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print this pageInsufficient Memory to Queer American Memorials
Sean Fader
Friday, March 20 - 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Agusta
For Insufficient Memory, I drove 25,000 miles to 38 states to research and photograph locations where 50 queer lives were lost in violent hate crimes in the United States from 1999-2000. At the same time, the Sony Digital Mavica Camera's release brought forth a new era in digital image making. This groundbreaking technology captures images at ⅓MP. Using the antiquated Mavica, I captured images characterized by a deliberate lack of resolution and digital clarity, contrasting sharply with today's digital photographic capabilities. The resulting Google Earth interactive tour (insufficientmemory.org) allows anyone online to access all of my images and research.
After visiting many of these locations, I realized how important it is to create spaces of community healing. I have spent the past year designing a large-scale community-focused nationwide Queer American Memorials Project to mark the locations where queer people were murdered from 1999-2009 with augmented-reality-triggering site markers. I chose these years because it is the ten-year period of time when Congress debated whether LGBTQ people should be a protected class in the National Hate Crimes Bill. I am memorializing the people who died while the politicians talked.
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