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Artifacts of the Presence Era
Sociable Media group

Researchers:		Prof. Judith Donath Fernanda Viégas and Ethan Perry
Project Web site:		http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/ICA/
Group Web site:		http://smg.media.mit.edu/

This piece ran at the Institute for Contemporary Art gallery in Boston, January 22—April 27, 2003. During that time, a camera and a microphone captured the myriad of images and sounds produced during the exhibition.

The layers in Artifacts of the Presence Era tell us a story about past events. The images and sounds produced in the ICA gallery are captured and then visualized as a growing, organic landscape that serves as an historical record. Like its natural counterpart, this process reveals long-term patterns (the rhythm of night and day, periods of great activity, or empty silence), while retaining occasionally serendipitous, but often mundane, samples of the passage of life.

The project visualized the accumulating layers of data and allowed visitors to navigate the captured images and ambient sounds, peeking back into the history of the gallery.

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