Ponte Futuro, 1998

Large format photo transparency from 35mm film mounted on clear Plexiglas  36” x 60”

Cortona, Italy  Medieval village in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany video + installation

Co-collaborators: Sergio Soave, Professor of Art at Ohio State University and Carmon Colangelo, Dean of Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University

“Ponte Futuro is a 1998 site specific video installation in Cortona, Italy. The village of Cortona is located at the base of a very steep incline that rises to an elevated medieval fortress and tower. The concept was to site a video camera in the highest vantage point of Cortona, which was from the fortress tower. Historically these views could warn the village of advancing armies; but now the video could provide real time views of the expansive Tuscan beauty and bringing distant vistas closer. Joysticks controlled the rotation and focus of the video camera's functions. Monitors were placed in the mid level battlements and at the base of the tower.“