Media art for public spaces with Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum
From Creating New Spaces: Interviews with artists redefining spaces through technology by Robin Petterd
February 21, 2025 · 31 min · Episode 22
About this episode
Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum discuss the outdoor installation 'What We Bring' and its exploration of migration and personal history.
What happens when an artwork is shaped by the unpredictability of public space? In this interview Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum discuss What We Bring , an outdoor installation that extends Ariana’s larger documentary project exploring migration, personal history, and overlooked traces of the past. While filming in Athens, Greece, she was drawn to a clothesline hanging in an old neighborhood—a simple yet powerful marker of everyday life. The street, surrounded by century-old markets and remnants of war, embodied layers of history intertwined with personal and familial narratives. This imagery became the foundation of What We Bring , where projected visuals interact with moving fabrics to evoke memory, presence, and impermanence. Ariana is an experimental filmmaker whose projection installations and non-traditional cinematic works explore themes of memory, time, and personal narratives. Monteith McCollum is an inter-media artist working with film, sound, and sculpture. Listen to this podcast to learn about: Adapting media art for outdoor and public space Overcoming challenges of weather when working outdoors Bridging documentary storytelling with the emotional power of…
People in this episode
Host: Robin Petterd
Guests: Ariana Gerstein, Monteith McCollum
Topics covered
- media art
- public spaces
- installation art
- migration
- memory
- documentary storytelling
Keywords
- media art
- public installation
- migration
- memory
- documentary
- Ariana Gerstein
- Monteith McCollum
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: What We Bring
Places: Athens, Greece
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