An ongoing series of custom-built interactive video players about pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.
2019, updated 2021
Box 1: “Sudden Severe Systemic Reaction”
Box 2: “Baby Monitor”
Box 3: “Labor Delivery”
Dimensions: 7″ x 5″ x 3″
Running time: loop
Edition: 5
Each box explores a theme. Viewers are invited to repeatedly open and close the boxes to activate and re-activate video loops, a mix of archival footage and footage of my own children as infants. Fragments of images, incomplete thoughts, constant interruptions: simulations of life with small children.
[2021 Editions with new, improved electronic-guts available at Fuseworks.]
I AM HERE YOU ARE SAFE (Labor Delivery) (2019)
Dimensions 7” x 5” x 3”
Wooden box, Raspberry Pi microcontroller, magnetic switch, video display, speaker
Additional credits:
Sound Mix: Manuel Sander
Fabrication Consultant & Assistance: Cathy C. Cook
I AM HERE YOU ARE SAFE (Baby Monitor) (2019)
Dimensions 7” x 5” x 3”
Wooden box, Raspberry Pi microcontroller, magnetic switch, video display, speaker
Additional credits:
Sound Mix: Manuel Sander
Fabrication Consultant & Assistance: Cathy C. Cook
I AM HERE YOU ARE SAFE (Sudden Severe Systemic Reaction) (2019)
Dimensions 7” x 5” x 3”
Wooden box, Raspberry Pi microcontroller, magnetic switch, video display, speaker
Additional credits:
Sound Mix: Manuel Sander
Fabrication Consultant & Assistance: Cathy C. Cook