between conflict
and resolve
installation & online version in progress

   
 

3-dimensional space combining 19th and 21st century technology allowing viewers to shift between past and present -- the sites as recorded within the 19th century Jerusalem stereograms and now, more than 100 years later. Events taking place the year the stereogram was taken and those taking place 100 years later are embedded within the images, allowing viewers to slide between the culture, history, politics and everyday life then and now.

The viewers' physical immersion with the 3-dimensional space and their control over what is seen and experienced through the spatial tracking system links the viewer directly to historical and contemporary streams of information, linking the viewers' body and subjectivity directly to politics, cultural conflicts and histories of the area.

The idea is to make more of the details of the historical and political forces shaping these sites available to viewers' experiences, nuances which are as much a part of these places as the architecture itself.

Production/Work-in-progress presentation   New Media Lab, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta (April, 2006)
     
Medium   (video) Original footage taken of monument and cultural sites in Jerusalem matching corresponding 19th century stereogram views, (text)Historical events taking place the year of the stereogram and 100 years later; selections from The Jew as Pariah by Hannah Arendt, (stereogram images) from Underwood and Underwood Publishers
     
Credits/Thanks   Visualization Researcher : Dr. Maria Lantin
Visualization Technician: Steve Nichols
   

Produced with the generous support of Banff Centre for the Arts, Co-Production Residency, April, 2006

     
     
  Installation components           Documentation of presentation, Banff Ctr. --------------------- ---------------------
selected historical text
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  Jaffa Gate, 1899 stereogram Visualization simulation Detail wall left Detail centre wall Detail wall right