http://videoactiveavocado.com/videos daily 0.75 2020-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588463567493-OPMSU1I1A1Z18YP2M1M2/image-asset.jpeg videos - Icicles grow diagonally in Chicago Experimentation with sound by Dancing' Baby! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588463567493-OPMSU1I1A1Z18YP2M1M2/image-asset.jpeg videos - Icicles grow diagonally in Chicago Experimentation with sound by Dancing' Baby! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589323467130-F8OXFV0ZVKIYOVIHQ4W9/image-asset.jpeg videos - Discorporate Hierarchies#3 In this video essay I am concerned with how my microbiome helps me process the onslaught of popular culture, transforming it into simple organic information packets that can be reassembled in more meaningful ways... It is one continuous take of experimentation, as I tested a new video feedback diorama I had just finished building. No editing or aftereffects are used, except for the titling. There is one layer of video synthesis and three layers of camera-to-screen feedback that interact with each other in semi-random, generative ways. Figurines placed in the feedback loops become the actors in an abstract narrative, spinning in their inverted hierarchy... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589322414970-NFKRWT6VXXR29CR7BCJE/image-asset.jpeg videos - Between Grief and Ecstasy This video essay took shape during a time when I was talking with friends about the state of mind necessary for one be able to hold grief and ecstasy simultaneously, while taking out the trash, doing the dishes, preparing for the anthropocene... It's a life long project of mine, keeping a foot in either realm as consistently as possible... This piece contains little editing and no aftereffects because I mean it to be as representative of my live performance as possible. The piece is a direct capture of my improvisation with the video systems I have built. The colorful striped motif is generated by an LZX Industries video synthesis system, while the fine textured pattern behind is generated by a lumia setup. Cameras are pointing at a piece of glass art made by the artist Allison Holt, Oilly Oowen Studios. It is a cube filled with perfectly ordered rows of tiny air bubbles, it's sides polished to transparency. It sits on a rotating turntable, in a video feedback diorama I made. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589321029553-AZMM22A41CPJUAQKU314/image-asset.jpeg videos - I Dream of Electric Fungus This experimental short was taken by direct capture from a studio session that took place in January 2019. It is all one clip, mostly analog, and contains no editing or after effects, except for the titling. As I created this I very much enjoyed it's slow, meditative pace, and its moving Rorschach effect, (why I love studio time). The texture that flows down screen is derived from a video loop I shot of a log covered with orange fungus. The clip was sent through a video synthesis system that electrified it, hence the title. The video utilizes a video synthesis system that I have tuned to be interactive with sound. The sound is also synthesized, using two random pattern generators to vary frequency and rhythm. So I was improvising in both the audio and visual elements simultaneously. Because of the random interactions between sound and video, many unpredictable images unfolded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550199620070-4L9GSW4CBFODM8PMY91D/image-asset.jpeg videos - Ms. Manta Goes Deep Cycle to Hasten the Death of Capitalism This video was produced during my residency at Signal Culture in Oswego N.Y. Signal Culture has an amazing video studio containing many classic video art tools. This video features the Paik-Abe Wobbulator! Such fun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510686608871-TJ8IX385WDGA1111Z0KZ/image-asset.jpeg videos - Ten Thousand Steps This video was filmed in a video feedback environment I built. Its core element is a video loop of a spiritual site in Southern India called 1000 steps. Over and under this I have keyed in video synthesis and feedback. It is mostly one continuous clip, with little editing and no after-effects applied. I mean it to be as performative as possible, because working live, in an expanded cinema format is my goal. The sound is a collage of field recordings that came from several sights in India, and includes sounds of my friends the cicadas, and groups of kids demonstrating to save the local forests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510687122268-ATB2F69AIWP2XR36IZJU/image-asset.jpeg videos - solo trumpet To quote Brian Pedersen, "so, an old friend gave me a trumpet some years back, I tried but couldn't get any satisfying sounds out of it. So.....I plunked an alto sax mouthpiece on it, ran it through 8 guitar pedals and into a little SUNN O)) practice amp turned way up. Doesn't really sound like a trumpet at all anymore. One take, no dubs, my neighbors love me. Peace. The video is also one continuous take with no aftereffects. Three layers of feedback seeded by a video loop of the Cali. coastline with some video synthesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550186058083-6Q610RT3M68YRYVBPVV4/image-asset.jpeg videos - I Dream In Color, When I'm Awake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510686728359-MXAPVMQ425A1GEWAKA76/image-asset.jpeg videos - Your Cage Is Ready This video short is a Neo-Brutalist essay on contemporary life in the USA. I reserve my creators prerogative to say as little as I like about this piece, save that it reflects the most current events in the USA in a personal and emotional way. As to the technical process, it was filmed in a video feedback environment I built. Its core element is a sculpture of a cage that I made, which measures about 9 inches square. Over this I have keyed in synthesized video clips of graffiti and a trip across the Bay Bridge. It is mostly one continuous clip, with little editing and no after-effects applied. I mean it to be as performative as possible, because working live, in an expanded cinema format is my goal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510686900385-539OQVXQXC5WXE73F9WQ/image-asset.jpeg videos - Selfless This video is an edit of video clips from an installation I did at The Exploratoriun, San Francisco, for their yearly Extended Cinema event. The installation was titled Selfless Analog Selfie Station. I invited museum workers and guests to sit for a portrait. I recorded short clips of them then modified the clip with my video art system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476903536047-1BD4561AJ6TYMLERE1HT/image-asset.jpeg videos - Girl Had Me Exploring the pattern generating possibilities of feedback with this one. The left side is 100% camera rotator feedback, with the camera pointed partially at the right side. The right side is LZX generated pattern and euro rack mounted camera feedback. Both channels are mirrored in the V4 mixers. The sound is a FCPX composition of horses and loons.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476903705140-QFD6DC95P34NRY7RE6AG/image-asset.jpeg videos - found you floating This video is an excerpt of a studio session I did using clips and techniques from our show at Grey Area Art and Technology, San Francisco, in May 2016. It is one uninterrupted clip captured with a Canon DSLR, (sorry about the grid artifact! But I don't mine it too much). The DSLR was capturing a Samsung digital signage screen that was displaying the two channels coming from my video feedback and synth system. The Samsung screen can show the two channels at once using it's Picture By Picture capability. Sound is from a two armed turntable I built that is playing a record twice, and in reverse, at a slow RMP. The turntable is variable speed from 0 to 100 RPM and is reversible... The two tonearms give it a very variable echo effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1432847763330-0BKOEHXC9DGWQXGUNO5S/image-asset.jpeg videos - PsychoNation2.0 This video is a reprise of part of the performance I gave at The Center For New Music in San Francisco, May 3rd, 2015. It is one continuous take with no post effects and minimal editing. It is shot using two video loops in the new video feedback environment I built for the show. A Tachyons+ video synthesizer warps the middle screen while a rotating cc camera feeds back through the two outer screens. Our Sisyphean journey towards racial equality was in my mind as I put it together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476904561915-CX77900IMR3MY70D3XL4/image-asset.jpeg videos - For Michael B. This experimental video short is dedicated to my friend Michael B. and is resonant with our conversations about racism in America. The video was shot in my latest Video Feedback Environment, (VFE), which I built in May, 2015. The VFE animates sculpture through the use of robotics, and creates spontaneous visual occurrences in the form of fractals, patterns, strobing, and color generation. No after effects were used in this video. It is all live generation and synthesis. The face on the rotating head was cast live from my friend, Mike B.’s face, with classical techniques of mask-making, using plaster, latex and moulage. The final form is a fiberglass re-enforced epoxy material that has powdered pigments added for coloration. It is hung on an armature of aluminum robotics parts, toys, and electronics. The third eye was carved into the mask after the final resin form was cast. The actual third eye behind the face consists of a high resolution, color, closed circuit camera that delivers a continuous signal to the video screens behind it, creating one of three video feedback loops in the VFE. The other two feedback loops are derived from two cameras mounted in front of the VFE. They can rotate along their lens axis, which add layers of pattern and movement. In between the signal path from the cameras to the screens is a video synthesis array that can enhance and distort the signals in many ways. The VFE is designed to perform live, in an expanded cinema capacity.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1427647465138-P02K2DJ5H0W0P9YEF7AX/image-asset.jpeg videos - 3rd Eye Feedback This video is a progress report for the new video feedback environment I am building. It tests two of six possible video signal inputs. It also tests all the motion control robotics and mechanical systems. I designed this latest system to be portable enough to do live performances with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1427647544418-QACD1I58CLM08NOQB0YG/image-asset.jpeg videos - Decend and Abandon, (anthropocene) This video is one unedited clip of a demo shoot I did using 2 video mixers, feedback, a Tachyons+ video synthesizer, 2 cameras, and 2 video loops played on media players. The sound was added in FCP and is a collage of field recordings and found sounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1409590581068-0PLSHADMNC1L0PT2SH3N/image-asset.jpeg videos - Their White Asses This vid was shot in a video feedback environment I built. I constructed a miniature stage that has 7 rotating platforms in its floor which animate the props and sculptures I place on them. Three LCD screens form the backdrop behind the stage. They are looped to two robotic cameras that spin along their lens axis. The cameras capture the HD images which then go to FCPX where some layering takes place. This video is part of my "Our Favorite Shows" series which began as a response to 'normal' TV content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1399326107950-P2KPLJ3TJF9Q16PN2VX3/image-asset.jpeg videos - my happy place This video will be built into my sculpture entitled My Happy Place. Though it was designed for the sculpture, this video is free to stand on its own three feet. It was shot using a video feedback environment and kinetic sculpture I've been tinkering with. The kinetic sculpture animates the Talking Head and other props, tulips and veggies in this case. The feedback environment recycles and refracts video signals from three sources; a Canon XH-A1 HD camera, a closed circuit camera rotator devise that I built, and a media player, combining them in various ways... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394564199537-8JJVHUWMZ4S31X5IWXS7/image-asset.jpeg videos - Talkin' Head This piece of video art is filmed in a video feedback environment I made using three LED screens and a Canon XHA1 camera. All other materials are from thrift stores and yard sales. No animals were harmed in its creation...I cast the talking head of bees wax and spare change from a plaster sculpture I made. Political/ media satire plays heavy in the concept. But where else can a prom queen who's hair is falling out, (from chemo?), and a dude with an alligator head feel free to be themselves? A couple audio clips by the performance group, National Disgrace make the sound track. National Disgrace is; Fred Rinne, Andy DeGiovanni and myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394564311124-UNHMWENN2X95Z6RPO175/image-asset.jpeg videos - A Better Place This video was shot in a video feedback environment I built that uses 2 LED monitors to sample the images being shot, (in real time...). The mechanism that animates the movement is one of the kinetic sculptures I built for the "Our Favorite Shows" series. It is a turntable powered by a record player which also provides the sound track. Thanks to the Center For Creative Reuse in Oakland for carrying a huge selection of vinyl: Motown's Disco Hits, The Tiajuana Brass and something else who's label was eaten off by mold and fungus....are featured. This video is part of the sculpture A Better World, where it runs as a continuous loop, or this video can stand alone as its own video art piece. 2012; 3:36 loop. http://videoactiveavocado.com/random-portraits daily 0.75 2014-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562295778-0FUYYPQ1XIUKF9GYFTQ4/IMG_0848.jpg random portraits - I Voted 2013, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor The Random Portraits are drawings developed from anonymous sketches done in cafes around the SF bay area. Besides the subject matter being random,( whomever happens to be sitting nearby), the relationships between watercolor background and ink line drawing are also random. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562295778-0FUYYPQ1XIUKF9GYFTQ4/IMG_0848.jpg random portraits - I Voted 2013, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor The Random Portraits are drawings developed from anonymous sketches done in cafes around the SF bay area. Besides the subject matter being random,( whomever happens to be sitting nearby), the relationships between watercolor background and ink line drawing are also random. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562401601-HQSWD73HOSM7H869R2F3/IMG_0847.jpg random portraits - napper 2013, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562454304-KN845IPDO0PF2V2NF4J6/IMG_0853.jpg random portraits - What I Must Do 2014, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562430600-DZG5R5IDM9T35T9IIKIC/IMG_0851.jpg random portraits - The Answer 2013, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562482125-AX9N9OJ5OTUSMJAK3B5M/IMG_0854.jpg random portraits - Well Yes But 2014, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562511424-PG06VTJYVQCT1CYZZTTU/IMG_0856.jpg random portraits - Push Yourself 2014, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562530494-R1NKFN8Z06QJ80NU0SSM/IMG_0858.jpg random portraits - Someday 2013, 6" x 10", (size without frame), ink on watercolor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562561367-MLGBM3ZJV14UTFDQM5T7/IMG_0861.jpg random portraits - Ulysses 2013, 6" x 10", (size without frame), ink on watercolor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394562585096-G91K423VJ0YJW8A1F6N7/IMG_0862.jpg random portraits - Sorry to Hear 2014, 11" x 14", (size without frame), ink on watercolor http://videoactiveavocado.com/sculpture daily 0.75 2015-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1424383647562-87JMG95G6BQLXZVV8Z6L/IMG_0740.jpg sculpture - Blue Movie House Blue Movie House is a wall hanging sculpture that has video built into it. The video screen inside the house plays my video piece, DiskoParty 2 in a continuous loop. The viewer must peek through the windows to see the video inside. I used stucco, marble, copper, wood, brass, and the electronics, (screen, media player, amplifier, speaker), to make this piece. The voyeuristic, tweenage, suburban experience of peering through neighbor's windows at dinner time provided some inspiration. You can see the video loop DiskoParty 2 in the video gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394564976247-7KFLNGKLLUPOLB299JWE/IMG_0740.jpg sculpture - Neil's House Neil's House is a wall hanging sculpture that has video built into it. The video screen inside the house plays my video piece, House Party 2 in a continuous loop. The viewer must peek through the windows to see the video inside. I used stucco, marble, copper, wood, brass, and the electronics, (screen, media player, amplifier, speaker), to make this piece. The voyeuristic, tweenage, suburban experience of peering through neighbor's windows at dinner time provided some inspiration. You can see the video loop House Party 2 in the video gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394565027140-STLJHE0J81LJCHBRPSI2/image-asset.jpeg sculpture - Neil's House (Video Documentation of sculpture) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394565204837-9CKMBFW7TWBIVWPRMZET/image-asset.jpeg sculpture - A Sunny Place for Breakfast, (Video Documentation of sculpture), with cafe art. This is video documentation of a wall hanging sculpture. The sculpture has a video screen, media player, amplifier, speaker, and LED built into it. The video that is playing through the backpack screen is a 2.5 min loop of myself out in the world as a free white man. The themes are freedom, incarceration, white privilege, the new jim crow and maintaining mindfulness....It is a mixed media piece using stucco, concrete, steel, wood, paper, paint, and the electronics. The Cafe Art miniature paintings should run straight out in a row to get as much physical distance as possible from the prison, but I didn't have enough room and had to stack them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394565166382-2IRWZ1EBZ3IJHH5MG0MI/A+Sunny+Place+for+Breakfast.jpg sculpture - A Sunny Place for Breakfast Mixed media with built in video loop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394673247340-F40YWZMMSVQHXFUOWBWT/image-asset.jpeg sculpture - A Better World, (Video Documentation of sculpture) This video is documentation of a new wall hanging sculpture. The piece has a video screen, media player, cc video camera and an arduino microprocessor built into it. The media player loops my video A Better Place 2 while the microprocessor interrupts the loop with video samples from the cc camera mounted inside the lower prison section. The sculpture is made of mixed media including stucco, steel, brass, sheet metal, granite. cloth, etc. The fragment of floor construction in the upper museum section is a model of the black and grey granite floor in SFMOMA. Utopia versus dystopia, institutionalized racism, and the racially lopsided demographics of the art scene are concepts that fester in this piece. The video loop A Better Place 2 is viewable on it's own, in the video gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394655991765-PUFYS75GTUDIEAWC1BB2/IMG_0754.jpg sculpture - A Better World Front view of mixed media sculpture, showing video screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394655857857-2EPGUNO9168HZH89Y4GS/IMG_0757.jpg sculpture - A Better World Mixed media, wall hanging sculpture, with built in video loop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394655927466-051TZ533D53VVKP8YY5Z/IMG_0761.jpg sculpture - A Better World Detail of mixed media sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394727022853-AZHYBMQ2SIH34OQQ0K4I/image-asset.jpeg sculpture - ipod theater (video documentation of sculpture) 
iPod Theater is a reflection upon the multiple states of interactive relationships - monological and dialogical. Two screens sit next to one another, embedded into the frames of two chairs in the setting of a beautifully hand-crafted, mini theater setting. The screens are in dialogue that is an assembly of random events filmed by the artist over the course of several months. The emphasis is on the moments that are devoid of media intervention. There is a neutral third screen present in this work, featuring a live feed coming from an isolated location, which can be regarded as an interference, background noise, or a crucial component to the video dialogue.
   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1395010277055-K0E2C0HY5C1C4G0KRECU/108_0071.jpg sculpture - ipod theater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394726346359-H51UU9C3MIYBHLAT6QZ6/100_0142.jpg sculpture - ipod Theater mixed media sculpture with 3 video screens and one CC camera built in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394726366707-KCK7O081H1FNC0SUT3X7/100_0116.jpg sculpture - Ipod Theater, detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394727429305-1UGBKMA70TQK3O75RRME/image-asset.jpeg sculpture - Semipermiable Brain How do we filter and absorb the onslaught of information delivered to us via the media? How do we balance ourselves with so much of our reality given to us in an abstract form? Pedal away into oblivion on this interactive installation made of recycled and reused materials, reflecting the regurgitated content in the media that we have seen before, but in a slightly different form; the same news, toothpaste, and pop stars cycle back through our lives looking a little different each time, trying to grab our attention, time and money. Utilizing four video sources that show alternately through two TVs, two viewers must pedal stationary bikes in order to change the video sources and spin the TVs. Why not burn some calories while having an aesthetic experience?
   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394726476073-ZUPD74ZIKCMDUUEU8R60/Blender+Head+w%3Ao+flash.jpg sculpture - Semipermiable Brain mixed media sculpture with 2 video screens, 2 video loops, 2 CC cameras. Viewers pedal stationary bikes which spin the video screens... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394726459980-RCDJREI4KZTWUGILJP85/Blender-head.jpg sculpture - Semipermiable Brain mixed media sculpture with two video screens built in. The viewer can pedal two stationary bikes which spin the video screens... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394727269832-RPJUMXQXQQVRY2CB0EJO/image-asset.jpeg sculpture - SemiP-Brain @ Artists & Models '10, Buffalo, N.Y. This is the first incarnation of the sculpture Semipermiable Brain shown at Artists and Models, a performance art event hosted by HallWalls in Buffalo, N.Y. This original version had one video signal for each TV, where as the second version shown at The Squeaky Wheel in '11 has two video channels per TV. http://videoactiveavocado.com/proposals daily 0.75 2020-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1427648074710-H85KO28QJRBHEA7FJCM5/3rd+Eye+Feedback.jpg performances, installations, and proposals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588461167508-5NBNO025YW5M5DPL42CA/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - AAFF2020 live stream, American Progress I submitted the title, A Concise History of American Progress to the Ann Arbor Film Festival months before having developed all the elements involved here. In the mean time, Woody Vasulka passed away. So part of the inspiration for this piece comes from his work, The Art of Memory, which my partner and I were able to watch at the Video Data Bank here in Chicago. We were struck by the similarities it has with Walter Benjamin's 1940 essay, On the Concept of History: "There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which he is staring at. His eyes are opened wide, his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched. The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair [verweilen: a reference to Goethe’s Faust], to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress, is this storm." Benjamin's vision of progress as one huge catastrophic evert seems so prescient now, with the pandemic raging and computer models predicting a horrifying, climate changed future.... Our idea of progress must change. The books I've been reading have had an influence as well. They have illuminated the lineage of colonial slavery up to our present version of neoliberal capitalism, showing how it can never be anything but a system of institutional racism...my reading list: How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century by Erik Olin Wright Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Dark Ecology by Timothy Morton A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588461203332-1R2JBRPXEOA5TAXUQI67/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Performing Media Festival 20, Jacob's Escalator This is a direct capture of my audio/video performance at the Performing Media Festival 2020 at Indiana University, South Bend in February. Huge thanks to Eric Souther and Ryan Olivier for putting a great festival together! The title Jacob's Escalator is an obvious riff on the biblical tale, Jacob's Ladder. This video essay attempts to reveal a more modern and therefore easier path between the physical and spiritual. But though the path is mechanized, it's not without it's own difficulties...a stray flip-flop can jamb it...and who wants to step onto an escalator that has no end in sight? But perhaps these modern means of conveyance can take us to a place that wasn't originally intended... Extensive field recordings of the Chicago transit system form the core sounds and imagery of this piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588462582534-WY2LNR5U5H1LBGA32RCX/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Denial at Hyperborian Documentation of a collaborative performance that took place at Elastic Arts in Chicago, 2020.: Ethan Turpin- wildfire video from his project The Burn Cycle. Allison Leigh Holt- video sculpture, live camerawork Dorien Gunnels/Need For Storms- sound Mika McKinnon- narration Kit Young- video synthesis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589383737082-UE6BOQGQQ1C7Z8CKRBAD/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Interdiscipline This is full documentation of the performance we did at the East Bay Media Center, Berkeley, CA. March, 2019. Sung Kim played invented instruments, Motoko Honda played keyboards and electronics, Paige Starling Sorvillo danced, I supplied the interactive video environment. This was all improvised from start to finish. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589384914240-2LE0H5Y2Q7B47ZA1D615/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Nate's set Improvisational set with Nathan Hill on sound, (for his birthday!), at Resonant Frequencies #17, in Oakland CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589386614414-JQISF4XLDF7LYS3SV7SG/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Dancing' Baby at LSG Documentation of our performance at the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589387853685-MZWMDMEHE9UQ1PSDBQZE/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - TAQO+Kit @ West Toast Documentation of our performance at Coaxial Arts Foundation in Los Angeles, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589388114619-XB1VIOBS5GFLLPF3VQQI/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Dream It Forward This video is documentation of a work in progress. It is a collaboration between dancers Tonya Powell and Tina Combs, choreographer Royland Lobato, musicians Yoel Mulen, Joe Churchill, and David Pedroso Rivero, and myself. This is one of my first attempts at establishing a video feedback environment large enough for people to perform in. The video was recorded by one of two Canon feedback cameras that were aimed at the projection screen. There were two other projectors throwing the same image to either side of the one you see. The performance took place on Dec 10 2017 at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland CA. We plan on doing a second performance in Berkeley, early in 2018 after working it up through more rehearsals. This project is supported in part by a grant from the Berkeley Civic Arts Commission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550186400528-MYF905ZAYE94IN5DGNZA/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Solo Trumpet at Crossroads Film Festival, 2018 This video is documentation of Brian Pedersen's and my performance at San Francisco Cinematheque's Crossroads Film Festival at SFMOMA. Solo Trumpet is a collaborative piece that is improvisational in both video and sound. Brian is playing a reeded trumpet and saxophone through many distortion pedals; I am playing a video loop of the CA coast through my video feedback and synthesis system. Sorry about the abrupt ending. I thought 8 minutes had gone by when I glanced at our timer and saw that run beyond our allotted 14 minutes! We can go on for hours.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550186318703-5Y0NAONWMD0OL38U0960/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - ResFreq11, Lachlan Fletcher, Kit Young https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550199104024-8O0QV2ZFTKRDOAWN9RF9/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Runcible Spoonfight Runcible Spoonfight's audio set at Resonant Frequencies, Oakland, July 1st 2018. Tom Djll, Clarke Robinson on audio synthesizers. Allison Holt and Kit Young on glass lenses, video feedback and synthesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476905460254-FHESZGEVGSCYJPLO91QN/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - TBWIG Portraits This video documents a live, improvised video performance at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA. It was the first set of three that we did for their August show. TBWIG Portraits condenses interviews I did of artists who participated in The Black Woman Is God show at SOMArts Gallery, curated by Karen Seneferu and Melorra Green, and combines them with dancers who are performing an Afro-Cuban folklore dance for the goddess Yemaya. Also mixed in are street scenes from Fanime-Con and downtown San Francisco. Huge thanks and gratitude to all who participated! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476905634369-9CJTJMK071IQCI98L9NT/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Wave Encounters Obstacle set 3 Grey Area Art and Technology show, May, 2016. Lori Varga on 16 and 35mm film, Thomas Dimuzio on Buchla synthesizer, myself on video feedback and video synthesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1442884536130-LPNRUFFX4J9B73SDAQ1L/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Ridge Space improv #1 This is documentation of the first set of a live, improvised sound and video show I did at the invitation of the musician Sung Kim for his residency at The Ridge Space in Oakland, CA. Two more sets followed, using different images and instrumentation. For this set Sung Kim played ozukuri, Shanna Sordahl, cello, and I played my video feedback environment. This is all live video with no effects or prerecorded loops used. Two rotating cameras are fed back through three flat screens and projected with three projectors mounted on their sides. Many thanks to SF Cinematheque and Krowswork for the use of their projectors! The projected image was approximately 22' wide by 9' high. My assistant, Michael Brown helped with the candle ritual and the placement of Sung Kim's matryoshka dolls. Sung and Shanna were playing through Sung's Sympathetic Resonator Cannons, which amplify, sustain, and harmonize with the sounds running through them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1427647826449-EWPUS1IG4UIILG0X51M3/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Believing is Seeing This video is documentation for an installation I did at Artist's Television Access in San Francisco during February, 2015. The installation used 6 cc cameras feeding their video signals to 6 screens in a randomized pattern. The screens and cameras were articulated with robotics and were in a randomized pattern of motion. The video signals and robotic motors were controlled with several Arduino microprocessors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1427649443533-CAEPFR81GKBRIM0KOX17/420856_10200422929087683_147805812_n-2.jpg performances, installations, and proposals - Window Proposal 2014 Storefront Window or Gallery Installation Proposal Installation to include the following elements: Multipul video screens and /or video projectors. Multiple closed circuit video cameras, (at least 4). Microprocessor switching devices to route the closed circuit camera signals to different screens at different times. Motorized, motion controlled devices, (robotics) that will change the view/ perspective of some of the cameras. Mannequins, props and models, (some also motorized), that will interact with the cameras, screens and each other. Design: My goal is to create an environment where the viewer is constantly trying to identify what perspective or viewpoint they are being shown. Imagine a street intersection where cars and pedestrians are going in many different directions at once. All of them are traveling with video cameras who's signals are shown randomly on a group of several video monitors. The effect of looking at the monitors would be to realize several relative viewpoints simultaneously. And there would be instances when two cameras would cross paths and record each other recording...Some of the cameras in the installation will at times be directed at the viewers outside on the street, and at other times the video cameras will be directed at the video screens themselves creating multiples of the same image, (video feedback). Please see documentation of my work for examples of video feedback and robotics at www.youngkit.com. Logistics: The robotics will be completed in 4 months time. The installation process will take three full days. The installation will be maintenance free except for turning it on and off. It will not be able to run continuously for weeks on end. Therefor, it should only be run when someone is at the location and is responsible for turning it on and off. I am available to do this on a daily basis, and to trouble shoot if problems arise. If the installation were to stay up for more that a week, it would be interesting to change some of the props and camera viewpoints throughout the run. I own all of the equipment thus far but would look for funding to purchase two large LCD screens or projectors. Thank you for your consideration. Kit Young www.youngkit.com youngkit50@gmail.com 510 375-9699 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394746567624-MN9EIXJP7X7MMAILYOUH/scan0003.jpg performances, installations, and proposals - Artists and Models proposal, page1 This proposal was conceived of and executed for the Artists And Models 2010 event, a fundraiser for Hallwalls, an exhibition space in Buffalo, N.Y. The work is titled Semipermiable Brain. Please look for documentation in my sculpture page. Excerpts from the written proposal are below. The proposed installation will include sculpture, video and kinetic art elements, and will have an audience participation dimension. It will require a 12' x 12' floor area as a footprint and need further space around it for the audience. The piece will be approximately 9' high and will need 1' of clearance above for assembly. A 10' high ceiling would suffice. These measurements are approximate, the piece can be modified to conform to a smaller space. The sculptural aspect of the piece will be an 8' high androgynous human head. It’s form and skin will be made of stretch-film packaging material which will be stretched over an armature made of recycled pipe and lumber. The stretch-film will be layered up thick enough to make it translucent so as to partially obscure the armature beneath. The translucency of the stretch-film skin will lend itself to back lighting and the display of images or found objects beneath it’s surface. The skin can also be drawn on from the exterior with sharpy marker to define and highlight it’s form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394747766249-DBTKZ1LA7BQ3PWTDXI0W/scan0002.jpg performances, installations, and proposals - Artists and Models proposal, page 2 The video component of the piece will be shown through two 19" LCD TV screens that will form the eyes of the head. These screens will be mounted on axles so that they can rotate up to a speed of 100 RPM. This will make the images they transmit unable to be viewed in the usual TV sense, though the speed will be variable by the audience. As the RPM slows, the video images will become more coherent in the usual way. The content of the video will be different for each screen. One screen will be a collage of talking heads from news clips and TV commercials; the other will contain personal, intimate, and natural imagery,( nothing sexually graphic). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394907311351-QK4BQG05RHCJLYSD345U/A%26M11.jpg performances, installations, and proposals - Our Favorite Shows Our Favorite Shows is a video performance piece that was staged for Hallwalls Artists And Models event, 2011. Excerpts for the proposal are below. Artists And Models Proposal '11: Our Favorite Shows , Performance of improvised video and sound. The video component of this piece will consist of three TV channels or shows that will be created using small props, toys, and materials. These scenes will be altered and manipulated throughout the performance to form narratives. The themes of the narratives will be: 1. News; with melting talking heads. 2. Action; chase, catastrophe, violence. 3. Sexy; advertisements and melting pop stars. The three scenes will be monitored with video cameras. Any one of the scenes will be projected on the wall behind the performance area where the scenes are being constructed. The scenes will be projected in random order as they reach the next point in their narrative. Some of the audience will be seated in front of the performance area,(the rest of the audience can stand). The audience will be able to view all the scenes as they are being developed as well as the projection of the chosen scene on the wall behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1395075697003-XZWZN8HHD9MRCH7Y7J1B/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Our Favorite Shows 2011 This is another, tighter distillation of the performance I gave at the Artists and Models event last year in Buffalo, N.Y. All the video imagery and sound was improvised during this one night event. Three old turntables played flee market records while driving mechanized stages upon which improvised scenes were enacted with thrift store dolls, figurines and props. It was conceived as a parody of the brain washing effect produced by most TV programming. This was a collaborative performance using the help of four guest VJs; Gary Sczerbaniewicz, Kate Gaudy, Angela Harris, and Tammy McGovern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1395009983295-NPB7KXSG9VJPMX3WRE9B/image-asset.jpeg performances, installations, and proposals - Interactive Sound Sculpture By Kit Young - 2010 "Music Is Art" Festival (2010-09-11) This is video documentation of an installation I did in Buffalo N.Y. http://videoactiveavocado.com/modern-canadacana daily 0.75 2022-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1659908307935-GEL46OCI3HKBQ6URBBGE/Stolen+Identity4.png Video Stills - Stolen Identity1 From the video essay by Allen Moore and myself. 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1659908307935-GEL46OCI3HKBQ6URBBGE/Stolen+Identity4.png Video Stills - Stolen Identity1 From the video essay by Allen Moore and myself. 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1659907969309-X2GX5DJ3FIOVSWLENYWR/Stolen+Identity5.png Video Stills - Stolen Identity2 From the video essay by Allen Moore and myself. 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588354387547-L8W01JW7ZRB0KYHCJTH0/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - Chasing Ghosts From the Performing Media Festival 20, Jacob's Escalator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588356553466-2NVOH92Z92DNMBNEICDF/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - my indecision Still from the Performing Media Festival 20, Jacob's Escalator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588356438498-G8TLRT753UCS8O4E29YN/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - Embedded Persona Still from the Performing Media Festival 20, Jacob's Escalator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1567089612815-5T6ERV39PVR8LTBHEPHQ/hierarchies%233.jpg Video Stills - Discorporate Hierarchies#1 Still from the video essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1567089751967-RXJ27ARCT5E05325OGE2/hierarchies%233a.jpg Video Stills - Discorporate Hierarchies#2 Still from the video essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1567089848789-9JFSMT7JOYJP7NKYEH19/hierarchies%233b.jpg Video Stills - Discorporate Hierarchies#3 Still from the video essay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550196124110-9E0ZGAITFX8VUBCD23AW/IDEF7.jpg Video Stills - Refraction Gate Still from the video I Dream of Electric Fungus, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550196288866-STYSHYTG926Y97ZCD9UA/IDEF10.jpg Video Stills - Guardian Still from I Dream of Electric Fungus, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589385428361-YI3NDTF0IF1RZYVT2BSJ/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - Discipline From the performance Interdiscipline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589385762236-KKVB8Z9UOAAV1SH0LMBZ/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - Lost in The Sauce From Interdiscipline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589385915115-KXXS20V9YM8411GFHGUT/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - Multiverse From the performance Interdiscipline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589385062152-JZY72UTLAJWR9JRFBNN9/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - Nate's Birthday Video still from the performance at Resonant Frequencies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589385227667-2P7VK0PJ6WLELSTXRQE9/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - A Perfect World Awaits From my Resonant Frequencies performance with Nathan Hill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550196020083-E19IST3QNISWXLME6RCW/heliopause1.jpg Video Stills - Heliopause Video still from the video short Heliopause, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589396485866-ZIGTOFACURUN7WAWY13D/TAQO6.jpg Video Stills - Fingers From my performance with TAQO TV at Coaxial, LA 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1525753826478-R188CIIHCS32T0KCE5Y0/screen+learning.jpg Video Stills - screen learning from the video short https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1525753937528-2NG04CACJBPQ5AWPAJJN/screen+learning1.jpg Video Stills - screen learning1 from the video short https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1513029814966-VITKOBEKJ8H5RR8LNBM7/solo+trumpet.jpg Video Stills - Solo Trumpet Still from video of the same name.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1513029953851-S5KNL8TVA7K8VXWD1FW8/solo+trumpet1.jpg Video Stills - Solo Trumpet 1 From the video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1589396663651-NRHE027JV0A6V9LZJQD6/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - Whole Fro our performance at Coaxial Arts, LA, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1513030059666-AZL78VUFINNG9QAPMWKF/solo+trumpet3.jpg Video Stills - Solo Trumpet 3 From the video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510694968127-XYNVG1LYKHQPNYG298RR/rehearsal4d.jpg Video Stills - Dream It Forward This is a video still from a collaborative project that combines Afro-Cuban dance with video art. In this frame Tina Combs is surrounded by video feedback. This project is funded by the Berkeley Civic Arts grant program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510694738329-B1N8EKD9BHRWWOKUHSFN/rehearsal%234v.jpg Video Stills - Your Aura Is Showing Video still from our last rehearsal in combining video art with Afro-Cuban dance.. Tina Combs on left, Tonya Powell right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510687389400-DOI77AKB232WHNPYBC2T/rehearsal4d.jpg Video Stills - Dream It Forward This is a video still from a collaborative project that combines Afro-Cuban dance with video art. In this frame Tina Combs is surrounded by video feedback. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510695170129-X448LTTC3T5E0W4S8TBN/Ten+Thousand+Steps.jpg Video Stills - Ten Thousand Steps Video still from my video short of the same name. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1510695601008-8H7IQ9QM6Q2L3DV3VDS5/Bindery+set.jpg Video Stills - Bindery Set Video still from a performance I did with Fred Rinne on sound and spoken word. Performance took place at The Bindery in San Francisco earlier this fall, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1550197587956-DR7G73YORN6Q56N6MQCZ/Capture0001e.jpg Video Stills - Audiovisualization Video still from a work in progress, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476905099803-9N12FWUM7NKUU25WMZFD/found+you+floating.jpg Video Stills - Found You Floating https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1442887426292-K0XXUVY3BZWIRUH5030A/image-asset.jpeg Video Stills - For Michael B. The latest video still... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476904910377-LDBQUM29OHIABYX0LP9U/Girl+Had+Me1.jpg Video Stills - Girl Had Me 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476904985412-M3WVRCBDJ0ILEVWZ9SXG/Great+Barrier+Grief2.jpg Video Stills - Great Barrier Grief 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1432843483600-7KP9V65F80OX8R3DA62Z/PsychoNation1.jpg Video Stills - With Liberty and Justice for 1% Still from the video Psycho Nation 2.0, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1432843494185-C5N2DVW8XBD7EI5LCQPS/SFC6.jpg Video Stills - Descend and Abandon Video still from the video Descend and Abandon, (anthropocene), 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1432843473658-6EDJR7PBCMC4KR4XR780/Caddy1.jpg Video Stills - White Asses Video still from the video Their White Asses, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1432843452345-YYOEPDHQ7JZC8Q1HQAWD/3rd+Eye+Feedback1.jpg Video Stills - Third Eye Video still from the video Third Eye Feedback, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1399329296851-0ZAGL4HE545E7FPOYCA5/dbl.jpg Video Stills - I'm So Happy Still from the video "My Happy Place", 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1427649695026-CWESCLNKEKI0RMVC26ZS/3rd+Eye+Feedback1.jpg Video Stills - Third Eye Feedback This is a video still taken from the video Third Eye Feedback https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394558400485-NE0WNIHNZ786GGC1VLT4/talking+head1.jpg Video Stills - Usually Suspect From the video Talking Head, 2013. Digital prints, films and light boxes are available for all stills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394559736400-C9W37KQ3REJJ4599HECM/2013-11-10+10%3A16%3A09.jpg Video Stills - Handsome Devil From the video Talking Head, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394559717339-9SG6DFFXZWOL6942IBJE/2013-11-11+15%3A28%3A11.jpg Video Stills - Melting Face From the video Talking Head, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394559672454-3DONPV1CPXO8KABLW242/the+avocado+sings.jpg Video Stills - Banana Mandala From the video DiskoParty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394559689765-9G2LD6TCNXUI0FGKZF3X/not+so+good+VS+not+so+evil.jpg Video Stills - Not So Good VS Not So Evil From the video DiskoParty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394559871977-WMJDIVQCEPIT016Z8Z06/Christopher_Young1.jpg Video Stills - Me and My Clones From the video A Better Place, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394559904121-3GHUJAFJCUPQIV80DM2W/A+Better+Place.jpg Video Stills - Mirror Mirror From the video A Better Place, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394559951464-1GFA6RFECU4HGEC0WTGJ/DVtest.jpg Video Stills - Grabbing Bowl From the video Gator-E-Later, 2013. http://videoactiveavocado.com/kityoung daily 1.0 2021-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588459870653-GAZ6GM0ZCG0JO5J2NFCT/image-asset.jpeg index https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588460630362-GJ8REGG88KKAA4CKA8N5/image-asset.jpeg index - intro/statement I am an interdisciplinary multimedia artist working in the combined genres of video, sound, kinetic sculpture, and performance. I also sketch, draw and journal to keep my eye- to- hand connection fresh, to catalogue ideas and images, and to keep some roots in traditional methods of production. In my practice of art, I hold several lines of inquiry in mind: Can the elements of a work of art be as diverse as possible while still allowing the piece to function as a whole? How do the mechanisms of our perception determine our reality? What is the relationship between art and reality, given the crucial role of perceptual mechanisms in producing what we take to be reality? How do our systems of belief and our media- saturated environment distort and transform what we perceive? What is the relationship between art and democracy, historically and currently? Why is the art world still so lacking in diversity and integration? What place can ethics and mindfulness have in the practice of art? My art is improvisational and explorative. I enjoy using compositional systems of loose structures that can respond to chance and chaos. I also appreciate the way that humor and play loosen our rigid reactions and assumptions, allowing us to re-experience reality in unexpected and liberating ways. Please use the images on this page as a index to the pages listed on left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588458763022-YGUC408TPCOQKVVROTKC/image-asset.jpeg index - Introduction and Statement I am an interdisciplinary multimedia artist working in the combined genres of video, sound, kinetic sculpture, and performance. I also sketch, draw and journal to keep my eye- to- hand connection fresh, to catalogue ideas and images, and to keep some roots in traditional methods of production. In my practice of art, I hold several lines of inquiry in mind: Can the elements of a work of art be as diverse as possible while still allowing the piece to function as a whole? How do the mechanisms of our perception determine our reality? What is the relationship between art and reality, given the crucial role of perceptual mechanisms in producing what we take to be reality? How do our systems of belief and our media- saturated environment distort and transform what we perceive? What is the relationship between art and democracy, historically and currently? Why is the art world still so lacking in diversity and integration? What place can ethics and mindfulness have in the practice of art? My art is improvisational and explorative. I enjoy using compositional systems of loose structures that can respond to chance and chaos. I also appreciate the way that humor and play loosen our rigid reactions and assumptions, allowing us to re-experience reality in unexpected and liberating ways. Please use the images on this page as a index to the pages listed on left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588460706152-KHHV8J12JD5O2S2QLG7V/image-asset.jpeg index - Performances Documentation of a live streamed performance I did for the Ann Arbor Film Festival 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588353639075-UCE1N51TY7WMO3G5MUBK/image-asset.jpeg index - Video essays and shorts Icicles Grow Diagonally in Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1588353930631-V3OG7PA1AL0CIBLS8FJ7/the+avocado+sings.jpg index - video stills Video still from Performing Media Festival 20, Jacob's Escalator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1476907526099-RW6SGBXXWLX7KDXSFRHD/IMG_0740.jpg index - sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394560986945-4ZOP0UHJ57KXZTSYORID/IMG_0848.jpg index - random portraits The Random Portraits are drawings developed from anonymous sketches done in cafes around the SF bay area. Besides the subject matter being random,( whomever happens to be sitting nearby), the relationships between watercolor background and ink line drawing are also random. http://videoactiveavocado.com/statement daily 0.75 2015-02-19 http://videoactiveavocado.com/contact daily 0.75 2015-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1394817085350-DX93DHK2PEA3IXGWY99O/image-asset.png email Eggplant Sings the Blues http://videoactiveavocado.com/exhibitions daily 0.75 2025-07-07 http://videoactiveavocado.com/new-page daily 0.75 2015-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1442887299403-QONUUPNQWYUAURWUI6LA/Mike+Brown.jpg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531f404be4b0862de088cf86/1442886286076-QL9OK6ZNH6SW1TXT8MW2/Mike+Brown.jpg Media