Love it or Leave it – 2004

This was the first Chicago Art Department Exhibit The exhibit followed 15 weeks of collaborative learning and discussions. A merger of the three instructors favorite students and favorite artists from the community. All of the artworks were designed to communicate the theme “Love it or Leave it”

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LOVER LEAVER – 2004

LOVER LEAVER Location: Transamoeba – South Loop – Chicago Year: 2003 All of the members of the rock band Hive of Fives, including myself, took part in the Chicago Art Department (see below). The topic chosen for the first CAD exhibit was “Love It or Leave It’. For the CAD…

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FEAR OF FALLING – 2004

In the spring of 2004, Laura Chiarmonte and Marvin Marzocco of the modern dance company  Creative Arts Melting Pot, contacted Deb Vogt and I, to see if we were interested in contributing a multimedia performance for their upcoming show about fears. IMAGERY After a brief conversation about our fears and…

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HISTORY WHISTLE – 2003

History Whistle is the first video I created using the video printmaking technique wherin a performer slides class plates containing parts of the whole image in front of a video camera. The viewer watches the image being created and disected as the camera jumps focus from layer to layer. History…

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RIGHT RIGHT ROOK – VJ ART – 2003

Right Right Rook So my buddy ralph did it again . He chopped up The Right Stuff (a 1980’s heroic space-race movie.) I have always been a space geek and I felt obligated to give his clips a try.I added a bit of my archive – video game fighter jets…

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WORKSHIFT – 2003

I have had no better collaborative art experience than the Workshift performance. Jane Gilmore and BJ Krivanek, both university professors, pulled together their favorite alums and assembled an intermedia cast of choreographers, storytellers, composers, conceptualists, documentarians and experimental media artists. The project was to tell the stories of woman working…

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PRDF@MCA – 2002

Peoples Republic of Delicious Food @ The Museum of Contemporary Art PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF DELICIOUS FOOD (PRDF) was an artist collective that operated through a list serve, when an event was proposed, e-mails and phone calls went out. In some cases people showed up the night of and the event took…

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THE SEXTON @ IRISH VALLEY – 2001

This is a series of 4 video stories that I created while studying at the University of Iowa in the Intermedia Department. The department had a long tradition of video art and a new set of digital tools. This was one of my first experiments in mildly abstract digital video…

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TORNADO SIREN… PLEASE – 2000

One of my first solo multi camera shots. I skipped class that night because I had nothing to present to the class. I got the idea that I would present something, instead to myself and four cameras. This is a live camera in which I am switching the video feeds…

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ELEMENTS – UBERZETSUNG – 1999

At the University of Iowa Intermedia Workshop we were challenged to make artworks on the topic of Translation or Uberzetsung (in german) for a collaborative exhibition with a group of German artists. I chose to translate several elements of the Periodic Table. I used the atomic mass (as a unique…

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