Videos [help me know the truth] Custom software, 4 tablets, network, projector, dimensions variable2017 [help me know the truth] is a complex installation that uses computational neuroscience algorithms to reveal people’s collective unconscious biases. I use the “reverse correlation” method in computational neuroscience to change images and ask visitors to choose one of the altered… Continue reading [help me know the truth]
Category: ALL ARTWORK
[play your place]
Video [play your place] Video game public art platform, software, video documentationdimensions variable2013-2016 [play your place] is an open public artwork and online game-building system. Artists Mary Flanagan and Ruth Catlow, as LOCALPLAY, use drawing and play as a way to catalyze and translate local, speculative visions of place into games that not only communicate community… Continue reading [play your place]
[mapscotch] – [bombscotch]
[mapscotch] ongoing performance seriesdimensions variable2012 With hopscotch as a starting point, players either design their own versions of a [mapscotch] or encounter one in the gallery. Twenty years’ worth of my [mapscotch] instructions are collected in a book that’s published in three languages. I am interested in the way that embodied play can act as… Continue reading [mapscotch] – [bombscotch]
[Sol Lewitt Mashup]
[Sol Lewitt Mashup] Software, videodimensions variable2012 In honor of generative systems and instruction based drawing, this program is a mashup that interprets and enacts Lewitt’s Drawing Series III/2314/ B (1969) and Composite Series (1970) to create a visual computational abstract experience, making the once static geometries produced by the drawing instructions intimate and dynamic through… Continue reading [Sol Lewitt Mashup]
[pile of secrets]
[pile of secrets] Video series, game footage, monitorsdimensions variable2011-2013 What is a game but a pile of secrets? I captured several terabytes of video imagery from computer games published from 1980 – present, exploring the question, “What makes a game a game?” Common ludic elements –typically formal elements — across video games are assembled from… Continue reading [pile of secrets]
[borders]
Video A video excerpt from my walk around Aquitaine Castle in France. A video excerpt from my walk around the virtual construction of Chichen Itza, a Mayan archaeological site on the Yucatán Peninsula in contemporary Mexico. Video excerpt from my walk around Villa Almerico-Capra, also known as ‘La Rotonda’, a 16th century manor house and… Continue reading [borders]
[perfect.city]
Video [perfect.city] 2 channel videodimensions variable2009 [perfect.city] is an exploration of the South Korean city of New Songdo before it was actually build. New Songdo was a planned futuristic smart city built from scratch outside of Incheon. The city was entirely developed by corporations (Gale International, with a digital infrastructure designed by tech companies) to… Continue reading [perfect.city]
[xyz]
Video [xyz] Three interactive game stations, video projection, game software with soundDimensions variable2009 There is an ancient desire to expand poetry’s expressive potential by integrating visual elements and break free from a purely linear text. Shaped poems in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese and Sanskrit suggest a common human urge to more closely model written… Continue reading [xyz]
[from the ranks]
[from the ranks] series, textile, performancedimensions variable2007 I come from a family with a long history of service in the US military, beginning with a great great grandfather who served during the Civil War, my father, brother, uncles– and even my niece, who raised her newborn near the Air Force base where her husband was… Continue reading [from the ranks]
[arborescence]
[arborescence] Paper, models, software, computerdimensions variable2006 [arborescence] is an interactive installation using the gradual growth patterns of forests and trees as a metaphorical structure to map time, space and language. Making physical the routine internet actions of searching, tagging and streaming RSS feeds [arborescence] creates a contextual time-scape in which interests grow and change over time.… Continue reading [arborescence]