Whispering Galleries:
Documenting Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse's Interactive Poetry Project

Introduction

Whispering Galleries by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse is a 2014 site-specific, interactive, multimedia poetry project that uses a reader’s gestures to transform a local diary into erasure poetry on the screen. As readers gesture over the computer, transcriptions from a New Haven shopkeeper’s 1858 diary dissolve as so much digital dust, leaving behind a shimmering poem. Through a webcam, the participant’s shadow emerges behind the words, creating a symbolic link between the viewer and the work. Like the whispering gallery architecture referenced by the title, the project transmits “whispers” from the past across time.

Project Website
Whispering Galleries: App

About this site

This site documents Whispering Galleries and compiles primary materials, history, and commentary about the project.

Alejandro Echeverria and Stacy Reardon 

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