[Scott Townsend Proposal and Archive]

[Boardroom] In "The Boardroom" a series of up to 13 separate interactive pieces are linked to the boardroom environment, much like chapters in a book. All thirteen are thematically connected through the idea of how we have created a global culture that is based on images rather than actual physical communities.





In "The Boardroom" a series of up to 13 separate interactive pieces are linked to the boardroom environment, much like chapters in a book. All thirteen are thematically connected through the idea of how we have created a global culture that is based on images rather than actual physical communities. This installation is comprised of a large background landscape in which two looped videotapes play continuously. These monitors display landscapes in what appear s to be real-time, flanking a third central monitor which is fed by a computer. The computer runs an interactive piece (an interactive CD-ROM) suggesting the metaphor of a meeting or the location of a board-room in which the viewer/user has the option of moving between four chairs in the virtual space of the room. Each position suggests a different view-point on a globe which sits on the conference table. Further exploration moves into a series of text/image/video/and sound anecdotes, which finally terminate back in the original room.