Performances & Installations
DIPTYCH
“Diptych” is a live duet between two artists who attach themselves to monolithic paper microphones in order to create soundscapes conducted by body movements.
4ft x 12ft | Sound performance | 2011, 2010
Handmade Music Show, CultureFix, New York
9th Annual New Interfaces for Musical Expressions (NIME) Performance, Glasslands, New York
Made with Michelle Temple
I/O
Created for the 120ft-long screen in the lobby of Frank Gehry’s building for the IAC, “I/O” offers a visceral and abstract journey into binary modalities such as the human breath, negative/positive space perception, and the digital, computer-operated medium of the screen itself.
120ft x 12ft | Video performance | 2010
Big Screens Show, IAC, New York
Made with Neil Hickey
GRANDMA HAD A HAND OF A WHIP
“Grandma Had the Hand of a Whip” grew from a series of conversations between the two artists about their matriarchal inheritance and delves into what goes on behind closed doors, how lessons were transmitted, and how emotions were sublimated through daily, repetitive chores like washing dishes, scrubbing the floor, knitting. This video sculpture invites people to play a movie projection by tugging on a piece of yarn; this yarn actually unravels a hand-knitted blanket within the sculpture until all the “guts” are lying about below.
3ft x 1ft x 5ft | Video sculpture | 2010
ITP Spring Show, New York
Made with Michelle Temple
DIELOG
“Dielog: Mark My Words” is an interactive electronic poetry piece that visualizes the semantic relationship between words, using the word ‘lie’ as the main seed. Visitors can shoot paint-dipped nerf darts from a gun at any word in the network (scraped live from Wikipedia hyperlinks), and if they are on target, the word gets severed from the network, until eventually the whole semantic network dissolves, leaving behind only the ink marks of the word’s destruction.
3ft x 5ft | Video installation | 2010
Digital Poetry Performance, Bowery Poetry Club, New York
ITP Spring Show, New York
Made with Sonia Yuditskaya
MYCLOUD
“MyCloud” invites participants to lay down on a grassy lawn and play with clouds that are projected above them. Using a wireless cloud-shaped pillow as a controller, participants can squeeze and hug their pillow in different ways, which allows them to slowly shape and move the clouds above.
12ft x 12ft x 12ft | Immersive Installation | 2010
ITP Spring Show, New York
re-new festival, Copenhagen
Made with Amy Chien, Matt Ganucheau
TWEETGRASS
TweetGrass combines Twitter and wheat grass in a playful, interactive installation designed to encourage sustainable living habits. Community members can tweet their “green” contributions to a physical screen that will display each tweet as a cloud. Once a critical mass of clouds have gathered, it starts raining on-screen, which triggers a real watering system to rain on a box of wheat grass located underneath the screen. TweetGrass thus features two related types of information: 1) the tweets show specific ways in which people contribute to their sustainable living and working environments, and 2) the health of the tweetgrass, which can be clipped for juice, indicates whether more contribution is needed. As community contributions grow, so does the tweetgrass. Or, if people stop contributing, then the tweetgrass dies into a memorial of what could have been.
2ft x 3.5ft x 6ft | Interactive Sustainability | 2009
ITP Winter Show, New York
Made with Dave Miller, Michael Zick Doherty, Chris Alden