Death and Memory in the Digital Age: Three Questions with Molly Hales

Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. […] The post Death and Memory in the Digital Age: Three…