Borderline/The Map is not the Territory created for the atrium of the Portland Art Museum is the culmination of the Borderline series. At PAM the installation uses two transparent 17-foot-wide scrims and a floor projection to create a monumentally scaled interactive environment choreographing museum visitors’ explorations of the work. Because of the transparency and scale of the scrims, the projections were replicated over multiple surfaces animating the entire 1700 square foot volume of the atrium. Content was developed through research with open source footage of government surveillance video, of the U.S border, of refugees on the Mediterranean and European footage of their land borders during the crisis in former Yugoslavia. Parallel research investigated U.S. Forest Service scientific imaging of fire behavior and climate monitoring footage from NOAA.Live performance footage investigating generational memory, developed in collaboration with Jaleesa Johnston and Sophia Wright Emigh, completes the content of the piece. Mirror neurons are the empathy machine in humans. The sight of figures within the projections, activates a different quality of responsiveness for viewers and dissolves the separateness too frequently experienced when others are in crisis. In addition to the performance footage, video cameras place viewers in scenes of surveillance at borders around the world, as a way of making us remember we are all implicated and affected by these scenes of catastrophe or dystopia Through creative coding, a series of forty-two scenes, combining video and audio loops with a range of filters and effects, randomly dissolve into each other. Like thoughts coming in and out of focus, this randomization mimics the “stream of consciousness” flow of time vital for creating a liminal space inviting exploration. Initially an investigation of the intersection of climate change, mass migration and government surveillance, ultimately Borderline refers not as much to our current geographical border issues (although that’s in there) as to tipping points between harmony and chaos in the environment and in society, and also to individual psychological tipping points between empathy, and fear.