“Voices on the wall” invites us to confront the ephemerality of memory and the fragility of meaning in digital systems. The act of encoding, decoding, and erasing raises questions about what we value most when we archive: is it the raw signal or the sense we ourselves make of it later on? In a world where formats become obsolete almost as soon as they’re born we must reckon with the possibility that even our most cherished digital artifacts may one day exist only as echoes.

The software driving the installation, Palinode Protocol, takes its name from the ancient poetic practice of formal recantation. At its core, the Protocol orchestrates a seamless chain of inscription and annihilation: user text is first encoded by one module, then decoded for display by another, only to be ruthlessly erased upon task completion.

This choreography of encode → decode → erase lays bare the fleeting nature of digital memory, transforming every message into a momentary apparition that vanishes as soon as it materializes.