Commit to Memory, Know it Will Perish examines the materiality and dis/embodiment of human memory as data within technological infrastructures and more-than-human environments. Developed during a residency at the Coalesce Center for Biological Arts and informed by prior research at the University of Washington’s Molecular Information Systems Lab, the project probes the logic of permanence that underlies synthetic biology and data storage. Using new media, traditional craft, and speculative bio-data practices, the work explores how human information, encoded as DNA molecules, is inserted into living hosts such as bacteria—promising a form of “immortality” as long as the host body remains alive. In contrast to this engineered persistence, the project asks: If knowledge is documented, does it mean we will remember it?