I am a Santa Cruz artist focused on social practice, sculpture, performance and new media work. Here are the major projects I’m pursuing.
The Secret History of American River People
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Secret History is a project to build a collection of personal stories of people who live and work on the river from the deck of a recreated 1940s-era shantyboat over a series of epic river voyages. The project explores the issues facing current river communities, the long history of people who have lived on and adjacent to the river, and basic river ecology.Over the last three years, I have spent my summers doing fieldwork, floating down the Upper Mississippi River and the Tennessee River gathering stories. This summer, I explore California rivers.read more |
Adventures in Urban Landscape
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I’m creating a series of large shadow boxes based on Google Streetview urban landscapes laser cut out of reclaimed cardboard. This intersects my interests in geo-mapping, organic textures, urban architecture, and diorama. It emerges from my love of landscapes rendered in graphic novels.
I could imagine these being custom made for people wanting to represent their streets or neighborhoods. |
Night Ride Storyteller Project
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The Night Ride Storyteller Project is a robotic radio producer that gathers user-contributed personal narrative and music, using heuristic algorithms to produce an aural collage of personal stories and music, making the results available through streaming and podcasts.Night Ride is a dreamy collage of music and story, a perfect opportunity for an experiment in automated radio production. read more |
Bear Creek Interactive Fiction
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Bear Creek, August 1975.
Bear Creek is interactive fiction, a coming-of-age story from a child’s point-of-view. I’m working on the final installment of this story. |
Inspiration Comes in the Night
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Want a glimpse of future projects coming out of my workshop? There is no better place to find them than here.
Inspiration Comes in the Night is a weblog about art, chronicling the uneven journey through the world of visual art, social practice, performance, and technology. Art ideas, inspirations, projects, proposals, and recent news. |
For more about my visual art, digital and new media art, performance and social practice, community organizing, teaching, technology work, as well as employment and education history, check out the overview.