NOT ALL DIGITAL MANIPULATION is nefanous. As part of a travtllngexhib4tionthat featured patnlmgsanddrawings by the Me1t1can muralist Jose Cleme nte Orozco, Fand and Jethro Roth e- Kus hel '03 produced a vrrtuat tour of Orozco's U.S. mu rals. One of the most famous mu rals by Orozco 1s ~ The Epic of American Civili zation,'" in Oartmouth's BakerLrbrary. S1nce Orozcocreatedfewpubllc frtscoes duringhis careerintheU.S., and smcethese gra ntmasterpteces could not travel with the ex hibit, Farid and Rothe- Kushel wantedmorepeople to be abtetosuandapprec1alethese complex works of art. They startedw1th d1gltalphotographsof sectionsof the murals, and mampulated them, rtattemng them out and pastmgthemback togetherto createa three-dimensional, "tirtual,..,ewmgexpen ence ·1 wasattractedtothis pro1ectbecauseuaChicano, 1t 1s very rare to find such a bold , a rtistic depletion ofAmencanhistorythatr ea llytell s the storyof my ancestors.· says Rothe- Kushet.a native of Los Angeles a ndarel191o nma1or1nterested1n computerscience andf1lmmakmg . Farid and Rothe-Kushel's virtual murals complemented the 2002-2003travelingexh1bit1onlhatwn installedatthe Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth as well as at museums in San Diego and Mexico City. Orozco's U.S. murals la nd othe rexamplesofFa n d'swork} canbeseenonlineat www.cs dartmouth edu/fand/ orozco/. >> Susan Knapp Using satellite t