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It happened the day after Valentine\'s day, they think. It was
his mother who found them two days later, in the room next to their
bedroom. They couldn\'t get all the blood out of the carpet, so
they just had to cut part of it out.
Sometimes people we think we know do something that makes it clear
that they have a secret life we know nothing about. They are in
fact strangers to us. We can only attempt, in retrospect, to understand
their actions – and them – by trying to put together
pieces of the puzzle, by examining the various aspects of their
lives to see if we can make sense of them.
Extreme Measures is a web work in VRML which uses the metaphor of
the photo cube to suggest the way various areas of our lives can
be segmented, encapsulated, kept separate, and what may happen when
these areas converge. The cube serves as a way to display information
on its face, but also to conceal information within.
Annette Barbier is an artist whose work began
in sculpture and moved through video to new technologies including
computer animation, virtual reality, and net art. Her work addresses
home, domesticity, and the ways in which identity is bound up with
one\'s environment.
Barbier is Director of the Center for Art and Technology and an
Associate Professor at Northwestern University, where she teaches
new media, computer animation, video installation, and experimental
video. Selected video work is distributed by the Video Data Bank.
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