Seven Prophecies ©1990 Video/Music Installation

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Seven Prophecies combines digital video effects, original video imagery, and computer generated electronic music with seven operatically sung prophecies (taken from throughout the past three millennia), fragmented spoken narratives, and newsreel footage from decades past.

Inspired by the ancient Delphic oracle, the audience passes through a maze of corridors, arriving in a darkened chamber. Here they may choose from seven video segments to screen by selecting buttons set into an altar-like railing, which separates the viewer from the projected video.

As one critic wrote, "...Seven Prophecies defiantly collapses past and future, memory and augury, into intersecting planes of co-existence. The undulations of sound and image intimate new levels of perception and audience activity."

The installation was originally commissioned and exhibited by the Long Beach Museum of Art in California in 1990. The video has since been on German television (Sudwestfunk 3) and included in the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, the Bonn Videonale in Germany, and the Dallas Film and Video Festival in Texas. In 1997-1998, the installation was exhibited at the Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles as part of the exhibition "Allegorical Revisions."