Wave Rendering

Wave Rendering is a resonant sculpture and material specific sound visualization platform. Consisting of a large copper vessel and a steel platform driven by a soundtrack composed of relative resonant frequencies the semi-viscous medium reveals competing and complimentary waveforms.(12’ X 4’X 9’ – including resonant platform. Copper, steel, glycerin, H2O, UV dye, custom software and amplification system driving tactile transducers in stereo, Gallery 2 Chicago, IL...

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HiTek Lawn

An aeroponically sustained, soil-less, self-contained environment for lawn growth, the system was devised to illuminate salient issues and connections with sustainable agriculture, technocracy and the evolution of our dependencies on technology. (Exhibited at “Lawn Nation” May-Sept 2008, as commissioned by The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago,...

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Extruded Curves

Extruded Curves is a digitally generated sculpture, modeled in 3D software and realized on a CNC milling machine. The organic shape retains the fine surface striations left by the milling tools, leaving the object a hybrid: a meshing of natural and machine processes. The sculpture was finished by hand using gauche and high gloss fixatives, highlighting the relationship of the chitinous form and the designed object. (Approximately 12”x 1”x 4”. Exhibited at Gallery 415 the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,...

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Prisoner’s Cinema

A therapeutic ‘Mind Machine’ is employed to provide a closed-eye cinematicexperience that combined with vulnerable positioning, leaves the participant with the experience of having been observed in isolation and of having been the victim of intrusive manipulation. (Video, surveillance technology, 5.1 surround sound, Gallery 2 Chicago, IL...

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Anonymous

A series of short vignettes shot on 35mm infrared film and digitally re-sequenced are rear-projected on a pane of one-way glass. Framed in a hallway mirror that reflects an asynchronous projection, images – alternately photographs, cinema and the viewer – address the physiological and emotional responses to portraiture and to film. Drawing inspiration from Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrew Wyeth, the distant memory of a lover, or searcher, plays out and compels the imaginer to travel alongside a lonely protagonist. (Video, sound...

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Channel Group

A software developer, having created a time-lapse video surveillance system, experiences a dynamic and multi-layered collection of personal histories from which a sense of origin finally erodes. (Video and sound 5’46” 2005. Built around software developed for Time...

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