Menu

consider

MIT XR Hackathon 2020

Back for more

MIT XR Hackathon 2020

Mentoring for a second year. Cool that I’m being brought back, had a blast last year, looking forward to it.

See More
MIT XR Hackathon 2020

MIT XR Hackathon 2019

Back for more

MIT XR Hackathon 2019

Mentoring this year. Good to be brought back in a different capacity, had a blast participating last year, looking forward to it.

See More
Screen Shot 2020-01-14 at 1.15.38 PM

“In the fading light v.01” on FRM.FM

 

New series offered straight onto a real-time platform. Been a long time coming, and while it requires a proprietary frame/media player, it\’s closer to how I want my work seen, frm.fm

Screen Shot 2019-07-12 at 7.42.41 PM

“Thrown” at BAU through April 30

Installation at Beacon Artist Union in Beacon, NY titled Thrown. Includes a scene from Aground, “ZongLocLondon.10.06.2007” on Apple TV, bench and a cargo net that prevents entering installation.

From statement:
A sailing vessel appears held in suspension, cut off from foreground and background. Current weather and historic data specific to the Atlantic passage further shapes the scene. Not a video game, Thrown is slow cinema or tv: nothing happens in the sense of plot or an open gaming narrative. Instead, the screen frames a middle ground with subtle shifts in color and motion. Sparked by J.M.W. Turner’s The Slave Ship, Thrown is as much about politics as aesthetics, and how they occupy the same space.

Thrown is evidentiary realism: scenes are created and set in motion with a list of rules; the machine views and captures evidence of itself in and through the loops; video results are to be enjoyed first for their formal qualities, then relevance to context, both current and historical. Obvious to the eye, not so much to the mind.

aground v.1.01

Not a video game, Aground is slow cinema or tv: nothing happens in the sense of plot or an open gaming narrative. Instead, the screen frames an experience.

A sailing ship is held in suspension, snow or ash drifts through a landscape cut off from foreground and background. The work explores delusion, between the impression of reality and the physical sense of place; current weather from specific locations draw on associations of mobility and paralysis, connectedness and isolation. The landscapes remain pristine, yet haunted by the same electro-chemical morbidity as human physiology; all rendered live, each sliver of a moment unique.

This app is part of a series, and designed specifically for a social space with large monitors or projection rather than personal devices. It is a live app, not video, running at 60 fps. Live weather data is specific to locations in the Atlantic passage (as noted in titles), affecting the \”climate\” in-scene.

Screen Shot 2016-05-07 at 2.42.34 PM
Select a scene to display
Screen Shot 2016-05-07 at 2.42.34 PM
Screen Shot 2016-05-07 at 2.43.06 PM
Screen Shot 2016-05-07 at 2.42.46 PM
Screen Shot 2016-05-06 at 7.19.49 AM
Screen Shot 2016-05-25 at 2.24.31 PM
aground v.1.01

Richard Serra said,

“I wanted the viewer to become the subject of his own experience.”

 

The snow man

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
-Wallace Stevens