Steve said that it would be a good idea to look up on installation art so thats what I’m going to do.
This one is a good idea to explore, you’re first memory. What it is and why you remember it, I think I might ask some people about their first memories and see if that gets me anywhere.
The Artist said of it:
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In this work I created a realistic HO scale train track inside the surface of a small, kinetic Ferris wheel type structure. The small, black and white video camera, records and transmits in real-time the image that simulates the TV memory that is in my mind’s eye. This work has been displayed using a video projector or a small black and white TV.”
This piece was awarded the “Wand 5 Award” at the 2003 Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival of Expanded Media, Germany.
I Like this video because it has the perfect blend of narrative, process, art, philosophy, humanity, life, loss, re-finding, love …. The way she tells the story over Roz’s shoulder, combining her images as they come to life on the canvas in front of her (and us) with the sound of her voice as she ponders her mother’s past through a single photograph of the little brother is incredibly powerful.
Roz Jacobs is a New York City artist who has been exhibiting her paintings and drawings in galleries and museums in the United States, Canada, Europe, Russia, Israel, and Japan since 1987. She is represented by Synchronicity Fine Arts in Greenwich Village.
Her interests extend to writing and video production. Her screenplay, Emily and Gitta was produced by the American Film Institute. She was script and story consultant for Andrej Wajda’s film, Korczak, screenplay by Agniezska Holland (Europa, Europa). Jacobs’ books and screen adaptations for children have been published by Macmillan and McGraw-Hill and Time for Kids. She is working on a documentary about her parents who are survivors of the Holocaust. The Memory Project is the integration of themes that have been of vital interest throughout her life.
Laurie Weisman, Editor/Producer
Laurie Weisman’s career has focused on using media and new technologies to touch and educate wide audiences. As Vice President of School Products at Sesame Workshop, she working on programs including Ghostwriter and Math Talk and developed award-winning curricular programs integrating video, audio and books. At Scholastic, she was Editorial Director for Readabout, a computer-based project to help students understand and enjoy non-fiction. At Time, Inc., she was editorial director for a series of Time For Kids Readers, content-rich social studies supplements published by Harcourt. She produced teacher guides and multimedia components for The Voyages of the Mimi, PBS series that integrated computer software, books, and television to make math and science learning compelling for students. Before obtaining a Masters degree in Museum Education from Bank Street College of Education, she was a park ranger and a horticulturist in Central Park, and the princess of Belvedere Castle.
“I created Memory with one basic idea. The thought of a dieing memory and how would it play in my mind. I want the viewer to feel what i feel the sadness of what could never be lived twice. It is very sad yet romantic in the sense of how precious our special memories are…they are forbidden and were meant to be lived once in order to live in our hearts forever.”
I thought that this piece was very thought-provoking, even though you can experience things twice memories are different and singular which is an interesting concept.
