Vern Hume and Don Stein’s CD-ROM installation, Undiscovery, is a multimedia database that deals with the discovery and subsequent colonization of Banff, and explores the park area in the context of changing perceptions of space, movement and identity brought about by advances in digital technology and tendencies toward globalization. Rather than drawing borders, this experience involves an active trajectory between places, identities and social formations. Undiscovery embodies a peculiarly twentieth-century preoccupation with art and revolution playing themselves out in a realm of amusements and commodities. Constructed like an interactive video arcade game, the software invites “cyber-explorers” to navigate their own … Continue reading Vern Hume and Don Stein’s installation