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Self Monitoring Analysis Reporting Technologies
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• Letter to an Unknown Friend/ Take a Letter , 2004

The project was created for the Sacred Spaces exhibition in collaboration with Dee Hibbert-Jones.

Installation (Letters to an Unknown Friend)
Visitors were invited to sit at the old fashioned desk and typewriter, then scroll through a computer program to read a series of 40 letters which had been discarded at the San Francisco landfill. The installation combined a 1950's office environment with an interactive manipulated computer/typewriter/ LCD screen, programmed using Macromedia (pre-Adobe!) Director.
Installed later at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (San Francisco, 2005) and Salt Lake City Art center (2007-8)

Performance (Take a Letter)
The performance was set as a 1950’s office with nine performers. Take a letter invited the audience to bring in letters of significance to them. Scribes wrote these letters onto the walls of the installation, and stenographers took notes about each letter that was brought in to the performance.

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Letters to an Unknown Friend, Salt Lake City Art Center (SF Recycled), 2007


Letters to an Unknown Friend, Salt Lake City Art Center (SF Recycled), 2007


Take a Letter - scribe. 2004

Wall at the end of Take a Letter performance, 2004


Take a Letter (the manager), 2004


Screen shot of interactive interface, 2004

Screenshot of interactive interface, 2004
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, or S.M.A.R.T. (sometimes written as SMART), is a monitoring system for computer hard disks to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures.