Slippery Traces

George Legrady

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Co-workers & Funding
Documents
  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Installation Space
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Installation Space
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Wall Quotation
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Floorplan
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Chinese Dance
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Native Americans
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Grasshoppers
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Jumping for Ball
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  • Slippery Traces, 1996: Sequence Review
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Description
Slippery Traces is a multi-linear visual narrative in which viewers navigate through a network of over 240 interconnected postcards classified into 24 categories or chapters. The intention of the work has been to explore database structures as a means of generating multi-linear narratives at a time when web search engines were introduced. Slippery Traces is a narrative work in which three sets of cultural messages could intersect or collapse into each other. First, the archive consists mostly of commercial postcards selected out of 2000 to represent 20th century culture. The second level consisted of the evaluation of these images encoded through keywords and cross-listed through a database to maximize movement between categories. Third, the collection of these images signifies in a dispersed way George Legrady's autobiography.

(George Legrady)
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • interactive
    • narrative
    • navigable
    • visual
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
Technology & Material
Hardware
Mac Quadra or equivalent, minimum 20MB RAM, CD-ROM player, 1GIG HD
. Sony VPL-350Q/350QM, Sharp XG-E85OU LCD Data/Video Projector or equivalent with RGB cable
. One Mac 17” monitor, extended keyboard, one RemotePoint cordless mouse
. 2 Fostex amplified speakers with cable