Videos [Colors of Remembrance] Computational Drawings: Custom software, CDC COVID Data, Projectordimensions variable2020-ongoing This project is a virtual memorial to those who died during the COVID19 pandemic. During the lockdown, I would look out the window and wonder if my neighbors were ill or dying. The scale of the crisis was difficult to comprehend. This… Continue reading [Colors of Remembrance]
Category: video
[No More Soft Wonder]
[No More Soft Wonder] Software, robotics, found artificial and natural objectsdimensions variable2019 [No More Soft Wonder] is an installation that explores the increasing corruption of natural life in favor of the artificial. A computational list poem rolls down a long screen, and, using my own handwriting, catalogs elements of sea life. With each iteration of… Continue reading [No More Soft Wonder]
[TOPOESIS]
Video [TOPOESIS] Software, computational poems, pen on archival watercolor paper11″ x 15″27.94cm x 38.1cm2019 [TOPOESIS] is an epic computational poem. As each chapter of the poem appears in my own handwriting, the software generates a new landscape for the poem to fill. This ever-changing landscape shapes and informs the poem. After the poems are completed… Continue reading [TOPOESIS]
[help me know the truth]
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]
[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]
[ineffable]
Video [ineffable] Computer application, digital mapDimensions variable2005 Email is now so pervasive and so essential to our lives that it’s difficult to remember how we communicated prior to its emergence. The ramifications of the nearly wholesale replacement of our physical voice with a detached written text continues to be felt everywhere email is used, whether… Continue reading [ineffable]
[kaleidoglobe]
[kaleidoglobe] Projection onto sphere4′ x 4′122cm x 122cm2004 [kaleidoglobe] is a video projection on a large spherical projection surface utilizing images of routine domestic work typically performed by women. The images began as documentation of three generations of women in my family preparing traditional holiday foods like popcorn balls. These images and others were digitally manipulated… Continue reading [kaleidoglobe]