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Lawrence Bird
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Lawrence Bird

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Co-workers & Funding
Canada Council for the Arts
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Description
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • site-specific
  • genres
    • database art
    • glitch art
    • hybrid art
    • installations
      • performative installations
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • cartography
    • History and Memory
      • artifacts
      • collective memory
      • colonialism
      • cultural heritage
    • Media and Communication
      • electronic media
      • motion pictures (visual works)
    • Nature and Environment
      • agriculture
      • earth
      • ecology
      • environment
      • globes
      • landscapes (environments)
    • Power and Politics
      • authority
      • geopolitics
      • governance
      • imperialism
    • Society and Culture
      • entertainment
        • spectacles
      • globalization
      • information society
    • Technology and Innovation
      • digitization
  • technology
    • software
      • Global Positioning System (GPS)
      • video (digital)
Technology & Material
Installation Requirements / Space
Single-channel video with audio
or
Live generation with processing in Isadora (projection software)
(Variable aspect ratio as appropriate to architectural setting, from 3:1 to 4:3)

duration: Variable. ± 2.5 hrs.

Original audio was generated live in response to Isadora processing of the images, from two sources:
samples of ambient railway sound, and
text-to-speech audio generated from the original text of Manual Shewing The System Of Survey Adopted For The Public Lands of Canada, Manitoba and the North-West Territories, with Instructions to Surveyors Illustrated by Diagrams. (The Honourable The Secretary of State for Canada, 1871)
and ambient sound sources, variable, all in the public domain.
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