SVEN (Surveillance Video Entertainment Network) (2006)

Real-time computer vision and surveillance system that detects "likely rock stars" among pedestrians and generates music videos based upon their features, as a humorous commentary on the subjectivity and malleability of technological systems used for control. SVEN is a public space project, exhibited in both stationary locations and primarily in a van-based "SVEN Mobile Unit."

TOPLAP (2004-Present)

Live performance ensemble and international online discussion group specifically focused on the emerging activity of livecoding. Livecoding involves writing and/or modifying custom audiovisual performance software as an integral part of the performance. Computer code is projected live as it is being written, generally with a performative component to the code-writing itself. The focus is on foregrounding and demystifying the programming process as a creative and performative act in contemporary audiovisual performance.

CYBERSPACELAND (2003 - Present)

CyberSpaceLand is an all-text VJ performance that uses custom software, repurposed consumer computer hardware, Internet text, and a live, highly kinetic performer. A humorous, public space art performance, CyberSpaceLand is typically performed in nightclubs, as a type of intervention into club visual performance – aka VJing. CyberSpaceLand brings physical human performance and narrative to VJ'ing. The loose screen narratives are formed from specifically-chosen Internet search queries. The presentation is designed to be easily understood while maintaining a club atmosphere of dancing, socializing, etc.

(Note: CyberSpaceLand evolved from an older performance, Botimation (2000-2003). Botimation was performed for sit-down art audiences and did not contain the range of visual effects that CyberSpaceLand does. There is a webage documenting Botimation within the CyberSpaceLand website.)

DEPROGRAMMING.US PERFORMANCES (2003 - Present)

Various short audiovisual performances addressing the convergence of work, play and technology in contemporary culture. Examples include Extreme Whitespace (a UNIX shell performed as a VJ instrument), The Typewriter (updated version of a 1950 musical composition in which an office machine is performed as a musical instrument), and Everybody VJ (large group performance of various pieces of utilitarian software and hardware as VJ tools.)