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5 MATTHEW TEITELBAUM Director's ForewordMatthew TeitelbaumJanet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have worked side by side for more than 22 years. Grand in scale by any conventional definition—ranging from mile-long guided walks through city parks to room-sized installations (Murder of Crows filled 5,000 square meters in the Armory Building in New York)—Cardiff and Miller works are always intimate in texture and feel. Through crisp and concise audio effects, often delivered through state-of-the-art technology, their work seems to speak individually to the viewer/participant. "The room was full," we seem to say, "but they were talking only to me." This feeling of being in the moment with them, a directness of feeling unusual in the work of many contemporary artists, is also encouraged by the construction of the stories they tell. Their immersive works, wound together through spoken word laid out in sequence and with evident and purposeful cadence, seem always to touch upon narratives that involve us. The speaker asks us to look at something she has taken notice of and secretively wants to share with us, or to consider an association she is making where, by invitation, our own reflection completes the moment. Over and over again. Cardiff and Miller present us with an opportunity to use