Recent Projects

• WATCH/PLAY

  Public/Online/Performance Project (2010-present) About the Project Surveillance cameras observe and record all kinds of everyday actions, but their primary purpose is to record (and/or discourage) crimes. What would happen if we used these cameras to examine other aspects of our culture, and opened their feeds up to the public-at-large? Public Performances Various locations throughout Baltimore, [...]

• The Carnival Project – “Midway”

  Multi-channel Video and Digital Photographs (2010) About the Project “Midway” is created from footage and images captured at state and county fairs in Indiana and South Carolina. Multi-channel videos examine the impromptu performances, staged competitions and visceral revelations that attendees experience while riding Carnival rides. Sound for these videos is by Ted Coffey. The show [...]

• STREB – BRAVE

  Projection Design for Touring Performance (2008-2009) Upcoming Shows Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA (October 22, 2009-October 25, 2009) Herberger Theater Phoenix, AZ (November 6, 2009 & November 7, 2009) About STREB – BRAVE is my 3rd collaboration with Elizabeth Streb, and our first to utilize responsive and generative visual content. Using video tracking and [...]

• Dimitri, Los Angeles, 1984 (Concept)

  Public Sculpture concept (from The Unrealized Gesture Series) The proposed sculpture is a trace of an unrealized action, Russian gymnast Dimitri Bilozertchev’s Pommel Horse routine at the Los Angeles Olympics. The personal, social and political collided when the Russian team decided to boycott the Olympics, derailing Dimitri’s dreams of Olympic gold. The full scale (approx [...]

• The Metamorphoses Series

  High-definition video series (2008) The Metamorphoses series (Biggie, Britney, George, Oprah and Michael) was shot at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum earlier this year. It documents transgressive and playful interactions that occur as people stage encounters with wax celebrities. The stillness of the wax museum entices people to perform. These actions are most often frozen again [...]

• Motive

  High-definition Video (2008) “Motive” examines 8 University of Minnesota Cheerleaders as they perform. Their individual performances are composited into a flickering video of the group as a whole. The resultant concatenation reveals subtle shifts in gesture and affect as each individual cheerleader attempts to synchronize her movement with the others. Exhibition History: Group Exhibition: Faculty [...]