Induction ©1995Induction uses seven channels of video and three channels of music and sound to focus on the blurred boundaries between memory, history, fantasy, and dreams, with the attendant implications of the erosion of personal identity. Video images combine live-action shots and pans with computer-drawn animated portraits; they are projected onto a flat wall, into a pit on the floor, and on a sculptural grouping of monitors. The sung but wordless music track is structured on the Medieval technique of organum, where a fundamental melody is distorted and buried in order to accommodate florid overlays of other voices. A single narrative is broken into nine sections read from three separate perspectives, which tell the fragmented story of a man whose identity is simultaneously observed and denied. These elements work together to suggest erasure, uncertainty, and the creation of a personal void. Press:LA
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