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.
Upcoming April- September 2024, (in progress) “Bastions of Memory: Animating Untold Stories of Fort Point”, a video artwork projected onto the interior historic bastions, Fort Point National Historic Site, San Francisco.
My great-grandfather and great-great grandparents and other ancestors have been buried in a Jewish Cemetery in Germany since the 1800s. During the Nazi period the cemetery was desecrated and in World War Two it was destroyed and later paved over as a parking lot, which it has remained for over 60 years. I am recovering the history of the cemetery and I am working on a proposal with the town to create a memorial and return the paved over cemetery as a memorial park.
A short dreamlike tour, reimagines and visually explores 73 Gross Strasse, the former house of my Great-Great Grandparents, that was confiscated by the Gestapo in 1939, and demolished in 1940. During the past year I have been recovering this lost family story and have recreated their house and Textile Shop in Strausberg, Germany, as a 3D model and animation, an artistic process of cultural recovery and repair.
Over the past year I have been engaged in the process of researching and applying for my great-grandfathers and other ancestors who were victims of the Holocaust. In March 2024, I will be visiting Berlin and suburbs Strausberg, and Seelow, the home towns of my grandparents to lay Stolperstein for my great-grandparents.
I was thrilled and honored to participate in a panel "Art Activating Historic Places", with Cheryl Haines of the FOR-SITE Foundation and Frank Smigiel, Director of Arts and Programming at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.
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