TRACE: a memorial environmental sound installation

I am especially indebted to the poets, musicians, song writers and storytellers who contributed memorial songs, poems and stories to be featured in the first launch of Trace:

Diana Berry Susan Davis Sarah Drury Stelios Gannoulakis Joanna Goodman Henry Israeli Bruce Ledbetter Akiko Matsumoto Lisa Moren Timothy Nohe Mayumi Reinhard Thomas Rodebaugh Vivian Adelberg Rudow Sirpa Vaara and Melora Zaner

Special thanks to Erik Conrad, Digital Artist/Programmer for the project, Summer 1999.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Very special thanks are due to the following people and institutions who have kindly and generously supported this project in many ways:

Sara Diamond
The Banff Centre for the Arts

Red Burns
New York University-Interactive Telecommunications Program

Sergio Canetti
New York University-Interactive Telecommunications Program

Daniel Melia
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric

Shankar Narayanaswamy
Lucent Technologies, Bell-Labs Innovations

Robert Trimble
Trimble Navigation

Judith Young
Apple Canada

Margo Scali
Eddie Bauer

I owe my very deep gratitude to the following people at The Banff Centre for the Arts whose talents and skills were fundamental to the realization of the first phase of development of this project:

Joy Barrett Jed DeCory Steve Nixon Willi Schmidt Richard Agecoutay Luke Van Dyk Aubrey Fernandez Andrew Jaremko Paul Herspiegle Shawn Henry Rhonda Jessen Willi Schmidt Ben West Mark Richardson Chris Segnitz Julian Hall Chris Comrie and the staff in Media and Visual Arts

I am very grateful to the following people who have generously provided invaluable advice and support:

Dan Palkowski, NYU-ITP Robin Wang, NYU-ITP Nick West and Tom Igoe, NYU-ITP Wm Leler, The Banff Centre for the Arts Anne Archambault, The Banff Centre for the Arts Michel Corbou, Independent Curator Steve Roberts, Independent New Media Inventor Andrea Wollensack, Connecticut College Sara Whiteley, Independent Filmmaker and my friends and colleagues at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program