TheWall-TheWorld

Visit thewalltheworld.net

Available online and archived as a record of the original work

2011-2017

Google Earth Plugin, Internet Browser, Interactive

Originally designed as an interactive website in Google Earth, viewers explored the location and impact of the wall in the West Bank and, at the same time, in any city in the world they chose. Google ended its support for this early Google Earth version in 2017.

A recent version, TheWallTheWorld: A Drone Symphony (video TRT 4 min/2020), uses footage from the original website, accompanied by the soundtrack Acamar, originally composed and performed by cellist Frances-Marie Uitti and composer Yota Morimoto as a followup to their collaborative DVD 13AL.

Selected Exhibits

• ISEA 09, Belgrade, Ireland, 2009
• Interactive Futures 09, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2009
• “Performing Histories/Inscribing Jewishness,” Conney Conference on Jewish Studies,
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 2009
• LA RE:Play, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 2012

Programing

Christopher Zimmerman

Thanks

Paul Rademacher (Deepwater Horizon Spill)

Originally designed as an interactive website in Google Earth. Using Google Earth navigation tools. users tracked the wall in the West Bank in the left frame, simultaneously seeing the wall transposed onto any city in the world they chose. (TheWallTheWorld.net // 2011-2018)

This iteration uses footage from the original webwork accompanied by the soundtrack, “Acamar,”, composed and performed by cellist and composers Frances-Marie Uitti and Yota Morimoto.

TheWall

Visit thewall.name

The website requires flash to be enabled on your browser to work properly.

2006 – 2008

Website, Maps, Locative Media, Locative Walks (in development)

TheWall, the second in the series, maps a 15-mile segment of the barrier/security wall between Abu Dis, in the south, and Qalandiya, in the north, upon selected cities. The first site of overlay is San Francisco, California.

The site contains a detailed mapped trajectory of the wall, focusing on an area between Qalandiya, in the north, and Abu Dis, in the south. Using geo-referenced media, including video, sound and photographs, the website tracks the impact of the wall on lives and economies along its route through walks and travels between Abu Dis and Qalandiya, and talks with residents, business owners and families who live along the route of the wall.

New cartographic tools, working iin conjunction with locative media, casts this distant event upon local and familiar ground to convey its impact in local terms. While obvious differences exist, such as political systems, histories, political circumstances, languages and cultures, those junctures where daily, everyday lives are lived and altered by the imposition of the wall are resonant and opportune points of intersections at which to reflect on the complex and nuanced links between one place and the other.

As the wall changes what was once integrated and connected communities in the West Bank, it’s capacity to alter cohesive and interconnected lived spaces, wherever it lays, is the rational and link between the wall’s site of origin and the ground on which its shadow falls.

Selected Exhibits

• ISEA 09-Belfast, Ireland
• Expanded Cartographies
• Fine Arts Gallery
• San Francisco State University (2009)

Essays & Presentations

• MIT6-Stone and Papyrus – Storage and Transmission
• Conney Conference on Jewish Arts: Performing Histories – Inscribing Jewishness (2009)
• Photo Alliance
•  San Francisco Art Institute, CA (2009)

Thanks

For a complete list of credits and thanks for this project, please visit TheWall.name website.

What if international gestures, such as acts of terrorism or war, were like boomerangs that returned to sites of origins with an impact equal to the one enacted? - From the introductory essay to Shadows from another place