Video installation 39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W in Denver

The interactive video installation 39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W, ran from November 14, 2009 thru June 7, 2010, as part of EMBRACE!, an international exhibition of 17 site-specific installations at the Denver Art Museum. The temporal works were commissioned as collective artist response to the architecture of the Daniel Libeskind-designed Fredrick C. Hamilton Building.

39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W is a site-specific interactive video installation that seeks to develop a dialectic between ecological memory and architectural space and form. The work brings forward the ideals of ecological memory as the historical, cosmological and environmental ground for the evolving architectural memory of the Hamilton Building. Ecological memory is re-mediated through the interpretation of contemporary and historical data from the celestial to the terrestrial to the biotic into an immersive interactive environment that responds to audience movement and the range of interactions associated with the data interpretations of the installation.

The title of the work 39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W is based upon the latitude and longitude coordinates of the Denver Art Museum’s Fusebox Gallery. The gallery is transformed into an “observatory” site for the translation of datastreams into creative ecological memory within the Hamilton building architecture.