Borderline Stories

[milos]

Borderline Stories website online 1-25 through 2-25
installation in the Jeleni Gallery: February 18 - 26, 2002 to participate on-line: go to 
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~sttwn/border.html 

How we project onto others and how we invent images of the world are
explored actively in the project "Borderline Stories". 
Borderline Stories is an interactive web-site which relates the stories of 3 recent
immigrants to the USA. The on-line audience is asked to participate by choosing who
they think represents the narrator based on a visual representation of
the character's age, gender, and ethnicity; by indicating where the
on-line audience member is from; and by adding their own stories to the
web-site. Imagery changes visually in response to the collected input
over a period of one month, morphing or changing the representation of
the characters of the story, and the proportions of global maps. 
The texts and visuals collected over a month will be displayed
interactively in the Jeleni gallery space, along with the on-line site =
as an
installation using digital projections and video. in Czech and English translations. Scott Townsend
Department of Graphic Design
NCSU
USA Jeleni Center for Contemporary Art
Jeleni 9
118 000 Praha 1
Czech Republic
www.fcca.cz