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Tracing the Decay of Fiction
Encounters with a Film by Pat O'Neill
2002
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"Tracing the Decay of Fiction is an archeological exploration of the Hotel Ambassador, a vintage building now vacant that was erected in 1920 and played a crucial role in the development of Los Angeles. Well known for its glamorous Cocoanut Grove nightclub where Hollywood stars and movie moguls mingled with foreign dignitaries and wealthy tourists, this hotel was also the site of one of our nation's most disturbing events—the 1968 assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. Visitors wander through these abandoned rooms encountering cultural traces of the historical events and personal stories that occurred there. Inside the Ambassador, borders blur between past and present, history and fiction"—Container.
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Rosemary Comella
Rosemary Comella
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Rosemary Comella has been working since 2000 as a researcher, project director, interface designer and programmer at the Labyrinth Project. As part of Labyrinth, she developed the main interface for Tracing the Decay of Fiction: Encounters with a Film by Pat O’Neill, a collaborative project between experimental filmmaker [Pat O’Neill](https://www.goodreads.com:443/search/search?q= Pat O’Neill " Pat O’Neill"), Kristy H.A. Kang and the Labyrinth team, and she helped direct The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Current of the River, an interactive installation with filmmaker Péter Forgács. Additionally, she developed Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986, an interactive installation and DVD-ROM, in collaboration with media artist Andreas Kratky, cultural historian Norman M. Klein and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany. She directed and served as photographer for Cultivating Pasadena: From Roses to Redevelopment, an installation and DVD-ROM, including catalog, exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2005. Comella is currently creative director for Jewish Homegrown History: Immigration, Identity and Intermarriage,a public on-line archive and museum installation that aims to illuminate one hundred and fifty years of Jewish history in California. Through a visually engaging interface users are invited to practice their own historiography by inserting their own histories and memories—using text, home movies, photographs and ephemera—into the contents of the website. This user content becomes interwoven with previously published histories and newly uploaded scholar contributions. Additionally, an immersive museum installation will feature various select home movies, photographs and stories collected from the website to be re-orchestrated for particular themes for a multi-screen, cinematic presentation.
Kristy H.A. Kang
Kristy H.A. Kang
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Kristy H.A. Kang is a practice-based researcher whose work navigates the triangulation of place, geographies, and cultural memory. She is Associate Professor of Urban Media Art and Design at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts holding joint appointments in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and The Design School. Prior to joining ASU, she was Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and received her doctorate in media arts and practice at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. Her research interests combine urban and ethnic studies, mapping, and emerging media arts to visualise cultural histories of cities and communities. Her works have been presented at the Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea; the Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; and the Jewish Museum, Berlin, among others and received the Jury Award for New Forms at the Sundance Online Festival.

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