The Giver of Names: Documentary Collection

Video-cued recalls

Video-cued recall is a method for recording a verbal description of an experience and accompanying film footage. The participant is video taped whilst they experience the artwork. They are then immediately taken to a separate room where they are shown the video and asked to simultaneously describe their experience in as much detail as possible.

Betty-Jo Betty-Jo, a student, already understands how the work functions and spends some time playing with it...	Christian Christian, a french speaking engineer, has trouble understanding the English words and phrases which slows down his understanding of the work...
Eric Eric, a student in information science, feels very self conscious and almost like he is having to perform...	François François, an artist and horticulturalist, cannot initially work out the interactivity of the work and is confused...
Mary-Beth Mary-Beth, a professional curator and arts-worker, does not realise for a long while that the work is interactive, and feels very confused...	Sarah Sarah, a student, fairly quickly works out from observation the major aspects of the work, but is not sure that she is allowed to interact...
Vera This is Vera's second visit to the exhibition and she already knows how the installation functions...	Vincent Vincent, an archivist, reports his reactions to the objects and his attempts to test the capabilities of the computer to recognise common elements between different objects...