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Overheard (2008 - 2010)
“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it
disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” — John Cage
Overheard is an extension of Public Privacy: the visual investigation has
turned into an aural one. I listen to the cell phone conversations that take
place in public, and copy down the words of these half-dialogues. These
fragments become the content for my artwork; I translate them into
typographic and auditory forms that capture the routine, shared aspects of
our public — and private — identities.
Overheard is the basis of several works,
including an interdisciplinary play
for Women’s Project titled “Talk Soon” with
choreographer Martha Mason
and playwright Joy Tomasko, and an interactive
media installation for CALIT2
with multimedia artist/programmer Michael Chladil,
based on his “Rope
& Pulley,”
a live performance system for controlling audio and
visual media.
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