Once a Day, since 2007
Once a Day is a web-based visual narrative constructed from the results of automated Google alerts. The project reveals stories of violence in the Web landscape. Through a conceptual mapping process, daily bits of information come together in unusual symbolic encounters. These visual and verbal elements are gathered from automated Google searches associated with stylized violence. As the Google Alerts search for content connected to these concepts, the results are sent to my email inbox, accumulating there until I visit those links. From images, animations and video I create a narrative for that day. Each element makes reference to one of my concept searches.

I am interested in seeing how, over time, a complex story emerges from the aggregate of all this information. I am interested in exploring how the viewer might interact with changes in the scale and in the behavior of these familiar images, and how they might contribute to a narrative that is always in flux. Here the building and making of the story is meaningful, as well as the interactivity that I create. I wonder how input from the viewer at the beginning of their interaction with the work might determine an experience of the story that is generated individually for them. This project is in progress and currently employs XHTML, CSS and Javascript. I am in the process of expanding it's potential for input from users and hope to realize it as an interactive installation. Screen shots from sections on of the narrative have been resized, printed and installed in exhibiitons, as another experience of the story.
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