{"id":978,"date":"2010-03-25T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=978"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:50:47","slug":"rucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2010\/03\/25\/rucker\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Proliferation Audio Video Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/paulrucker.com\/\">Paul Rucker&#8217;s<\/a> new installation, Proliferation, inspired by the map of <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/atlas\/proliferation1900-2000.html\">U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000<\/a> by PPI&#8217;s <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/alumns.html#t_Rose_Heyer\">Rose Heyer<\/a> has just been posted in its full version to his website.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about prison-based gerrymandering for the liner notes of the in-production DVD version. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/paulrucker.com\/projects\/proliferation\/#\/images\/sized\/images\/uploads\/photogallery\/Proliferation1-602x400.jpg\">watch the full video<\/a> online. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160419124523\/http:\/\/www.cityartsmagazine.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/paul-ruckers-soundscape-tracks-us-prisons\">CityArts<\/a> described the piece:<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">In September, City Arts covered the interdisciplinary show at Cornish College of the Arts that included Paul Rucker&#8217;s multimedia work, which often incorporates sound and visual graphing of some sort to get viewers to interact with the work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\"> His multimedia piece Proliferation, which debuted at that show, tracks the growth of prison systems in the U.S. since the 19th century in a slow progression of animated mapped statistics complemented with a beautiful, though erratic, musical score. The work is a great example of art successfully taking on an activist role &#8212; effective, without being heavy-handed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\"> It made me cry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/paulrucker.com\/projects\/proliferation\/#\/images\/sized\/images\/uploads\/photogallery\/Proliferation1-602x400.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/ruckervideosnap.jpg\" alt=\"video image\" width=\"590\" height=\"356\"  \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Paul Rucker&#8217;s new installation, Proliferation, inspired by the map of U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 by PPI&#8217;s Rose Heyer has just been posted in its full version to his website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9917,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}