Seismic Memory: interview by Suzanne Wu with Christina McPhee

Interview: Christina McPhee: Seismic Memory

Subject: Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries: an intensive exploration of
seismic memory

This interview was recorded in January 2005 by Suzanne Wu, a writer on
art and technology based in San Francisco.


Correlating California seismic data in live and archived crashes with
the landscape of human memory, Christina McPhee opens a new
media/contemporary art project, Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, at Transport
Gallery, Los Angeles, March 5 to April 16, 2005. The installation will
include a locative new media live data diaries created in collaboration
with Jeremy Hight
and Sindee Nakatani, with additional web based work by Glorious Ninth
(UK) and digital video by Christina McPhee with Terry Hargrave and
Sariah Storm. More project details can be found at :
<http://www.christinamcphee.net/cpdstrikedipslip.html>

<www.transportgallery.com>
<www.carrizoparkfielddiaries.net>


SW: I'm looking at an image of a young girl in an orange coat
<http://www.christinamcphee.net/carrizoparkfielddiaries/album/pages/
matrixial.htm>

CM: This is a piece called Matrixial; first of all I should say that
the scale of this piece is 44" by 92"–