- While not as obvious as the performance works, the installations rely heavily on performance,whether it is the spectator or the machine agent created to run the work. These tend to be where I can address issues around media ownership and the fact that the electromagnetic spectrum is public space. More recently I have continued to explore the possibility of non-repeating structures for the installations that use outside data as control, today, why loop when you can produce generative progression?
Paper Cup Telephone Network (PCTN)
The Paper Cup Telephone Network (PCTN) is a free communication system. Just like the games played by children, anyone can put the cup to their ear to listen, or to their mouth to speak. However, the difference between the PCTN and the original game is that the “string” is connected to the world wide web where your voice is streamed to all the cups on the network carrying it blocks or even miles or a continent away. (full description)
a simpel project
Tuning Corridor
Tuning Corridor locates one’s body within the broadcast radio band. The work is an empty corridor that responds to the movement of bodies walking from one end to the other of a sensor-based hallway. People’s movement trough the corridor triggers an invisible bank of radios to tune through the local FM radio band in relation to their location within the hallway. Tuning Corridor confronts the viewer with the awareness that the broadcast radio spectrum is around us all the time by way of physically locating the corporeal experience within one of its broadcast information-spheres (the FM radio frequency band). Through this experience the viewers are able to position themselves within a normally invisible structure, allowing them to interact within it.
AleatoryTV
AleatoryTV is a demonstration of the futility in algorithmically monitoring transmissions by searching for keywords. At its core, the work distills a broadcast television channel, allowing the viewer to watch without becoming seduced by narrative. It is at this uniquely deconstructed juncture that one is not only allowed the space, but the provocation to make unbiased associations regarding the state of our current broadcast infosphere. (full description)
Digital Fibre
Video Coming Soon
released on Volokno (rx-tx)
Digital Fibre is the generative audio-visual portion of the Volokno release. Contained on the CD is a software based algorithm that de-constructs the audio tracks and remixes macro-photographs of the paintings on the booklet. The resultant a/v remix of the separate parts of the release are assembled and regenerated constantly, providing an infinite, always changing, sequence of sound and video. Available for Mac and PC.
Pixave:Denominator:Cubed
Video Documentation
A viewer enters a darkened room; in the opposite corner is a cube on the floor. Images are projected on the top left and right sides. Sound emanates from the cube. The images are the same on all sides.
This piece is the second work in a series of long distance collaborations with Bart Woodstrup. The strategy in which we work is that one person generates a broad concept and we set to work; for this project, myself on the visual portion, and Bart on the aural. We consider both with equal importance. When we are finished we combine the two and see what we have created. No editing occurs to either the audio or visual after the two have merged. The audio is transmitted via the Internet to allow us to collaborate across great distances, albeit “blindly”
For this work in particular we decided to investigate the smallest part of a digital video image and the smallest part of the digital audio signal. The pixel and the wave; Pixave.
1st Prize: Break21 International Exhibition 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Digital Finalist, iFilm.com
Portrait of the Artist
A 16mm customized film projector projects a loop of a self portrait. The projector is modified so that over the course of the exhibition the image is completely scraped away.
