Sampling Broadway

"Annette Weintraub's work is an investigation of architecture as visual language and the symbolism of space. Sampling Broadway is a virtual tour of five downtown locations along New York City's famous street. The site equates the city with media space through a sampling of images, movies, and animations interspersed with text, voice-over narration and sounds of the street. Weintraub's experimental, multi-layered environment examines the power of place to affect perception, as a series of visual and textual narratives reveal elements of the real, historical and imagined Broadway. PRESS RELEASE: Sampling Broadway creates several eccentric urban spaces inspired by cross-sections of the city intersecting Broadway. The archetypal urban boulevard, once a meandering Indian trail, is the vehicle for exploring layers of history, commerce, the sense of place and personal mythology. The linked QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality) spaces of this piece are inhabited by moving images, sound and text which merge to explore connections between perception, inner life and external environment. Sampling Broadway extends Weintraub's work with architecture as metaphor from still images and multimedia works for the Web into the construction of virtual spaces which can be navigated and actively explored by the viewer." -- From Turbulence