The Evolution of Silence: An Interactive Media Memorial (project), interactive design, 2010
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The Evolution of Silence is a creative investigation into the visual representation of violence. As a design research project with several exploratory facets, one exploration is the development of an interactive media, Web-based memorial for the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
The memorial will focus on the craters of Yucca Flat, the site of experimental, post-World War II nuclear detonations, and on the approximately 50 L.A. Darling Company display mannequins, which (representing human subjects) experienced the force of nuclear explosions in the 1950s.
This Yucca Flat Memorial makes use of new media techniques to bypass government control of the site, making it possible for every individual to experience a provocative, participatory visualization of war’s aftermath and silence and to engage in an aesthetic act of reconciliation in naming the scars and of re-exerting man’s control of future destiny.
I am presenting this memorial (to Yucca Flat and the 50 L.A. Darling Company Mannequins) at the College Art Conference on February 11, 2010.Read my presentation talk "Designed Accidents: The Collapse of Knowledge and Nuclear Testing."
Watch a video documentation of the project.
