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Seeker
Josephine Starrs,
leon cmielewski
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The Seeker installation uses three large projections to explore migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement.
Seeker’s interactive component enables participants to map their own personal family migration history. Making a contribution allows access to a visualization of all accumulated maps. The most recent vectors are drawn first, followed gradually by the vectors of previous participants. An alternative animated visualization can be accessed by the viewer, where elegant curves represent the distance each generation has traveled.
Another screen shows panning satellite imagery of cities overlaid with moving text of harvested news feeds. The text describes incidents where people have died attempting to seek refuge in another country.
The third screen consists of animated curves representing population migration data and the effect that conflicts over resources such as tantalum, diamonds and oil have had on the displacement of people. The animations are overlaid onto vast empty landscape images from Africa, Australia and India.
Over time the three screens begin a silent conversation with one another as the viewer makes connections between issues of personal migration, conflicts over resources and the way human displacement is represented in the global media.
Seeker’s interactive component enables participants to map their own personal family migration history. Making a contribution allows access to a visualization of all accumulated maps. The most recent vectors are drawn first, followed gradually by the vectors of previous participants. An alternative animated visualization can be accessed by the viewer, where elegant curves represent the distance each generation has traveled.
Another screen shows panning satellite imagery of cities overlaid with moving text of harvested news feeds. The text describes incidents where people have died attempting to seek refuge in another country.
The third screen consists of animated curves representing population migration data and the effect that conflicts over resources such as tantalum, diamonds and oil have had on the displacement of people. The animations are overlaid onto vast empty landscape images from Africa, Australia and India.
Over time the three screens begin a silent conversation with one another as the viewer makes connections between issues of personal migration, conflicts over resources and the way human displacement is represented in the global media.
Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs (AU) are artists who incorporate play in their work as a strategy for engaging with the social and political contradictions inherent in contemporary society. Since 1995 they have collaborated on several projects including the User Unfriendly Interface, Dream Kitchen interactive stop-motion animation and a.k.a., a short video about universal surveillance. Starrs was a founding member of the influential cyber-feminist group VNS Matrix and lectures at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Cmielewski lectures at the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney. http://lx.sysx.org
Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs (AU) are artists who incorporate play in their work as a strategy for engaging with the social and political contradictions inherent in contemporary society. Since 1995 they have collaborated on several projects including the User Unfriendly Interface, Dream Kitchen interactive stop-motion animation and a.k.a., a short video about universal surveillance. Starrs was a founding member of the influential cyber-feminist group VNS Matrix and lectures at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Cmielewski lectures at the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney. http://lx.sysx.org
Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs (AU) are artists who incorporate play in their work as a strategy for engaging with the social and political contradictions inherent in contemporary society. Since 1995 they have collaborated on several projects including the User Unfriendly Interface, Dream Kitchen interactive stop-motion animation and a.k.a., a short video about universal surveillance. Starrs was a founding member of the influential cyber-feminist group VNS Matrix and lectures at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Cmielewski lectures at the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney. http://lx.sysx.org