The following clip shows a virtual flyover of the planned 9/11 memorial site. In a sense, it is an image of the projected future that points back towards a memorialised past...
And here is one of the initial news reports from CNN:
Images from 9/11 have also raised ethical questions about remembering and forgetting. Perhaps most notable is the debate about the famous photo of the 'falling man'. In this article from Esquire, Tom Junod argues that the story behind this image and the subsequent attempts to identify the man depicted in it 'are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day'.
Still another media experience of 9/11 is available through composer William Basinski's Disintegration Loops. In August and September of 2001, Basinski was in the process of digitizing compositions that he had created in the 1980s. In the process, however, he noticed that the tapes were beginning to disintegrate as he played them. Fascinated by the effect, he created several loops and recorded the sound of their gradual deterioration over time. The completion of the project coincided with the 9/11 attacks. According to this account on hauntedink.com, Basinski and his friends
went on the roof of his building and played the Loops over and over, all day long, watching the slow death of one New York and the slow rise of another, all the while listening to the death of one music and the creation of another.Basinski chose to dedicate the Disintegration Loops to the victims of 9/11. The cover images on each of the four albums consist of photographs taken by Basinski on the day of the attacks.
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