Was Here: Beacon

The video set I curated, titled "Was Here" premiered last summer in Philadelphia. It will show again in June at Tas Kafe in Beacon NY thanks to Tiffany Joy Butler!

Lobsters and Vegan Pizza

Students, Maura and I at the Monkey Thunder opening. I busted out (in about 1 1/2 hours) the Lobstah applique for my rockin colleague Maura Jasper to don. She wanted a lobster dress that was a nod to Duchamp's and I jumped at the opportunity to alter a dress. She looked stunning.

This gluten free pizza blew my mind in Anaheim California. I made a quick trip in early May to visit my brother and parents and help to move him into a new apartment. Yes that is a Processing t-shirt.

Monkey Thunder

Last night I showed a new work made in Processing, "Haggenbeck-Wallace" at the "Monkey Thunder" show in Muncie, Indiana. The work uses face capture to detect a viewer and project their image in the top 1/5 of the screen. As a face is detected, animations begin to play the piece becomes more chaotic, carts and camels drive by, a clown floats in the corner, culminating in a surprise "Escape" moment. I've been having a lot of fun this "summer" so far working in Processing and Open Frameworks and am looking forward to translating some of my old works into new programming formats and making some new interactive pieces.

Rapture:Rupture Artists and Models Buffalo

On May 20th, I drove a vanload of student artists (Kelsey Ebbert, Derrick Niehaus, Katie Priddy, Holly Lay, Andy Boren, Kyle Broyles) to Buffalo to perform Metabellum II at Artists and Models: Rapture:Rupture, an annual event for Hallwalls Gallery. The performance, again in collaboration with choreographers Audra Sokol, Jenny Showalkter, and dancers Julie Matlik, Cristina Gustaitis, and Marc-Antoine Denechaud, and musician Adam Crawley was a great success. Of course Mark Hursty's air and light sculptures filled the space!
Great event. Much improvisation was had by all. I was glad to see work by friends Jason and Debora Bernagozzi, Jan Nagle, Eric Souther, and Elisabeth Pellathy. We also had the chance to pop over the border to Niagara Falls, Canada where I saw the sights I haven't visited since I was 8 years old--and the Maid of the Mist!