The project started in the fall of 2002 with the writing and editing of texts. Picking through the work, I looked for texts that illustrated aspects of the themes of mediation and cultural conditions. The first public stage of Time Travel in this Moment involved live Internet broadcasts featuring guest readers. The broadcasts took place from EMMEDIA in March 2003. The readings were used as the basis for most of the videos created for the project.
I believe that each person’s impression of the world now comes from a small percentage of direct life experience while witnessing media feedback forms a far greater percentage of the ‘known world’.
The physical world and the condition of its inhabitants are constantly recharted. Records can be found on the Internet, in newspapers, magazines, and in books. Images and words lay it all out. Television bends reality into digestible consumption. Yet, the deeper the probe, the muddier the water. As marketing pushes the spectacle to greater heights, the outtakes become more difficult to recycle. We know that there are two ends to every spectrum. In major centres, the social divides are more obvious.
In the Time Travel project, I talk about the world that is brought to me through electronic media and how it echoes back into my daily world. I witness those around me acting out their moments in time, it is the same world in which I witness and act out my own moment in time. When not receiving electronic messages, I know how I feel on the streets.
I am reworking the world through my corporeal capabilities, through the eye of the camera, the sound recorder, the printed word, through all of the carriers of electronic signal, and yes— even through direct contact with other living beings in this physical world. Time Travel in This Moment searches its way through the human condition that we all share in this same world, through the same media. It looks at the bigger picture of the ‘New World Politic’.
Readers: Anne Marie Nakagawa, Benjamin Breckenridge, Fred Guy Ferguson, Jasmin Poon, Karen Young, Nancy McHugh, Peter Curtis Morgan, Stephen Franse, Terrance Houle • This project has been assisted by: The Canada Council for the Arts • Alberta University of the Arts • AMAAS (Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society) • EMMEDIA — Gallery & Production Society • Time Travel in this Moment, 2004 booklet design by Daniel H. Dugas • Booklet printing by Ken Buera, Calgary, AB. • Time Travel in this Moment was supported by a Canada Council for the Arts – Spoken Word Grant, EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society and the Alberta University of the Arts. • Screenings: 2004 New Media Research Networks Conference, Charlotte- town, PEI • 2004 Immediacy Dominoes, Artcity – Passing Moments, EMMEDIA Celebrates 25 Years, Calgary, AB • 2004 EMMEDIA, launch, Calgary, AB.
The website for the project was migrated on May 12, 2019: https://timetravelinthismoment. wordpress.com/ The short essays Billboard Logic and Voodoo Aesthetic can be found on the site.
