Experience, Embodiment, Excess


Multimedia[ted] [E]visceration and Installation Rhetoric

Jacqueline Rhodes

CSU San Bernardino

Jonathan Alexander

University of California, Irvine




 

Notes on Navigation: “Experience, embodiment, excess” is best viewed on a Macintosh running Safari or Firefox. Viewers will need to have the latest QuickTime plug-ins to fully experience the site. We believe that the best way to experience this webbed essay and archive is by playing with the various links arranged on the bottom of each page and by any picture that will link you to another part of the archive.  Such navigation will mimic for you the productive disorientation of the original installation experience. That said, these tips will provide you with a more controlled and directed experience. 

•On the homepage, you can pick any image to get started.  The images will take you to random portions of the archive, which you can explore from there.

•The picture of the screen in the upper right-hand corner will always take you to the homepage.

•The picture links found at the bottom of each page (except for the homepage) take you to all of the different sections of the archive.  From left to right, these picture links take you to the following:

¬a theoretical discussion of installation rhetoric;

¬background information about the setting up of the original installation at the Watson Conference;

¬a collection of video and sound clips used in the original installation;

¬a video mockup of the installation; and

¬description of and link to the installation blog.

•While you are in an individual section, the arrows in the lower right-hand corner will advance you through other screens in that individual section.  If the section contains only one screen, you will be advanced to another section.


Enjoy your experience!