TERMINAL TIME

produced by the Recombinant History Project: Steffi Domike, Michael Mateas, Paul Vanouse

Computer animation: Patrick Lichty

Sponsored by Mon Valley Media and the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University

TERMINAL TIME is a cutting edge, audience-powered history engine combining mass participation, real-time documentary graphics and artificial intelligence to bring you the history you deserve. Each half-hour cinematic experience is custom-made to YOUR values, biases and desires and covers one thousand years of human history. History is in your hands!

Along with interactive artist Paul Vanouse and computer scientist Michael Mateas, I created an interactive, recombinant history documentary for theatrical and television release, which uses the past millennium as its time frame. This work, TERMINAL TIME, is about the construction of history, the significance of the millennium, and emerging technologies which are allowing us to recombine the facts of our pasts and presents to visualize our own particular interpretations of the future. Last summer I was invited to travel to Wellington, New Zealand to customize this project for installation at Te Papa Museum of New Zealand in ST@RT UP, their innovative international exhibition combining art and technology. TERMINAL TIME was also featured in November 2001 at the Digital Flaherty Festival for Electronic Documentary Media. (see: terminaltime.com)