"Multimediat[ed] [E]visceration": Final Text/Image Composition

"Multimedia[ted] [E]visceration" was a multi-media installation that Jacqueline Rhodes & Jonathan Alexander designed specifically for presentation at the Seventh Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, held at the University of Louisville, October 16-18, 2008. The installation invited participants to enter into a semi-dark room, upon the walls of which were projected images of texts and bodies. The texts rotated between various quotations from N. Katherine Hayles Writing Machines and Michael Warners Publics and Counterpublics. Following these sets of quotations appeared a series of questions. After the last question, a series of quickly changing images flashed across the screen. While none of the images were pornographic, many presented a variety of bodies in a variety of positions and states of undress. The presentation then repeated itself, again and again.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• installation
• art;
• rhetoric
• and
• composition;
• digital
• humanities