Sun Mutations - work in progress (2011) |
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Sun Mutations is a two-part installation which begins to investigate the afterlife of information and its transfer from one medium to another and from one form of energy to another. Visual and audio data will be collected and translated using simple circuitry and processing to more closely examine these data links by creating a series of open pathways, where the powerful rays of the sun are reduced to an iridescent glow. The aesthetic and sculptural forms these absorptions and releases of energy (translated to data) take on, rather satirically serve to reflect a human desire to not only control and harness the power of the sun, but time itself. Like its obsessive subject, this Icarus machine, mutates the energy it records, until it too becomes a dim shadow of the blinding light it once was. view image
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Musicox (2011) |
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Musicox is an auto-playing musical instrument consisting of 12 vibrators, a set of water-filled glasses, and a microcontroller. The instrument generates a number of music box songs by systematically switching on and off different vibrators. Because the glasses are filled to specific pitches, and because the vibrators are place against the glasses, their scripted vibrations are heard as a tune.
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The Sociable Pint (2009-10) |
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The Sociable Pint investigates the use of networked objects, not to further an impersonal trajectory of media, but to encourage and augment face-to-face conversation.
Through the introduction of Pint-to-Pint (P2P) networking, bar glasses become social objects themselves, mapping themselves onto the existing network of people, in turn inserting a new layer of sociability within the space.
By networking pint glasses capable of sensing, recording, and interpreting gestural data, the glasses can collectively provide direct intervention onto the social fabric within the bar space.
The project page can be found here: sociablepint.net. |
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Open Columns (2007) |
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Open Columns is a mutable architecture that responds to its inhabitants by changing its shape based upon the carbon dioxide (CO2) content in the air. It is capable of learning about its environment by directly acting within it. The genesis of this research and design comes out of an interest in self-organizing systems, which exhibit phenomena of nonlinearity, instability and adaptability.
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Parklights (2006) |
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Parklights is an exploration of pedestrian traffic as it is situated within the urban park environment. As an individual passes by each one of the lights, the embedded motion sensors picks up the event and stores it. Over a period of time, this information is replayed, presenting artifacts from previous human transits.
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Underwear (2006) |
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Underwear uses live image data from lewd web cam portal sites and represents them in a context where the original perverse connotations are lost. Based on the amount of area web cam exhibitionists take up in the frame, the type and amount of motion, the web cams images are represented as polka dots in real-time and projected on a pair of [unsoiled] tighty-whities. As the original web cam image changes, the size, shape and color of the polka dots change.
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The Pattern - excerpt (2003) |
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The Pattern is an hour-long video that I made with Maris Malejs and Jim Bromley. I composed and performed all the music, and edited the video.
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Conceal/Reveal (2002) |
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Conceal/Reveal is a video installation projected onto plaster heads. It is about what is thought, but not spoken; that which yearns to be conveyed but remains trapped within the turbulent head.
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Fragment (2002) |
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An experimental video.
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Hotdogs for Communism (2002) |
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In collaboration with Chris Ault, Jim Bromley, Greg Chapman, Maris Malejs, Brandon Merkel, Jeff Walton, and Chad Williams
Hotdogs for Communism was a installation in Fredonia, NY. As people filed out of a orchestra concert, we gave out free hot dogs amongst the cold grey walls of King Concert Hall. Surrounded by giant video projections displaying short segments of video, the audience was confronted with situation which was both spectacular and absurd.
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The Lion and the Mouse (2001) |
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Voice: Monica Bucur
The Lion and the Mouse is a Flash animation based upon Sheri Lewis' poem. I created the animation, wrote and performed the music, and recorded the voice.
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