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| The First Crusade Revisited is a video installation developing from the installation The First Crusade which in turn was based on the actual historical event. The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the stated goal of capturing the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslims. What started as an appeal to the French knightly class quickly turned into a wholesale migration and conquest of territory outside of Europe. Both knights and peasants from many nations of Western Europe, with little central leadership, travelled over land and by sea towards Jerusalem and captured the city in July 1099, establishing the Kingdom of Jerusalem and other Crusader states. (Wikipedia) In The First Crusade Revisited the digital video animations play on the 4" lcd monitors. The animations were created from images of medieval toy knights both "saracen" and "crusaders". The installation consists ot the lcd monitors plugged into yellow 'pigtails', dvd players with orange coiled cord, green, orange and yellow extension cords, electrical outlets and boxes, audio/video cables and transformers. This configuration of wires, extension cords, monitors and dvd players was created specifically for Art Chicgo 2007. |