher: Library & Archives Canada
Contact: research@museumofone.art
Journal: The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism
Library: Museum of One Archival Library
Vol. I (978-1-0698203-0-3) · Vol. II (978-1-0698203-1-0) · Canada, 2025
OCLC Numbers: Museum of One (1412305300) · The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism (1412468296)

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Theories: Stillmark · Hauntmark · Absential Aesthetics · Viewer-as-Evidence · Message-Transfer · Aesthetic Displacement · Misplacement · Art as Truth · Aesthetic Recursion

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