[Nettime-bold] Annette Weintraub, Mirage

[Annette Weintraub <weintraub@ccny.cuny.edu>]

Title: Annette Weintraub, Mirage

Mirage

Mirage is a Web-based narrative project that examines the dissonance between the romantic expectations of travel and the realities of place. Based on a journey to Morocco, Mirage embeds ostensibly neutral 'tourist' photos with contradictory narratives exposing a complex of economic, social, historical and psychological realities. Mirage addresses the complex relationship of experience and expectation, examining elements of voyerism, escapism, cultural confusion and mythification. It presents alternative interpretations of the signature visuals of an "exotic" place, and the resultant tensions between expectation and actuality.

Mirage is at: http://cepa.buffnet.net/exhibits/EXHIBIT.2001/Paradise2/p10.html. This project was commissioned for the exhibition, "Paradise in Search of a Future, Part II" at CEPA in Buffalo.

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And:

Launching in December: The Mirror That Changes,  a project on water and sustainability commissioned by the Ruschlikon Centre for Global Dialogue.

Crossroads was presented at the Graz Biennial of Media and Architecture, Nov. 7-11 in Graz, Austria.

http://www.artimage.at, and will be presented at IMAGINE2001 in Gavle, Sweden at the University of Gavle in December.

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