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by David Theo Goldberg, Information Architecture by Stefka Hristova, Design and Programming by Erik Loyer October 2007 Launch Project |
Words slide, fall, rain, dissolve, and transform in this poetic exploration of the contours of American racial politics post-Katrina. Featuring music by Liu Sola. A collaboration with scholar David Theo Goldberg and Stefka Hristova.
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The piece begins with a placid view over which hovers a ticker that repeats the words “New Orleans.” Evocative phrases rain down from the ticker. |
The user can dislodge specific key phrases into what proves to be a liquid landscape. As the phrase submerges, we follow it downwards as it breaks apart and dissolves into other words. | |
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As the words dissolve completely, they trigger the appearance of a text—one of the 24 arguments of the piece—and related media. |
Accompanying media includes video, audio, photographs and maps that illuminate the status of New Orleans, present and past. | |
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A bookmarkable index allows users to explore the content of the project independently of the main interface. |
