Technologies of History


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Technologies of History explores the dense layers of mediation to which the assassination of John F. Kennedy has been subjected over the years, providing a rich set of opportunities to think about the construction of history itself. Motion-tracked paths from disparate video clips are superimposed to form a palimpsest, through which the user may follow connections suggested by either the video segment or its accompanying text.

Video Traversal

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


The “Analyzer” overlays motion paths from multiple video clips in a single visual field.
Clicking a topic expands the view, bringing commentary and links to other topics and related clips into dialogue with the tracked area of the video.
A single clip may contain multiple commentaries, and the excerpted works include documentaries, TV series, fiction films, machinima, and the first televised airing of the Zapruder film.
A clip viewer allows users to watch the excerpts in a more traditional format.