Carrizo Topologies By: Christina McPhee Catalogue entry for Pavilion: Bucharest Biennale 3, 2008 Carrizo Topologies concerns a sustained encounter with Carrizo Plain, where the most prominent seismic feature in California, the San Andreas Fault, is visible northwest of Los Angeles. I went to Carrizo to perform a heal- ing, through an experiment of duration, turning on a spatial analogy: traumatized synapses in the brain are to a performance of mappings, as seismicity is to the generation (by humans or nature) of geomorphic data. Displacing scien- tific visualization into new registers, seismic data score the ?scarring? of neural pathways as a topology. Video animation and large format photomontage store traces of field drawings, remote performance, landscape photography, geomorphologic maps of post-tremor surface activity, and graphs of seismic activity at depth from online geophysical research sites. The images assay a cybernetic terrain of seismic memory. (C.M.) http://www.christinamcphee.net/carrizo/index.html Christina McPhee 2008