Interview “experts” (science or pseudo-science)
Generate stories / narratives based on interviews
Audio histories, radio interviews, scientific interviews
Human preservation: cryogenics, mummies, pyramids, Anasazi / Mesa Verde
Time capsules: bomb shelters, audiotapes from, Japanese time capsule
Space capsules: Golden Record, KEO
Time machines – scientific & fictional attempts to create one
Space / Astronauts: astronaut / Russian cosmonaut training; Yuri Gregaran (sp) Russian cosmonaut - Siberian camp; emotional state and strain of those who go into space (crazy diaper lady); space shuttle devices: toilet, exercize machines, vacuuming sweat.
Objects, as artifacts, perhaps with some senses subtracted; individual ideas of objects vs collective story; finding common elements in unconscious experience of foreign things; generating stories based on objects, as a group/individual; freestanding doors and windows
Guides (audio / visual – museums): how they work, could be manipulated in performance
Looking into the future vs. looking into the past (archeologists vs. futurists)
Akashic record / group consciousness
Garbage halo around the earth, what that means, how that happened
Ghost towns, industrial cities: what happened to the ghost towns (mining towns, timber towns); what are the boom towns now; when internet boom collapsed, infrastructure was still there but now it’s being used for something else; cities before they became “the city” – like Manhattan 200 years ago.
Landfill / junkyard in San Francisco, artist residency – you can work there and use anything you can find.
Chuck E. Cheese animatronic animals – some dude bought them, is reprogramming & filming them on You Tube
Intelligent Design – the Wedge Document
Neurology, mind/body disorders: Oliver Sachs; amnesia / brain damage/ alzheimers; phantom pain; tourettes syndrome; different functions of brain – left brain, right brain, eyesight, dream state, memory – what happens when works, what happens when doesn’t.
The Power of Ten: zooming out (universe) & zooming in (atoms)
Subliminal messages – in advertising, in music – how to influence people w/o them realizing: advertising images on buildings only seen when you look at a picture taken w/ your cell phone; soda machines in Japan saying subliminally “buy a coke”
Futuristic fashion: styles from the past, real styles vs. what was put into time capsules; futuristic styles – metallic, white/sanitary – vs. “present” styles recycling looks from the past; cosmonaut outfits – a fold down tool kit in your chest – David Eckert.
Stretch Armstrong – toy w/ jelly stuff inside
Science fiction graphics – choir of singing women in test tubes
Tesseracting – bending time
Failed technologies: zeppelin, watercycle
Journals of long exporations – Antarctica, train across Russia
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