Until Feb. 6, 2000, the Art Gallery of Windsor (www.mnsi.net/∼agw) features Le Détroit, a new film installation and exhibition of photographs by Canadian multimedia artist Stan Douglas. Drawing on years of research in the Detroit area, Douglas examines the social conditions that give rise to the decay of modern cities, of which Detroit is an extreme example. His colour photographs expose the processes by which historical memory is overwritten by social change and the encroachment of nature upon the urban landscape. Inspired by the city's long-standing association with machines and industry, the film installation is an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House and Marie Hamlin's 1883 chronicle, Legends of Le Détroit, a compilation of oral histories that circulated among people of aboriginal and European descent living in the region between the mid-17th and early 19th centuries. Douglas reinterprets the conventions of popular media - in this case, horror movies and electronic music - to explore the impact of technology on the social imagination. FIGURE