A place toured is a complex of shifting sights and experiences that are sorted, colored, and assembled in the mind of the traveler. There is no single place then, but rather a multiplicity of projected locales. In Ken Kobland's Berlin: Tourist Journal, personal and political speculation create a city with a hybrid topography, bisected by the Wall. Little did the artist know that his imagined metropolis would soon pass into history. Historicity also guides Michael Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce's Mexico, a travelogue about a "nation" constructed out of foreign occupations. In a "ghost geography," we see two worlds collide, one of political oppression, the other of ancient equanimity: the disparities between them cause a defamiliarizing vertigo. Marshall Weber's The Emotional Tourist accepts this vertigo but places it at the heart of cultural displacement. Here, the tourist's fractured visit is articulated in a frantic montage of Egypt in which urban street-life vies with the Pharaohs' noble past. The consuming gaze of the tourist finds peace amidst the historically neutered sites of the Nile Valley, while contemporary Islamic culture threatens to swamp the "emotions." -Steve Seid