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installation, Bard College Graduate Studios
07_8_2018

The piece was approached as a non-linear and interactive narrative project. Like a film but the frames of a film printed, layered, and falling from the active printers as audiences walk into the room. A text was written and layered visually with the printed images.

An interactive installation performance that explores memory functions. This project acts as a playful and fictionalized “DIY” therapy of recovering memories. There are things about family and computers and the internet and Freud’s screen memory and a mapping of psychology.

Audiences interact with the printed falling pages while the printers are mic’d and amplified.

The first installation event of the work.
Second presentation can be found <here>

Installation Text <here>

Materials:
• HP Photosmart 8100 (Found; broken wifi)
• HP 96/94 Ink-new $80
• White inkjet 8.5x11 paper-ne
• HP Designjet T520 36. in.
• Purchased at auction $250/ repaired
• Refurbished HP 711 Ink $80
• White Roll Paper-new $50
• Images: Found digital images, iPhone images, printer test sheets, Text
• Sound elements: Contact mics, 6-channel mixer, speakers/party-kit, SM57-Acoustic mic, and Revrand William’s sound skills and collaboration.