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Legrady Tracing  NEW: Tracing on the net Interactive shockwave installation Tracing will be a two-screen installation, an interactive digital video "novel" in which the sequence of events are dynamically determined. One screen in the installation will feature the narrative, the second screen will simultaneously provide information about the user's and audience's actions. Influenced by the scene in the movie Blade Runner, (1980) where Harrison Ford uses a vision machine to penetrate a photograph by trespassing its intrinsic boundaries, and by the "nouveau roman" writing of Alain Robbe-Grillet as seen in the movie L'Annee demiere a Marienbad, (1960), the structural model of this non-linear narrative will consist of tableaux or scenes with multiple pathways connected through video segments to other scenes. At each event the user will proceed through the database computed pathways, weaving events together to construct a narrative. Theoretical and conceptual models include Pierce's and Saussure's semiotics reworked by Lacan, the modular framing of comics to fuse associative and metaphoric linkages, Barthes' and Derrida's discussions on the structure of narrative, and Virilio's discourse on techno machines "observing us".  George Legrady Homepage email: Axel Wirths, Curator |
