Journeys:1900/2000 was commissioned by curator, Alison
Nordstrom for the traveling exhibition, Voyages (per)Formed
It premiered in August, 2000 at The Institute for Studies
in the Arts at Arizona State University where it was
created in residence. It then traveled to the Southeast
Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida and opened
at Boston's Photographic Resource Center in November, 2001.
It was part of the 2002 Fotofest in Houston, Texas during
the month of March, 2002.
Journeys:1900/2000 is an interactive installation about a
journey in which the viewer is complicit and it cannot
occur without their active engagement. Using bend and
touch sensors imbedded in a reproduction of a 19th century
travel album, video and audio is triggered as the pages of
the album are turned. I have constructed an album which is
composed of fragments of memory, pieces of voyages, and
bits of history, taking single images from various existing
albums, reproducing and recontextualizing them to create a
voyage of my own devising. Each of these fragments is
enhanced by video and audio which may support, amplify or
contest the visual information we are receiving from the
photographic print on the album page.