'Container' is a web based depository for memories created in the virtual reality modelling language VRML. It was originally commissioned by curator Sylvie Parent for The Montreal Bienalle in October 2000
http://www.ciac.ca/biennale2000/fr/electro.html It was comprised of endless individual containers for storage enabling the user to release the remembrances, thoughts, memories, nightmares of a person or place or incident past and 'deposit' them inside a virtual storage unit. Containers could be visited, added to and changed or left privately secure for ever. The site is now archived for viewing so that you can browse and if you wish register at a virtual reception as at any regular storage place. You will be asked to fill out a form and indicate what you wish to be put into your unit. Digital images, sounds, movies, 3D objects and text are possible including html pages. 'Container' uses the web environment as a form of consciousness which holds and contains these memories thereby liberating the users mind from such a responsibility. "In the midst of life we are in death" says the UK Anglican funeral service but in death where are we? When someone dies where do they go and where do we remain in relation to them? Can we plot the co-ordinates where it is within our consciousness that they remain, haunting, becoming memories, sharing our space and affecting our real world... no but we can perhaps give the memories new and different co-ordinates so that they can exist somewhere else. If their body rests inside a grave then their memory can rest inside a container.
During June and July 2001 'Container' was being shown as part of the UK Exhibition "Silent Motion"
NB. These worlds were optimised to use the Cosmo Player plug-int o view the worlds. Unfortunately this is no longer available, information and links on replacem,ent plug-ins is on the right hand side top page.