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1. The Distributed Legible City

   A later version of The Legible City (1989) encompasses all the experiences offered by the original version, but introduces an important new multi-user functionality that to a large extent becomes its predominant feature. In the Distributed Legible City there are two or more bicyclists at remote locations who are simultaneously present in the virtual environment.They can meet each other (by accident or intentionally), see abstracted avatar representations of each other, and when they come close to each other they can verbally communicate with each other.

   While the Distributed Legible City shows the same urban textual landscape as the original Legible City, this database now takes on a new meaning. The texts are no longer the sole focus of the user's experience, but instead becomes the con_text (both in terms of scenery and content) for the possible meetings and resulting conversations (meta_texts) between the bicyclists. In this way a rich new space of co-mingled spoken and readable texts is generated. In other words the artwork changes from being merely a visual experience, into becoming a visual ambiance for social exchange between visitors to that artwork.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 12:23

2. Vicissitudes

   The installation consisted of a six foot ladder and a chalk outline of a body on the floor, with two audio soundtracks, one of people talking about "up" times in their lives and one of people talking about feeling "down". When visitors climbed the ladder, the "up" soundtrack was played more loudly, and vice versa. Utterback writes in her 2004 essay "Unusual Positions": "Through its interface, this piece explores the embodiedness of language itself.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.08.2013 - 15:01