This was an extremely innovative use of the medium given its defined purpose, audience and context. The organizational effort around community involvement was exemplary and inspiring. Its impact on the museum field could be significant as it demonstrates new ways to access or reuse information and resources to make an impact in the local community. Documenting the live event and providing the background information with images/rigorous research and interviews was excellent.

 

– Media & Technology Professional Network, American Alliance of Museums.

Spit Spreads Death: The Parade (2019) took the form of an interactive parade of light and sound on the streets of Philadelphia. The work commemorated the individuals who lost their lives in the 1918 flu pandemic, and the health workers who put their own lives on the line in times of crisis.

Hundreds of citizens from across the city – and beyond – each chose one person to honour who died on the deadliest day: 12th October 1918. They paraded with the death certificate of that person. And one by one, took a moment to stop walking as the parade flowed past them. For a few moments, they stood alone between two of the large sculptures in a corridor of blinding white light.