Adrift

About: This text was projected on three screens as part of a streamed, live performance at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, that included sound and VRML. For more information about Adrift, click here.

	I. PRELUDE
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	early morning clouds yield to sun as high pressure builds off the New England coast
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	II. TERMINAL
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		Upper Bay Longitude 74 '04 W Latitude 40 '39 N
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	passengers talk quietly
the room hums with ventilation
	pigeons swoop down from high girders, slide across the smoothe floor to peck at trash and crumbs	JavaScript Error: grabCookies is not defined
		A BELL RINGS
	A BELL RINGS
A DOOR SLIDES OPEN
	A DOOR SLIDES OPEN
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	Passengers crowd the gangways
then peel off and seat themselves in rows of plank seats		then peel off and seat themselves in rows of plank seats
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	The air smells of salt and oil and creosote
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	...You have to remember, you're carrying anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand passengers.
	Passengers can get sick, they can have arguments, and fights. Numerous things you can expect. Somebody is fainting, somebody has a heart attack...
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	And suicides....
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	III. ON WATER: SPACE/FOG
The wake courses out behind, moves away in a direction parallel to travel..............		spilling foam into the dark waters
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		freighters hang at anchor
	freighters hang at anchor
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pleasure boats	police and coast guard vessels	tour boats move across the harbor
tugs churn the grey waters	nudging fully laden container ships toward the Kill	tugs churn the gray waters
safe navigation water depths: up to 52 feet
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	The worst thing is someone else jumpin in the water when they spot the person that's still afloat, to jump in the water and try to save him. Now we have two people to save. And this has happened many a time where the person jumpin in the water didn't realize it was that cold or that the current was that strong. We had to go save him too...
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Harbor Tides: Search by Zip Code or Location
	**** PLEASE NOTE **** dredging has unintentionally degraded the NOAA tidal current information.
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		Longitude 74'02 Latitude 40'41W N
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A haze lingers over the harbor	visibility is strained
		Long winged gulls eye the ferry's wake
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	IV. WEBCAMS
	http:// camcity.com/webcameraresource/ cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID1567 http://www.discovery.com/cams/cams.html
		http://webcams.com
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http://windowsmediamns.com/Ondemand/ondemand.asp?Cat=WC
	Unseasonably cool air moves through the region
http://ship-service.com
on the far shore	a gleaming city	perches like an architect's model
		between two rivers
Fragments of color: gold, green and silver		are visible
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http://somewhere.org	in an ever- changing, visually fluid arena of play
	http://turbulence.org
	V. ON BOAT
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	The information transmitted here is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed	The information transmitted here
	And I had the vantage point of being up the highest, in the pilot house...
and may contain confidental and/or privileged material
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	...And I could see this person sinking into the water, and thinking that I'm watching someone die.
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Passengers crowd the forward deck ocean air on their faces...
there is a flash of teeth, a hi- pitched squeal		there is a flash of teeth, a hi- pitched squeal a young man points
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	VI. OVERBOARD
the ferry slows, its wake caught in currents	that twist its course	bubbles break and disappear
Beneath the harbor's surface, a network of sensors measures the current, water levels and winds.
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Tons of river-borne silt clog the harbor's shipping lanes
	ZS - Switching, control and transfer circuits
close to shore tangles of broken reeds and urban debris mix in turbulent pools	http:// 64.7.41.98/adrift	that spin off and disappear in larger currents larger
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	water circulates in all directions
water circulates in all directions
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		Nothing moves. Except what moves below, in muddy darkness
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	fine gas bubbles from the decomposing detritus infuse the muds
striped bass gather in the lee of the current
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	VII SPACE/DOCKING
fair weather cumulus form above the horizon
	north winds diminish to 15 kt becoming locally onshore waves are 1 ft. or less
	Click here to obtain the PORTS screen display
	VIII DOCK
Longitude 74 '01 W Latitude 40 '42 N
	below the green high water mark	hungry barnacles wait the incoming tide
height: five to six feet two high, two low each day
HIGH LOW Day Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht Time Ht Rise Set Phase Today 12:15a 5.5 0 1:01p 5.2 0 6:42a 0.4 0 6:59p 0. 3 5:32a 8:30p
		seahorses pick food off the pilings
oysters camouflaged in brown silt cling to crevices in the rocks in the seawall
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	To be Continued	[TOP]

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