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the Chiros website, installation and public projection will be based on interviews with HIV+ women speaking about how their perception of time and relationship to memory have changed since becoming positive. The women often express both an urgency related to chronological time, and occasional welcomed interruptions by chiros, a perceived suspension of time during happy moments.

The project will begin in Spring 2008 with a workshop for HIV+ women to learn video production skills and create video essays in conjunction with CAMBA.org’s Speaker’s Bureau public voice program. The course will explore time based work as a means of empowerment, culminating with the women creating video essays about their relationship to time. The class will also create an open content web site with a vlog to document the their experience, their final personal essays, and an open course curriculum that will be used and augmented by future Speakers Bureau workshops.

The final project will be both a website and dual channel public projection, to be displayed in various locations throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan on World AIDS day. The left channel will consist of twenty interviews with the women, each three minutes, to be displayed on the hour. The right panel will be an animated data visualization representing the different forms of time the women discuss. The sound will be a mix of the women’s voices with an abstract composition based on the data visualization. The audio will be available via am radio or cell phone. The arresting visual display will create an alternative form of clock and provide a vital focus for community discussion.