Reverberation
Installation 2009

Some relativists claim that humans can understand and evaluate
beliefs and behaviors only in terms of their historical or cultural
context. We can never separate ourselves from our history but the
proximity to our own history and how we engage with it is ever changing.

"Reverberation" is an installation that takes place in an abandoned
home. Based on the Working Memory model, it consists of three parts:
Sensory Memory, Auditory memory and Visual Memory. On the ground
level of the house a live Video feed is passed into small television
set, where the viewer can see and experience a mediated version of
the current moment in time: the "now". From there the signal is
delayed by a minute and is split into two parts, Auditory and visual
and is dispersed into separate and segregated parts of the upper
level of the house. Through multiple devices (such as a telephone, a
radio and televisions) placed throughout the second floor the
viewers have a chance to reengage in the experience previously had
downstairs .

There is a threshold where these events/experiences no matter how
vivid, become abstract and you become more apathetic towards your own
history. "Reverberation" confronts this threshold.

Reverberation from Tyler Stefanich on Vimeo.