79 Days
79 Days (English version) is a networked documentary hypermedia project that looks at the media coverage of the wars in Iraq and Kosovo. Images of media coverage of the Kosovo war in 1999, interviews with Kosovars and Serbs about the war (recorded on travel in the Balkans in 2001) and live image search results for the war in Iraq are brought together. The title of the work refers to the duration of the war in Kosovo. The piece consists of 3000 files, 40 minutes of streamed video, and an ever-changing number of live generated Google image search results. Activated by the viewer the narrative thread links an extensive image database of media coverage of the 79 days of the Kosovo war, everyday photographs, streamed video of Kosovars and Serbs, and live image searches for current reporting about the war in Iraq (pulled in from Google). Visitors to the site add terms used in war reporting to the front page that shows a glossary of military and economic terms used in recent war reporting. 45.000 unique visitors.
website: project websitesponsorship: ARTSLINK, SUNY at Buffalo, The Banff Centre