The Museum of Rumour website uses the great avant-garde writer Gertrude
Stein as the primary node for a network of association and influence in six
frames. Each of these has a life of its own, aptly titled Œdegrees of
separation. They include rumours of war, cats (feral, domestic and
Tourneur's Cat People film), the Gene-Hackman French connection, Our Lady of
Coogee and a set of Steinian cups that fall and clink and spill the writer's
words. There's a Stein page where clicking on scrolling lines of letters
triggers an acrobatic dance of words (lesbian, postmodern, writer...) and
sounds. There's also a delightful ŒInterferometer with an active grid that
responds like an oscilloscope to the speed of rumour at your choice of
drift, walk, wander, meander, lurk or float. This is a good-humoured, finely
made, altogether eccentric museum that suggests different ways of archiving
experience and tracing the lateral paths of memory and association.
Keith Gallasch, from his review of The Museum of Rumour in RealTime No 59
http://www.realtimearts.net/