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Ben Wood is devoted to exploring site-based history, and telling history in public space through new media, video and projected art for the general public. He connects people with site and history through site-based projection art.

PROPOSALS & UNREALIZED PROJECTS

Jüdischen Friedhof Seelow

Jüdischen Friedhof Seelow

Jüdischen Friedhof Seelow

My ancestors have been buried in a Jewish Cemetery in Germany since the 1800s. During the Nazi period the cemetery was desecrated and destroyed during World War Two.  Following the war it was paved over as a parking lot, which it has remained for over 60 years.  I am recovering the history of the cemetery and working on a proposal with the town to create a memorial and return the paved over land as a park. 

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San Francisco Monuments

Jüdischen Friedhof Seelow

Jüdischen Friedhof Seelow

Proposals to animate and activate the befallen monuments
of Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse in San Francisco.





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George Washington Murals

Portrait of an Enlisted Soldier

Portrait of an Enlisted Soldier

The following concepts are my effort to open the conversation towards civil and empowered ways to interpret the Life of Washington murals that will keep them in public view by using digital media and interpretive art in an affirmative way without adversely affecting the historical murals.

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Portrait of an Enlisted Soldier

Portrait of an Enlisted Soldier

Portrait of an Enlisted Soldier

This video was originally conceived as a Quadriptych projected video work onto the windows of building 102 in the Presidio of San Francisco. 

The following is raw video of Portrait of an Enlisted solider, sharing photographs by Tucker Beckett with excerpts narrated from his diary. 

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Essays

California's Hidden Sacred Mural: The History of the Painted Adobe Reredos at Mission Dolores

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Lost letters from the ghetto: Finding post cards from my Great-Grandfather

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"Life of Washington Mural", Forthcoming in 2024 book, Interrogative Design, MIT Press

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"Man at the crossroads, looking with hope and high vision to a new and better future", MIT Thesis

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My Path to Citizenship

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