[Projects]
Annette Weintraub is a media artist whose projects embed layered narratives within a variety of architectural constructs. Her work is an investigation of architecture as visual language, and focuses on the dynamics of urban space, the intrusion of media into public space and the symbolism of space. She creates projects that integrate elements of narrative, film and architecture within a conceptual representation of space, often using sound to spacialize that structure.
She is now working with hybrid constructs of 2D and 3D in order to explore modes of spatial representation and the subjective experience of physical space. Her recent work is concerned with how our sense of place shapes behavior and is memorialized in recollection.
One Text, Many Stories
URBAN MEMORY LOSS: a Nightmare of Change in which Time is Inscribed in Space—or How a Text Became a Story
One Text, Many Stories [URBAN MEMORY LOSS: a Nightmare of Change in which Time is Inscribed in Space—or How a Text Became a Story] is an exploration of reading, and of how the visual context and process of reading influences interpretation. An original text composed of nine short passages describes an urban space reconstituted in memory, and is interspersed with short extracts from Michael de Certeau’s “The Practice of Everyday Life” and “The Production of Space” by Henri Lefebre. Taken together, the passages are a construction of ‘the city’as an fluid mental map of elements that are shuffled and rearranged. Inspired by the css Zen Garden use of CSS to separate structure and appearance, each page redisplays and reconfigures the primary text. Through this alteration, the text undergoes shifts in meaning and narrative arc.
One Text, Many Stories is a SPOTLIGHT on Turbulence at http://www.turbulence.org
[Recent Activities]
Day of the Dead, September, 2009 (September 23-October 31, 2009)
The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, Scranton, PA
http://www. eveerhart-museum.org
Slow Reveal, (March 2009- )
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park MD.
http://http://www.artgallery.umd.edu/exhibit/292.09/index.html