When algorithmic media are becoming more independent in their ability to select, organize, and create what and how we remember daily life, this article examines the genealogical pre-condition of algorithmically generated “memory” through a case study of Google Photos. I argue that the algorithmic conceptualization of memory is rooted in the history of cybernetics, which is a contrast to the socially constructed memory. I first investigate older phenomenological questions around “memory” in the science of cybernetics and then examine a genealogy of cybernetic memory. Finally, I illustrate how cybernetic memory is animated in Google Photos. This article historically examines what “memory” is understood to be in algorithmic media and how the science of cybernetics has integrated our current understanding of memory into algorithmic memory practices—the socio-technical imaginary of the past.

当算法媒体在选择，组织和创造我们如何记住日常生活以及如何记住日常生活的能力方面变得越来越独立时，本文将通过Google相册案例研究来考察算法生成的“记忆”的谱系前提。我认为记忆的算法概念化植根于控制论的历史，这与社会建构的记忆形成了鲜明对比。我首先研究了控制论科学中关于“记忆”的较旧的现象学问题，然后研究了控制论记忆的家谱。最后，我将说明控制论记忆在Google相册中的动画效果。