12.21.2011

"Allegory of Light" performed at PAX Miami (Art Basel week)

Friday night during Art Basel in Miami this year, I performed on the main stage at PAX Miami (Performing Arts Exchange Miami) as part of the group show titled "Informal Correspondence", curated by my good friend Joey Meyer, currently undertaking his MFA at Miami University.

"Allegory of Light" was an analog version of the software program Photoshop, where my body was the cursor (the index of human interaction with technology) and the stage was the file window in which I worked. The stage or "window" was lined from front to back with layers of color and varying transparencies, through the use of plastic and wax materials. I projected video onto the screen in back of all the layers, which was a video I created in AfterEffects that contained duplicates of myself painting on a wall in a room, going back and forth through time both dressed as Birth and as Death. During the performance, the cursor (me) would move throughout the layers and cut away shapes and pieces.

"Allegory of Light" was fully video-taped. Typically I post all my performance footage online, however, my camera was stolen that night, and so I've got these fancy iPhone photos instead.























5.22.2011

"Agua" aired in Denver LED billboard exhibition

My video "Agua" was included in Denver's very first LED billboard art show, "Frame of Mind", a video and motion-based art exhibition that took place on the brand new LED screen at the corner of 14th and Champa St. in downtown Denver. The exhibition was  presented by the Denver Theatre District and the Downtown Denver Partnership, and curated by Ivar Zeile of Plus Gallery.

Video footage was filmed specifically for the Denver billboard exhibit while in Asheville, NC... Asheville being my new residence for working on art projects and playing in the woods. I used keyboard symbols to create an emoticon for water. Denver is a very dry place in the summer. This video was created for Denver, with hopes to spread a meme of hydration (drought reduction) through the minds that viewed it over time, as they passed by the billboard from day to day.

You can kind of make out the video here, at 1:11.