hektor.net

From Rhizome Artbase
2000
Description

hektor.net is a series of vignettes about memory told through experimental pinhole photography, spoken word, and video poetry.

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2021

hektor.net is a navigable artsite of experimental pinhole photography, spoken word and video poetry

nathaniel stern
12 September 2001

hektor.net is a navigable artsite of experimental pinhole photography, spoken word and video poetry. Each vignette is in a performative writing style, and the series collectively explores narrative and storytelling, time and memory, multiplicity and identity, anger and trauma, and the labors of communication. I use technologies unique to digital video in order to accent its many historical references and literary allusions. While viewers surf the site, hektor attempts to re-member: embody a past in the present. Floating memories, re-presented as art pieces, congeal in different patterns; from the “ruins of memory,” viewers re-invent the past and its meaning, piecing together a story for themselves. However, similar to Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch, where readers can tackle any chapter, in any order, to assemble a whole story, this narrative is built by the listener, according to which pieces they have seen, in what context, and in which order. Viewers continually bring new insights to possibility by juxtaposing visited and revisited pieces and ideas several times over.

nathaniel stern
12 September 2001
Legacy descriptive tags
iliad, odyssey, shadowalk, tap, Cornell University, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Ithaca, Johnson Museum of Art, New York University, NY, odys.org, Tisch School of the Arts, Alisa Schwartz, Cornell, hektor, ITP, Johnson Museum, Marianne Petit, Nat Stern, Nathaniel Stern, NYU, odys, oedipus, Tisch
Attribution: nathaniel stern
Visual, Video, Text, QuickTime, Postmodern, Posthuman, Performance, Net.art, Narrative, Memory, Interface, Identity, HTML, Historical, Flash, Contextual, Conceptual, Cinema, Broadcast, Body, Animation
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Metadata
Variant History
outside link
http://hektor.net/
2000
nathaniel stern
static files
12 September 2001
cloning
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