"Patrick Tarrant. 2004. Planet usher: an interactive home movie. In Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 987-988. DOI=10.1145/1027527.1027763 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027763" Planet Usher: An Interactive Home Movie is a CD-Rom that draws inspiration and media from my brother's extensive home video archive; an archive that spans twenty years of family events and non-events [1]. What makes even the non-events remarkable, is the fact that my brother went from being a deaf man with a video camera, to a deaf-blind man with an extensive audio-visual archive he can no longer see, nor hear, due to the effects of Usher Syndrome. So Planet Usher offers an exploration of a sustained and enduring amateur practice. It is also a story about disability and the family as they emerge faultingly from the lost archive. And it is a confrontation with the frailties of memory and narrative as they come face to face with the vicissitudes of both interactivity and lived experience.

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