 + Recent Work Vigil (Analog Pixelation) digital imaging, wood 44"X 44" 2012 One major feature of all analog systems is random unwanted variation- noise. Given enough time and distance, noise eventually swamps the signal. Random variations slowly accumulate, subvert the system and become dominant. Digital channels of surveillance used by institutional power to spy, coerce and control by eroding privacy and detecting deviance can also be co-opted by the surveilled to broadcast deviance,imperfection, individuality and self-indulgence to social body, re-inscribing the marginal (analog) at the heart of mainstream (digital) culture... more  High Five found porcelain, chain 5"X12"X12" 2012
I had been ignoring the Twins for about seven months. Like all relationships there was an initial fascination, but developing the text for the Hobson's pieces usually takes quite a bit of listening on my part, and frankly they weren't saying anything that I found particularly interesting until...more
 AKA v.1.0 & AKA v.2.0 installed at Moreau Gallery 2012
AKA v.1.0 closed circuit projection with sound; 1 gallon of lake water elephant table,electronics, digital image on cvs. focus spot AKA v.2.0 single channel video 4.05 min. Spirit Lake is 3,980 miles from Toledo. Elephant Lake is 3,980 miles from Toledo. I am equidistant from Spirit and Elephant. They are the same- but not. AKA v.1.0 is a meta-representation of a quantum topology disguised as a severely bracketed narrative...more
 Itsa Stretch Electronic Billboard Project Toledo, OH. October, 2012. Itsa Stretch is the simplest and most graphic of my proposals. Not coincidentally it is also the most superficially affirming and positive. However in addition to appearing carefree, the spread toes could indicate pain or tension. It could just as easily depict a lynching as it could a child on a swing. I was also directly referencing the pre renaissance images of the hand of God descending from the clouds. Quite a difference if God offers not a hand, but instead, a full-impact, toe-splayed stomp... more 
Elephant Call video loop,monitor,wood,found objects 9.05 min. 2012
Pineal Eye video Installation, electronics 9.55 min. v.2 2012 A recent incarnation of Pineal Eye that uses a larger 7" screen. The effect is somewhat more aggressive, whereas the original eyeglass viewer (see below) feels more intimate. I built this in order to have a robust version that traveled well without me... more  AKA single channel video 4.05 min. 2012
"IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU CAN SEE THE BALD EAGLE SIT ON THE PINE..." AKA is based on a first-hand account of a fishing trip to Spirit Lake, Alaska, also known to the locals as Elephant Lake. Spirit Lake is 3,980 miles from Toledo. I have never been there. The video was inspired by a very matter-of-fact account of a rather uneventful fishing trip on a mundane personal website. Distance is largely what this piece is about, distance from spirit and distance from elephant (for me a metaphor for the world)... more  Packing Up two-channel video installation 7.35 min. 2012
Cancer is no joke. Neither is confronting one’s own mortality. The seriousness of these two frightening realities however, doesn’t prevent them from being ironic: As we sicken and age we become increasingly preoccupied with health. The closer we approach death the more reflective and conscious we become of life... more  Pineal Eye Video Installation, cell phone, optics, electronics, 9.55 min. 2011 Pineal Eye tells the story of a boy’s visit to the optometrist. The treatment for his “lazy eye” has unintended side effects and the boy loses his metaphysical and perceptual equilibrium, introducing him to a world marked by otherness and haunted by absence... more  Subimago Video installation, 1.30 min. video loop, electronics, masks, wood "Tallula made these masks for me... I don't think this is what she had in mind..." The subimago is a unique morphological stage in the life of a mayfly. No longer a nymph and as yet a functional adult, the subimago is particularly vulnerable... more  The Boggle Project Ongoing series, digital imaging on canvas, 36x24", 2011-
The Boggle series is a series of simple experiments designed to test my skill at postnostication, the rather common but none-the-less uncanny ability to foretell the past... more  Hobson's Choice Ongoing series digital imaging on canvas, 36x28", 2011- Questions of identity and identification must always be answered in the plural, and choices, when we make them, are simply provisional, pragmatic and expedient. Can a multiple choice test function like poetry and point toward the richness and ambiguity of existence?.. more  Telemetry Video installation, 63x36x92", 3.22min video loop, electronics I documented a debate with my daughter: Is intelligence or God immanent in a croquet ball? This exchange is played for a ball that has been wired with an embedded surveillance microphone. The telemetry received from within the ball is amplified and translated into a LED array, a visual “ball language” display of what it is “sensing”... more  Second Coming Audio installation, 7 min. audio loop, mixed media, 168x48x48”, 2009 The rumbling sound of a rolling ball emanates from the tube, seeming to repeatedly approach only to recede down another conduit. This piece explores inference and anticipation... more  Point of Control audio installation, dimensions variable, stools, stilts, electronic duration 3.22 Point of Control is an interactive audio installation about choice. The audio track describes a journey back into the swamps of the “alligator brain” to the “wisps of jelly” that make our decisions well before we have made a conscious choice...more  Lay Bare video installation, 69x24x18" 27 min. loop 2009 ...The sense of time reversal is difficult to maintain as one continues to watch. The piece uses the scale dependence of time perception to explore epistemology and the culture of false disclosure in both science and entertainment... more  Monster Feet video installation, four 5" monitors, 66x84” 2009 What little things we do to make ourselves feel a little bigger...more  Pell Mell Video installation, 3 min. video loop on 7” monitor, 2009 Pell Mell explores the effects of temporal compression and distention on memory, attention and perception under pressure of “small screen, low-fi" culture... more  Combover Audio installation, 90x96x66”, oil on panel, wire recorder, a mile of stainless steel wire, electronics Combover is named for a kind of practiced yet naive denial once commonly exhibited by the prematurely balding. In this piece I use this as a metaphor for the ways in which the weight of memory distorts perception, which in turn biases and alters memory... more |
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