Wild Memory Radio is a project by WePresent by WeTransfer, in collaboration with Seb Emina. It can be thought of as a kind of gallery, except rather than objects or artworks it contains memories. Each of these memories belongs to a leading creative, cultural or artistic figure, and each is about a place: a specific location that changed that person in some way, or had a lasting impact on their work.

The project was conceived at a time when travel was impossible, when the notion of a “sense of place” had become imbued with unusual poignancy. It is released at the dawn of an era when having memories, especially those embodied in a real location, is a point of distinction between human minds and their algorithmic equivalents, such as the systems used to make AI art. Yet those models have a habit of making images that are strangely memory-like—highly specific in some ways and eerily vague in others—a contrast Wild Memory Radio alludes to through its use of DALL-E imagery to create approximations of the locations and memories described.

WePresent

Concept and interviews by Seb Emina.

  • VP, Content: Holly Fraser
  • Sr. Managing Editor: Danielle Boelling
  • Sr. Art and Photography Editor: Suzanne Tromp
  • Sr. Editor: Liv Siddall
  • Head of Creative Strategy: Phil van der Krogt
  • Sr. Creative Producer: Alex Mattinson
  • Sr. Content Producer: Ciara O'Shea
  • Content Manager: Alex Kahl
  • Editorial Producer: Faye Quinn
  • Social Media Content Producer: Polly Bussell
  • Assistant Visual Commissioner: Alia Wilhelm
  • Story Editor: Hannah Ewens

Audio Production by Reduced Listening

  • Creative Director: Peter Meanwell
  • Producer: Tess Davidson
  • Composer: Femi Oriogun Williams
  • Sound Engineer: Mike Woolley
  • Sound Library: Epidemic Sound*

* (For a full list of credits for audio samples used in this project, please email editorial@wetransfer.com)

WeTransfer Studio

  • Executive Creative Director: Nessim Higson
  • Design Director: Hugo Timm
  • Digital Identity and Art Direction: Lumir Spanihel
  • Creative Copy and Strategy Lead: Robyn Collinge
  • Creative Copywriter: Abbie Robinson
  • Creative Development Lead: Daniel Hernández
  • Creative Development: Giulian Drimba, Simon Dagfinrud
  • Digital Design: Mark Ajram
  • Project Management: Vera le Blanc, Flora Dalton, Hannah Mullen, Marianna Tessello
  • Freelance Visual Design: Stevie O’Neill

Thanks to: Leanne Joseph, Keith Butters, Mikey Casalaina, Johnny Slack, Haja Camara, Courtney Askew-Conti, Charlie Brun, Dawbell, Mariama Abudulai, Christian Stavros, The Oriel, Ashley Woodfield, Sherrill Smith, Yu Yigang, Felix Lorenz-Wohnhas, Gareth Dobson, Max Shackleton, Cid Gardner, Chris Wellbelove, Matthew Rankin, Nonesuch, Hannah Silverman, Inge Colsen, Ryan Chavez, Joanna Barrios, Eugenia Hermo, Emily Bryson, Alice Deon, Tiffany Hultgren, Pentagram.