Their
Things Spoken
Agnes Hegedüs
2001
Their Things Spoken is the third part of a trilogy which
deals with different aspects of memory and visual archetypes in our
culture, the first two being Memory Theater (1997) and Things
Spoken (1999).
The contributors to this archive are museum visitors who responded
to Hegedüs' invitation to bring their favorite objects with them and tell
a story about it's personal significance.
The objects were digitized, stories recorded, and photographs
taken of each person holding their object. In the interactive artwork
on DVD-ROM, the elements become an image, sound and text
archive respectively presented on the screen within three interrelated
windows. The user can choose one or other of these elements to navigate
through, and across, the entries and in this way explore an emergent
matrix of collective memories.
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