Homeland
Homeland: the U>S>A> piece, returns to strategies used in the original Borderline Stories interactive work. Users in the United States are asked questions "for and against" a series of topics regarding war and peace, and current exclusionary immigration practices in the U.S. Answers are tallied every three days from online input or input gathered in the gallery space, or both. Visual symbols are constructed out of the "yes and no" answers using pluses and minuses much like "connect the dots." These quantified answers, expressed as a particular symbol can be scrolled through during the time that the piece is up. The evolving visualizations, shown on screen, also become printed display. Previously printed Ink-jet images are completed from data as it is collected. The "drawings" are pre-printed with grids and numbered coordinates to facilitate the drawing of the pluses and minuses. Every three days another image is added to the display, creating an offline documentation or archive of work.