http://ccdigitalpress.org/reconstructingthearchive/campbell.html

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Video:

The speaker is a young woman, over whose face is superimposed a shattered image that traces out the features of another face. The speaker’s lips do not sync with the audio track. At the word “reprocessing,” the face is flipped horizontally and partially covered by a swath of blue pixels in the top left corner.

Audio: 

[background music]

“I began to see an inventory the relations between past and future. This caused me to be interested in how change happens over time, language, person, and material. What I saw and could quantify was how we could make futures out of our past materials, which began by being very careful not to hermeneutically map our present selves or my present self onto the materials of the past, but by allowing the material to speak through me. This is a kind of reprocessing.