HER VOTE

Her Vote is a multimedia project developed in honor of the 100 years anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in the United States.
The project has encompassed site-specific projection-mapped installations, an animated book about notable suffragists, and augmented reality prints.

Two-channel site-specific animated video Installation, historic clothing, pulleys, twine, washboard 
2K video, 3 min continuous loop (silent)
2020

In this installation, animated vignettes of the suffrage movement are projected on an intricate clothing line, referencing a film set within the setting of early silent film cinema. The set is inspired by clothing lines strung between neighboring apartment buildings during the early 20th century of New York City. The collection of clothing sourced is a combination of authentic period garments (courtesy of Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing, LLC) and contemporary pieces reminiscent of the Edwardian era. Visitors are invited to sit in the theater and gaze up at the clothing of communities connected within an intricate infrastructure of ropes and pulleys.

Animations depict both influential individuals of the movement and the thousands who collectively protested for decades in support of women’s voting rights. Suffragists highlighted are women and men of different backgrounds, who accomplished a great deal yet many still did have the right to vote due to race, ethnicity, and economic status after the amendment was passed. The masses are represented in the thousands of 19th century buttons created for the movement — and as sunflowers, a suffrage symbol. 

A century ago, New York City was in a moment of transition. Women and men filled the streets to protest for the right to vote. First and second waves of the Spanish Flu pandemic had hit the city, as soldiers from World War I were returning home. The silent film industry went on pause, until it became safe to go to the movie theater again. As many women had the opportunity to vote in a presidential election for the first time, it was also the first time an election was broadcasted over the radio; a time when media, technology, political unrest, and a pandemic were at the forefront of the times.  

Augmented Reality Prints

Her Vote Animated Book