THE HARVEST is a photographic study of the Burgundian vendange recorded in the village of Bouzeron in the Cote Chalonaise. The installation employs four bands of images and text each using differing compositional forms to incorporate various stages of production and representation in a finished work. This series and the related film, The Language of Wine, explore how the terminology of a metier can serve as metaphors in the individual expression of personal views and goals The work was supported with funding from the Chicago Group On Modern France and elsewhere and the film has been featured in electronic media arts exhibitions and film festivals such as Documenta Madrid. Elements of this work are published in the CD-ROM Cultures In Webs: Working in Hypermedia With The Documentary Image (Eastgate.com) and as the DVD, The Language Of Wine (www.Languageofwine.com).
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[Bio c. 2010] Roderick Coover is Associate Professor at Temple University, where he teaches courses in visual research and documentary methods. He specializes in multimedia forms of representation. His works include, among others, Cultures in Webs: Working In Hypermedia With The Documentary Image (www.culturesinwebs.com), From Verite To Virtual: Conversations On The Frontier Of Documentary Film And Visual Anthropology (www.der. org), The Theory Of Time Here (www.vdb.org), The Language Of Wine: An Ethnography Of Work, Wine And The Senses (www.languageofwine.com), Unknown Territories (www.unknownterritories.org), and the forthcoming book project Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technologies In The Humanities And Arts (University of...
Ethnographic Terminalia first exhibition was a group exhibition of installation works that showed at the Ice Box gallery (Crane Arts, Philadelphia)