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.

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.

Mixed media with built in video loop

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.

Front view of mixed media sculpture, showing video screen.

Mixed media, wall hanging sculpture, with built in video loop.

Detail of mixed media 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.
 
 

mixed media sculpture with 3 video screens and one CC camera built in.

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?


mixed media sculpture with 2 video screens, 2 video loops, 2 CC cameras. Viewers pedal stationary bikes which spin the video screens...

mixed media sculpture with two video screens built in. The viewer can pedal two stationary bikes which spin the video screens...

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.