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  • March -
    In his children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie describes an Ocean of Streams of Story containing currents of narrative in fluid form, "weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity."
  • History of the Main Complaint addresses issues of memory, truth, and reconciliation—issues that gripped South Africa in the immediate post-apartheid period, during which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission held public hearings to recover lost
  • On sight -
    An interactive digital video projection installation 1 large scale projection, colour, silent 10 x 12 x 6 metres The position of the viewer in front of the image controls the activity of the various objects on the screen. At the bottom of the
  • Alchemy -
    Interactive digital video installation 2 interactive laser discs under computer control colour, silent Alchemy is an interactive illuminated manuscript, inspired by medieval books such as Les Tres Riches Heures de Duc De Berry. The theme of
  • A New Life -
    Digital video 4 mins 8 secs colour, stereo sound by Jon Rose A NEW LIFE is a digitally produced video tape loosely based around Dante's first novel The New Life. In addition it draws upon a number of works by the early Renaissance Italian
  • Golem -
    Digital video installation 2 monitors and 12 channel audio, colour, sound audio by Hans Peter Kuhn Golem was a two channel video installation where the two monitors were arranged like the pages of an open book. The imagery was derived from
  • Recombinant Figure -
    Digital video installation 1 monitor colour, silent An interactive single monitor work with one computer, using simulated recombinant genetic algorithms. The viewer sees themselves reflected in a maze of mirrors within the work whilst the
  • Plot Against Time #3 (Insect Sonata (after Scriabin)), a single channel video, draws out the trajectories of insects in the my shady garden as they pass through beams of sunlight on a rare windless day in spring. The work's subtitle refers to early
  • electric earth -
    In Doug Aitken’s cinemascope-like, walk-in, multi-sectioned, video installation «Electric Earth» [...] the public is transported into the atmosphere of an airport by night. A flaming car and an abandoned shopping cart compliment the eerie scenario
  • new skin -
    The Broad Art Foundation's new skin, 2002, presents an evolution from Aitken's earlier styles, both physically and conceptually. Projected from four corners of a room onto a pair of suspended, intersecting oval screens, the work is part film and