Mobile Figures


Previous project WiFi.Bedouin

An interactive essay about historical metaphors and metonyms for the Irish in which the non-linear aspects of the essay’s content are visualized as a virtual potato field whose root structure users can navigate at will.  A collaboration with scholar David Lloyd.

Video Traversal

A high quality recording of the project as a user might experience it.


Lloyd’s essay has been divided into discreet chunks--represented here as potatoes--through which multiple threads of meaning and argument intersect.
Clicking on a potato brings up its associated text, along with interface for navigating along the various interwoven threads of the work.
By expanding the reader interface, the user reveals non-linear connections between themes, keywords, and works referenced in the piece.
The “underground” area contains archival imagery which illustrates Lloyd’s points about common stereotypes of the Irish.