In the Memory Theaters, Claudia Hart recites personal fables that hybrid Grimm's fairy tales with ghost stories and Gothic fiction, to create a haunting narrative about a digital artist trying to find her way in the alienating culture of high-end technologies. Hers is a world obsessed with the cult of  innovation, invested in eternal newness but otherwise an extension of a larger artworld where power, money, status, and adherence to a narrow insider code of ethics and behavior dominate. Estranged from the futuristic and success-driven world in which she finds herself, the Memory Theaters track Hart’s transformation of life into art, reflecting on generational trauma and her own psychological dissonance as she navigates the harsh political realities of the contemporary art world. Hart tells her stories against a backdrop of her projected 3D animations, while Martinez plays electric guitar. His dark and haunting music is rehearsed but improvised upon and processed live, setting the pace and mood of this powerfully emotional theatrical narrative.

Since the late 1980s, Claudia Hart, artist and Professor Emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has used 3D simulations technology to produce subversive works on identity and experience that cross the virtual and physical worlds. A mixed-reality artist, her art takes diverse shapes, from tangible installations and sculptures, to projection-mapped performances and live storytelling, all hybrid works that explore the poetic threshold between the concrete and abstract.