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Path of Silence: Telepresent Labyrinth
In Path of Silence, real-time video images from 11 different labyrinths
throughout the world are brought together in a virtual 11-circuit labyrinth
to create a collective sacred space, that can be experienced by multiple
participants as a single labyrinth. A video camera records the activity
within this collective labyrinth and sends it back out to each individual
labyrinth location, thus completing the cycle.
Like the journey of those who walk sacred labyrinths, traveling form
the outside to the center and back again, each of the physical external
sacred labyrinths travels into the center of the collective inner virtual
labyrinth space and returns outward, completing the journey. |
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the past 5000 years, many cultures throughout the world, including the
Native American, Greek, Celtic and Mayan, have devised their own labyrinth
patterns. These patterns represent both the journey to our center and
that of emergence and creation. Labyrinths are geometric forms used to define a sacred space. Walking
a sacred labyrinth induces a contemplative, intuitive, and/or meditative
state. Labyrinths are unicursal paths, which lead to the center and
back out again in a spiral manner.
In Path of Silence, Path of Image, real-time video images from 11 different labyrinths throughout the world are brought together in a virtual 11-circuit labyrinth to create a collective sacred space, that can be experienced by multiple participants as a single labyrinth. A video camera records the activity within this collective labyrinth and sends it back out to each individual labyrinth location, thus completing the cycle. These images are displayed on video monitors or projection screens at each of the source labyrinth locations. Like the journey of those who walk sacred labyrinths, traveling form the outside to the center and back again, each of the physical external sacred labyrinths travels into the center of the collective inner virtual labyrinth space and returns outward, completing the journey.  During
the installation, as participants walk the virtual collective labyrinth,
their presence is recorded on the video images and transmitted to the
source locations. Conversely, the presence of anyone walking the labyrinth
in any source location is brought in to the collective virtual space
via the video connection. Thus, walking either the virtual or any one
of the physical labyrinths, makes one a participant in the collective.
The reciprocal telematic nature of this installation reflects the essence
of the labyrinth as an archetypal union of contemplation and visualization,
both a journey to the center and of emergence.
Shockwave presentation of installation design. (Opens in new window) |
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An interdisciplinary artist-researcher working with digital media and interactive technologies.
