the Present Moment (Mamentus) - Experience Experience

the PRESENT MOMENT
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Interactive Multimedia Installation
GET IN TOUCH WITH NOW
(& RELIVE THE PAST)

This Installation Featured:

+ Walk Station (2 simulated P.O.V. walks; self-powered treadmill)
+ Beach Station (60 pounds of sand; various shoreline & tide shots on continuous 2hr video loop)
+ Bike Station (2 P.O.V. cycle rides [Olympic Sculpture Park & Hi-Way]; cycle on roller)
+ Tent Station (fake plants, leaves, and natural ephermera; nature audio loops on cassette & boombox; various Seward Park footage on continuous 2hr video loop)
+ Smell Station (2 unidentified smells, placed in appropriately anonymous boxes)
+ Groove Station (previously recorded drum programming/sequencing on continuous loop; headphones; percussion instruments available for the participant) - NO LINK
+ Instructions

+ Banana Experience (an experiment in temporality: eat a banana, place the peel on the other side of the line; the banana in two states)

+ LIVE DRONE (live drone - performed by S. Funkee on synthesizers, samples, loops, vocals, and piano - through a wall of amplifiers)

+ Text Cards (textual snapshots of and meditations on the Present Moment, displayed throughout the room)

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BONUS:

+ 100 Handwritten Invitations were created as promotion for the event and dispersed throughout the city of Seattle. Some were placed in: U-Scan change dispensers; the hands of the public; the most scenic areas contained within parks; inconspicuous spaces on public transit; airport bathrooms...
+ These invitations were scanned prior to dissemination and compiled into a Photoshop document which was, subsequently, displayed on one of the walls in the installation. Seen (briefly and essentially out-of-focus) near the end of the video walkthrough, this poster served as a means of transforming what once seemed idiosyncratic and, perhaps, as a one-off (e.g. the handwritten card) into an element belonging to a unified concept...

+ a 55-page thesis - explaining the theoretical significance of each of the elements contained within the installation, detailing the process behind the creation of the work, and more precisely articulating the thematic and conceptual Mind Basket in which the Idea Eggs were hatched - accompanied the project and is available upon request