The Shape of Memory is an Audio and Visual installation first launched at the Royal Albert Hall by Max Cooper & Factory Fifteen.
Memory has a special aesthetic quality, being rewritten each time it’s recalled and being somewhat skewed, particular details in high resolution; others in low or entirely missing
The Shape of Memory looks to explore the fickle and often fragmented nature of our memories. Exploring the visual language behind our memories from our most fond to the mundane, in which some parts can be entirely in focus while others are always somehow just out of reach.
Where the lines between one memory and another blur to create entirely fictitious memories of our minds creation until it’s impossible to know where one stops and another begins.
Thank to Paul Nicholls, Pete Rey and all at Factory Fifteen for their help in launching this exclusive installation at London Experience Week 2026.
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About Max Cooper:
Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.
He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos. Cooper has enquired forover 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events.
Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all. “I’ve always had a strong emotive bond with aesthetics, and found at an early age that the purified forms of electronic music carried a lot of weight for me, as did the reductive natural aesthetics of the sciences. That felt connection to both opened up a world I’ve been lost in ever since.”
Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural career transition, but for Cooper the commonalities are obvious: “In both fields, you’re in a sense, free. Free from the limits of living systems, free from the limits of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind.”
Max Cooper has collaborated with Zaha Hadid Architects, Dolby, L-Acoustics, 4DSOUND, Barbican Centre, W1 Curates, The Babraham Institute and exhibited work at museums including the Pompidou Metz, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Wave Seoul and The Science Museum London.
Discover more at www.maxcooper.net
About Factory Fifteen:
Factory Fifteen are a film and experience design studio led by Bafta and Emmy award winning directors. They create extraordinary cinematic worlds and live experiences for innovative brands and cultural institutions.
Recent experiential case studies include the UFC and Backstreet Boys events at Sphere, Max Cooper’s Royal Albert Hall show, ‘Kia Joyride experience’ at St Judes Cancer Research Hospital and the ‘Reve Des Lumiere’ in Tokyo Dream Park.