A multimedia DVD, and seed packet. Users view 12 audio-visual "catastrophes" over a 12-month period, and two years hence, harvest the fast-growing plants to make their own paper. At that time, they are given access to a web-site with further text to be printed on the paper, which can only be viewed in hard copy. This hard-copy story provides electronic codes to unlock further audio-visual catastrophes that can be viewed at that time, and in the future, with further harvested self-made paper, for a total period of 32 years.
This collaboration between Davis Schneiderman, digital artist Tom Denlinger, and composer Donald C. Meyer merges time-extended art with the an audio/visual/tactile experience-serving as a "Catastrophe" occurring in the present, representative of a socio-political climate increasingly cordoned off by the representative fears of terrorism, bio-disease outbreaks, and natural disasters.
