At our presentation in Montalvo, as we were talking about the creation of places by avatars, Rory mentioned my fascination with the erasure of memory. Which leads to the following story. Continue reading Erasure…

Final installation plan at Incheon Digital Festival.

Different possibilities to show the work at the Incheon Digital Festival

Images from the Montalvo Residency, where we created the base code for the project. 3 projectors created a single space of generated avatars.

Table showing object definitions, elements of the city, for inclusion. Continue reading objects…

I’ve been thinking about the drawings that Tadeusz Kantor made for his plays. In “Water Hen” the audience entered through the cloak room,  being winter they took off their coats and were given ‘keys’ or costumes, for example, orthodox Jewish outfits – they were asked at various times to be spectators in the play.

The play itself, by Witkiewicz, took place behind large barn-like doors. Periodically Kantor would go through the doors and pick a ‘character’ from the play and bring them to the audience.  What was curious was that they all had components of the set inside them, as if their bodies and the set were fused together.

Today we spent a long time working on viewpoints and I thought of his special camera.

Our first workshop consisted of three parts. In the first we asked people to write ‘elements of the city’ on sheets of paper. The second we split up into 3 groups and tried to find structures for these ‘elements’. The third part consisted of a discussion. Below are three diagrams that try to relate the different elements of the city.

left
The large triangle represents ‘concrete’ concepts. The top circle represents ‘abstract’ ideas. Different elements are dispersed throughout the structure – garbage bags at the bottom; Charity, Liberalism in the middle of the circle; sneakers strung on cables across the middle of the triangle.

middle
The city is divided into 7 ‘cogs’. The sun and the moon represent time. A sort of perpetual clockwork. Charlie Chaplin is running on the outside. Roundly criticized for not expressing change in the city.

right
Time is running up and down, engineering from right to left. The ‘moral umbrella’ is in the middle, a compass turning in every way. The future “Red Light, Ice Cream Van” is desire. The past is narratives ‘Filthy Stories”. Organization is perceived as ‘Hustle and Bustle” on the left and a school with plumbing on the right. Loneliness, the candle, was supposed to exist in every quadrant.

[here][now] is a traveling installation that sets up transient portals into a persistent online world.
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