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1800 Frames at Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival & Kean University

The 1800 Frames - Take 4 exhibition, which includes two of my video pieces, is now traveling! It will be shown at Video_Dumbo during the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival on Saturday 9/27/08 at 2:30pm at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

1800 Frames - Take 4 will also be on view at the Fine Arts building at Kean University in Union, NJ from September 30-November 4, 2008. The video will be running on a continuous loop on a large monitor in the entryway of the building.

The entire show is online here, along with photos of the installation at the original venue, City Without Walls in Newark, NJ.

Upcoming Show: Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival 9/26-28/08

My piece, Looking (baboon) will be included in the 2008 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival, which will be September 26-28, 2008 in Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York.

In this video projection, a baboon peers out of a window, surveying the world around him. His expressive features encourage passers-by to consider what the animal is responding to and why, and to compare these responses to their own visceral experiences of being alive. Preview the video here.

Location:
Ground floor window on Pearl St. between Plymouth St. and John St. (side window of Melville House publishers)

Projection will be on view from 6-9 pm Friday, Sept 26. - Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008.

New Work: Zoo Pictures

New Work: Signs of Life

These pieces are part of a series of short videos that isolate small movements and gestures in animals that serve as markers for the state of being "alive." By drawing attention to the subject animal's own consciousness, these pieces encourage us to think about what the animal is responding to and why, and to compare these responses to own visceral experience of being alive.

Looking (baboon)
Not actually an orangutan.



Drinking



Untitled (composite 1)

Upcoming Show: 1800 Frames - Take 4

I have two pieces in 1800 Frames - Take 4, a show of one minute videos at City Without Walls in Newark, NJ from April 12-May 29, 2008.

The opening reception will be Saturday, April 12 from 6-8 pm. WARNING: performance art will be happening at 7 pm.

For more info, see City Without Walls' site.

Untitled (lizard eye) - INSTALLATION DOCUMENTATION

Untitled (lizard eye) was a video installation in an elevator consisting of a portable DVD player inside a metal box attached to the inside of the elevator just above the buttons. The DVD player showed a short video of a lizard's eye slowly opening and closing, its pupil dilating and contracting as it appeared to watch the elevator's passengers. This piece was installed at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn, NY during the 2007 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival.

The disembodied eye references not only surveillance in a traditional sense, but also a kind of "scientific gaze" and the notion of watching as a means to create factual knowledge about the world around us.

DRIFT 2008 Show

DRIFT
November 8-10, 2007
Rush Arts Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 311, New York, NY
Video and performance exhibition.

Thursday, November 8: Video projections on view 11 am - 6 pm

Friday, November 9: Video projections on view 11 am - 6 pm
Reception and live performances from 6 pm - 8 pm

Saturday, November 10: Video projections on view 1 pm - 6 pm
(also my birthday - woo hoo!)

My video Jellyfish Tracing (two moon) will be included in this show.

Upcoming Shows!

Upcoming Shows

DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival
September 28-30, 2007
Installation in the elevator at 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY. For more information, see http://dumboartscenter.org/festival.html.

video_dumbo
September 29, 2007, 5:30 pm, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY
Video screening. Opening reception will be September 28, 2007 at 8:30 pm, also at 81 Front Street. For more information, see http://www.m-o-s-t-r-a.com/video_dumbo/video_dumbo2007.html

DRIFT 2008
November 9-10, 2007, Rush Arts Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 311, New York, NY
Video and performance exhibition.

Tracing (red and black fish holding still)

single channel video
2007

Tracing (red and black fish holding still) is part of a project in which I am mapping the undulating motions of jellyfish and other sea creatures using a video effect called motion tracking. Motion tracking allows you to create a motion “path” based on the location of a chosen point within your video image as it moves over the duration of the clip. By applying a paint effect to the resulting path, I generate a kind of tracing.

Work in limbo

Shell insides

2003
dimensions variable
cast latex rubber

This series of sculptures was made by creating casts from the inside of shells. The flexible rubber casts can be handled, twisted, and stretched.

Shell insides - detail 1

detail
2003
approx. 4” x 1” x 1”
cast latex rubber

Shell insides - detail 2

detail
2003
approx. 2” x 2” x 2”
cast latex rubber

Observations - installation diagram

installation diagram
2004
dimensions variable
ant farm, surveillance camera, live video projection, corrugated plastic, wood, etc.

Observations consisted of a transparent maze-like structure that controlled how viewers moved through the installation. After entering through a marked opening, viewers found a shelf containing an ant farm at the end of the first corridor. A small camera mounted behind the ant farm transmitted a live video to a projector in the next room. Because of the physical separation between the ant farm and the live video projection, viewers could not watch themselves watching the ant farm, but could watch others that entered after they did (second image).

Observations - detail, hallway

detail, hallway
2004
dimensions variable (walls are 8' high)
corrugated plastic, wood, etc.

Observations - detail, ant farm and surveillance camera

detail, ant farm and surveillance camera
2004
dimensions variable
ant farm, surveillance camera, thermometer, water spray bottle, etc.

Observations - detail, video projections

details, video projection
2004
approximately 3’ x 5’
live video projection

Latent Prints/Reading Room

installation detail, day 5 [1]
2003
dimensions variable
fingerprint powder, clear acrylic sealer, books, magnifying glasses, wooden table, etc.

This installation included a table, chairs, books on fingerprints, magnifying glass, and food—all colored white—creating a comfortable space for students to relax. At the end of each of the five days the installation was open, I dusted the space for fingerprints, then fixed the resulting prints with clear sealer so that fingerprints accumulated over time.

Latent Prints/Reading Room [detail 2]

installation detail, day 5 [2]
2003
dimensions variable
fingerprint powder, clear acrylic sealer, books, magnifying glasses, wooden table, etc.