Projects

 

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Every Day I Am A Train
Video Installation on four screens featuring 19 performers acting like a train. Exhibitions: CAFKA, Kitchener, Ontario, 2016; Night\Shift, Kitchener, Ontario, 2016.

The Burden of Communication
Performative ritual, towing bricks around a clocktower based on live-tweeting of “digital sins.” Exhibitions: Night\Shift, Kitchener, Ontario, 2015.

Digital Tabernacle
Performance with antique Catholic tabernacle, lifelogging camera, digital audio recorder, and street preaching. Exhibitions: Carnival of the Future, Tempe, AZ, 2014. CAFKA Biennial, 2014. Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2014. Documented in Slate Magazine, April, 2014

Shifty Eyes
Performance, net art, and large-screen projection. Five mobile lifelogging cameras documenting Night\Shift outdoor arts festival. Kitchener, Ontario, 2013.

Myth of the Steersman
Sculptural installation and net art. Cedar and canvas canoe with 3 touch-screen displays, wrapped in fishing line. Web interface. Winner of Gamble Family Award for digital art, 2010. Exhibitions: THEMUSEUM, Kitchener 2010; Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, 2010; Rail’s End Gallery, Haliburton, 2011; Algonquin Park Visitor Centre, 2012; Canadian Canoe Museum, Peterborough, 2013.

Teat Tweet
Net art and animal biofeedback performance. Automated Twitter feed and web interface tracking cows at a robotic dairy farm, 2009. Showcased at 2010 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

Dairy Diary  (with Ron Broglio)
Large scale video installation on Kitchener City Hall to accompany Teat Tweet project. Commissioned by City of Kitchener. December, 2009.

Cycle of Dread
Biofeedback installation and large-scale projection in downtown location. Public art and participatory performance. Commissioned by City of Kitchener Public Arts Working  Group, August, 2009.

GEOMOSAIC
Participatory Art project. Geotracking and GPS visualization with public collaboration, Artery Gallery and City of Kitchener, Funded by Ontario Arts Council, June, 2009.

Border Disorder
Digital video installation, 18 min. Art Gallery of Windsor, October, 2007.

Screening Coffin Meets Empty Days (with UK animation artist, Dane Watkins)
Digital animation in a customized wood coffin equipped with embedded computer.
University of Waterloo School of Architecture, October, 2007

Coincidence, or Necromedia?
Digital video installation, 12 min. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, April, 2006

Spleenhouse
Video installation in a transplanted greenhouse. Art Gallery of Windsor, June, 2006

Screening Coffin (with Kentucky sculptor, Bud Davis)
Video installation in a customized wood coffin. Quicktime and Flash. Morlan Art Gallery,
Lexington, KY, 2005; Artery Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, 2009.

Necromedia
Video installation in a hand-sewn coffin/screening environment. iDEAs Digital Media Festival, March, 2005, Orlando, Florida.

Dreadmill
Installation and kinetic performance. Treadmill hardwired to laptop with biofeedback control. Interactive Media Forum, Oxford, Ohio, October, 2004; iDEAs 2005, Orlando, Florida, March, 2005; University of Waterloo, October, 2005; Bowling Green University, October 2005; Transylvania University, October 2005; Georgia Tech, Atlanta, November, 2005; Centenary College, Shreveport, LA, November, 2005; Art Institute of Chicago, IL, November, 2005; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, December, 2005