The interactive installation <IG01: Memory> dynamically traces visitor’s actions, mixing them in unexpected ways with memories held and stolen by the physical space. Throughout the exhibition, those memories of visitors and actions seep into the environment, creating a virtually woven fabric of events that grows and evolves over time.

A room is threaded with a network of laser beams, coated with video projections and equipped with cameras, its ‘eyes.’ It encloses a series of implied and shifting geographies, signified and made ‘tangible’ only by beams of light. When crossed, visitors interrupt the space and trigger a fracture through which a virtual space can seep into the physical present. Each of the ‘neural extensions’ of the space allow for the creation of fragmentary, connected and fluid narratives. As a result, the space becomes infused with the presence of past events, making slippery the relationship between the fictive and the 'real' memory.

Studio Soto, Boston, MA, July 28 – September 7, 2005

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Review Boston Globe | The Best of 2005