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192:291, 2002
Digital
Video, 5 minutes
Installation: dimensions variable
According
to the world almanac, there are 192 officially recognized
countries in the world. 192:291 is composed of 192
repetitions of a film tiled at half-second intervals.
The content of this film is the first-ever-televised
broadcast of an atomic bomb test done on March 17,
1953 at Yucca Flats, Nevada. Narrated by Walter Cronkite,
the broadcast communicates his impressions and emotive
responses while simultaneously describing the military
operation as it unfolds.
My intention for the work is to have it convey the
complexity of our response to viewing such footage.
We are seduced by the sublime visual qualities of
nuclear explosions. Yet this attraction is coupled
with a horror which stems from understanding the destructive
power of such instruments. The viewer, observing the
work can calculate: if every country were hit by 3
repeated bombs, the destruction of the world would
occur in 5 minutes.
Featured at:
Transmediale 06, Berlin [Honorable Mention]
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago
WRO Center for Media Art, Poland
UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
San Francisco Art Institute/Walter McBean Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose,
CA [solo exhibition]
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