THREE TIMES REMOVED (1996)

Combining text, photos and animations, Three Times Removed uses the digital medium to reconstruct a family history through generational memories. The narrative consists of Iyrical fragments, such as glimpses of a childhood in wartime Budapest, and images that become tokens of memory. The yellowish tint of the digitized photos imitates the sepia tones of old photographs, mementos resurfacing from the past. Watching these photographs download turns remembrance into a process where memories slowly materialize. Three Times Removed allows visitors to contribute thoughts on memory, family, and self, which are posted at the site: and one contributor's comments manage to capture what it is that makes this project alluring: "the echoing sssounds of the ss S ss oul, fragmented moments reflecting the presence of being here and now, history, the stories we tell ourselves to understand where we are and how we arrived." Memory, after all, seems to be an ideal subject for this medium that genuinely lends itself to conveying fragments, interwoven stories, and acontinuous process of arrival and departure. Christiane Paul Remembrances of Things Past Intelligent Agent, Fall 1997, volume 1, number 10

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