Dead Reckoning
Dead reckoning is an outmoded marine navigation system in which new directions are calculated from previous positions. One of the problems with this form of way-finding is that errors in the process build on one another, often leading to drastic disorientation. This interactive video installation employs the strategy of dead reckoning to explore the fictional pirate Long John Silver, who has transmogrified over the past 100 years into the largest fast food seafood chain in the world. The viewer is invited to steer a captain's wheel to navigate through an array of video clips which further extend and confuse the original pirate fantasy.Artist Bio
Chris Todd is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator working solo, collaboratively, and in the public sphere. Ranging from darkly humorous to contemplative, his art draws from personal experiences and an interest in how technology, consumerism, and media affect perception, body, and place. More specifically, Todd's work provokes questions about the role of information and entertainment technologies in daily life and examines the psychological and spiritual impact of living in a culture where first-hand experience and human contact have become increasingly mediated.
Todd's art has been shown in a variety of exhibition spaces, museums, public/commercial sites, and publications. He is currently a Professor of Media Arts at Mesa Community College in the Phoenix Metro Area.