Description of the Project
This project, is the conclusion of a body of work that started with a computer generated video executed at CFAT (Center for ArtTapes, Computer Scholarship 1997) in Nova Scotia, Canada and is based on events that occurred in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the late 70' and early 80'(see video enclosed).
The complexity and multiplicity of issues that the video presented, inspired me to create a New Media interactive project that addresses in multiple layers the semantics of body politics, performance art and military repressive regimes amongst other subject matters.

In its present interactive format "Confessions of an innocent bystander" embodies and reflects concepts that examine the dialectics of power games and power structures that permeates narratives of individual development under fascist regimes in Argentina and to some extent, South America in general.

I created this work based on events that were tinted by memories and personal experience. While waiting for research material and documentation from Argentina, I started the project manipulating images of previous works towards an overall aesthetics that attempted to de-construct the conformation of cultural identity under military governments and the formation of the homo-erotic gaze in proto-fascist regimes. Once the material arrived from Argentina I felt compelled to edit what I had produced so far in order to overlap the tension between the content of the documentation and the creative aspect of my recollections.

The performative and formal aspects of the work, with the intention of being manipulated by both computer user (on line) and gallery audience (on site) as navigational strategy were documented as:
1. a video-performance entitled "Rehearsal" during the "99°C/F Contemporary Performance Festival" at Anna Leonowells Gallery, 1999 (see p. 5)
2. a tableau viviant entitled "Restitution". Eye level Gallery, NS, Canada. 2001
3. New Media Components to be present at Confessions of an innocent bystander web site: QuickTime movies. Macromedia Flash 3 animations, (see p. 4,6)

The dramatic content of the project, in some cases ameliorated, reflects my evolving feelings and positions regarding the way military governments in South America, particularly in Argentina, had conformed my life previous to my immigration to Canada.
I feel that Confessions of an innocent bystander in its very nature allows for the experimentation in New Media practice, particularly in the ways I envisioned it to present its contents and the design of navigational routes in order to reflect these contesting subject matterson the WWW.