The Phantasmagoria of Offense: male version

Phantasmagoria

The Phantasmagoria of Offense is an animated film lyric on the dangers of image suppression and censorship, centered around cultural anxieties and the male body.

Urban Research Toolkit[collaboration]

URT

Urban Research Toolkit is collaborative mapping framework for urban research, providing a contextual capacities within web and mobile applications. Currently offline.

  • Title Urban Research Toolkit
  • Date 2010 - 2014
  • Collaborator Jane Pirone
  • Funder New School Provost's Office: Innovations in Education Fund

Myne [collaboration]

Datamining

Myne is an open source platform that visually maps the people and project within Parsons, including course content, syllabi, faculty expertise, interests & bios.

  • Title Myne
  • Date 2008 - 2012
  • Collaborator Jane Pirone
  • Funder Parsons Deans Office

Between

Between

Departing from multiple horizon points across several contients, this series contemplates the cyclical renewal of desire, abstraction and the long journey in between.

  • Title Between
  • Medium moving image series
  • Date 2011
  • Exhibited Carlos Gallery, University of the South, TN

Yesterdays

Yesterdays

A landscape of remains from yesterdays, within a one week buildup on a five block radius within New York City.

  • Title Yesterdays
  • Medium video projection
  • Date 2010
  • Exhibited Carlos Gallery, University of the South, TN

Moving

Moving

Split between four vertical screens, Moving follows pedestrians from across the globe as they permit the mechanical environment to move them.

  • Title Moving
  • Medium video installation
  • Date 2008
  • Exhibited Carlos Gallery, University of the South, TN

Series

series

Digital prints of panoramic landscapes that amplify the material conditions of existing built environments, revealing conflicting cultural ideologies.

  • Title Series
  • Medium video installation
  • Date 2007
  • Exhibited Gallery 27+ (NY)

Seams

seams

Seams is an interactive video installation, using ultrasonic sensors to detect the direction and range of the viewers movement to control the moving image.

  • Title Seams
  • Medium interactive installation
  • Date 2006
  • Exhibited Anderson Ranch Art Center (CO)

Four Walls

four walls

A silent tour of failed businesses, this moving image loop pulls the viewer away successively back and downward.

  • Title Four Walls
  • Medium video loop
  • Date 2006
  • Exhibited Int'l Media Forum (Cairo, Egypt); Kurtz Filme (Basel Switzerland); Forja Arte Contemp. (Valencia, Spain)

Surround

surround

Installed as a site-specific project within Lower Manhattan, Surround layers a moving image of a window reflection, suggesting a forgotten sense of urban space to passing pedestrians.

  • Title Surround
  • Medium site-specific video installation
  • Date 2006
  • Exhibited Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (NY)

Surfaces

surfaces

Surfaces is a collection of modern typologies that span several international cities.

  • Title Surfaces
  • Medium digital prints
  • Date 2006
  • Exhibited Photo Miami (FL); Fringe Exhibitions (CA)

Lightness

lightness

Modernism is the matrix through which this city is described; a moving image loop that proposes a new urban space through the vertical density that spans several continents.

  • Title Lightness
  • Medium video loop
  • Date 2005
  • Exhibited Lumen Eclipse (MA); Exchange Square (Manchester, UK); Columbia College (IL)

Level

level

Composited as a four channel moving image loop, Level negotiates common spaces between several domestic cities – below ground, street level, elevated and sky space.

  • Title Level
  • Medium video installation
  • Date 2005
  • Exhibited Fringe Exhibitions (CA); Davis Museum and Cultural Center (MA); London Study Centre (London, UK)

Traversing the City

series

An installation presenting street level documentation and census data, to illuminate the challenges and possibilities found in the city of Wilmington today.

  • Title Traversing the City
  • Date2005
  • CollaboratorsStephen Metts, Boys & Girls Club
  • FunderDelaware Center for Contemporary Art

Two Planes

two planes

Two Planes is a post-9/11 moving image meditation on the juncture between architectural and cognitive space.

  • Title Two Planes
  • Medium video installation
  • Date 2004
  • Exhibited Fringe Exhibitions (CA); Jewett Art Center Gallery (MA)

Tropical America[collaboration]

tropical america

Tropical America an online game that fuses the new world of video games to a compelling past through a journey to unravel the mysteries of the Americas.

  • Title Tropical America
  • Date 2002, a project of OnRamp Arts
  • CollaboratorsJuan Devis & Belmont High School students
  • FunderU.S. Department of Education

Inflat-o-scape

inflat-o-scape

Inflat-o-scape is an experimental web project that looks at the web through the metaphor of inflatable architecture.

  • Title Inflat-o-scape
  • Medium interactive website
  • Date 2001
  • Exhibited Design Exchange(Toronto, Canada); MASP Art Gallery (Sao Paulo, Brazil); Level 2 Gallery (NSW, Austrailia); Armory Center for the Arts (CA)

Inter: ReActive [collaboration]

intereactive

Five cross-cultural, interactive narratives explore a layered experience of urban space along themes of magical realism, film noir, gaming, memory and mystery.

  • Title Inter:ReActive
  • Date2001, a project of OnRamp Arts,
  • CollaboratorsJuan Devis & Belmont High School Students
  • FunderU.S. Department of Education

Turning from the Millennium [collaboration]

turning from the millennium

An interactive exploration of South Central LA and Echo Park, two historic neighborhoods which have experienced radical demographic shifts, social upheaval, big city politics.

  • Title Turning from the Millennium
  • Date 2000, a project of OnRamp Arts
  • CollaboratorsStephen Metts & local High School students
  • FunderLos Angeles Culural Affairs

Rooves

rooves

Rooves is a photographic series which presents the mundane , changing and unnoticed communications infrastructures flattened as an abstracted landscape through a mechanically split image plane.

  • Title Rooves
  • Medium digital prints
  • Date 1998
  • Exhibited Post Gallery (CA)

Signs

signs

Signs is photographic series which examines the physical and cultural landscape of Los Angeles - namely, how Los Angeles is described to itself.

  • Title Signs
  • Medium digital prints
  • Date 1998
  • Exhibited Los Angeles Center for Contemporary Exhibitions (CA)

Con Cave

con cave

A site-specific video installation within the former Lincon Heights City Jail, Con Cave is an ironic commentary on the existing architecture of the barred window into the common bathrooms.

  • Title Con Cave
  • Medium video installation
  • Date 1998
  • Exhibited Lincoln Heights City Jail (CA)

Electronic Corpse [collaboration]

turning from the millennium

A four-channel video sculpture inspired by the practice of the Exquisite Corpse, created with former UCSB students.

  • Title Electronic Corpse
  • Date 1998
  • CollaboratorsJosh Churchill, Jessica D'Elena and Robert Lee
  • FunderUC Santa Barbara Art

Projection

projection

Projection is a re-constructed nature video with a constant audio track and fleeting images of mundane urban landscapes, corporate icons and underwater footage.

  • Title Projection
  • Medium video installation
  • Date 1996
  • ExhibitedGallery 2 (IL); UCI Art Gallery (CA)

Lap

lap

Lap questions the role of information technology, both in relation to the body, and as a means of communication.

  • Title Lap
  • Medium video installation
  • Date 1996
  • ExhibitedCirculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain); Artemesia Gallery (IL) UCI Art Gallery (CA)