Shows

  • SVEN
  • Scream
  • Olly/Open Scream
  • CyberSpaceLand
  • Toplap.org
  • Runme.org
  • Deprogramming.us
  • Discordia
  • Reamweaver
  • CueJack
  • b0timati0n
  • theBot
  • netsong
  • netaesthesia
  • plagiarist.org
  • The Multi-Cultural Recycler
  • unbroken pieces
  • ants under a mushroom
  • four
  • 5pm
  • I, Jacob Reed
  • The Cage
  • Other Recent Projects

SVEN

(Surveillance Video Entertainment Network)
- aka AI to the People

Public-space performance and installation. Real-time computer vision and surveillance system that detects likely rockstars and generates music videos. Collaboration with Jesse Gilbert, Wojcieck Kosma, Vincent Rabaud and Nikhil Rasiwasia. Production begun as Artist in Residence at the Digital Research Unit, Huddersfield, UK, Summer 2005.
http://deprogramming.us/sven

  • BYOTV exhibition, New American Art Union, Portland, Oregon, March - April 2008. [SVEN documentation included in gallery exhibition for this event; not a real-time SVEN performance or installation]


  • Whitney Museum, New York, June - September 2007.


  • Zemos 98 Festival, Sevilla, Spain, March 2007.


  • Mediation Station exhibition, Perform.Media festival, Indiana University (Bloomington) School of Fine Arts Gallery, Bloomington IN, October 2006. [SVEN documentation included in gallery exhibition for this event; not a real-time SVEN performance or installation].


  • ISEA 2006, San Jose, August 2006.


  • Digital Art Weeks, Zürich, July 2006.


  • Sneak Preview Beta performance: The State and City Library of Dortmund, Germany. Guest of the Readme 100 Festival. November 2005.


  • Alpha performance: Lord Street, HD1 1RL, Huddersfield, UK. Guest of the Digital Research Unit. September 2005.


    • Scream (May 2005)

    A software application to facilitate screaming.
    http://scream.deprogramming.us

  • RADICAL SOFTWARE: Piemonte Share Festival 2006 - Limitless. Torino, Italy, March 2006.


  • FILE 2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 2005.


  • "Desktop Opus 1.0" (film produced with Scream). Bitfilm Festival, Hamburg, November 2005.


    • Olly/Open Scream (July 2005)

    Making a proprietary programming environment into an open source one.
    http://deprogramming.us/olly

  • Code - an online exhibit of open-source net-based code art hosted by Year01. July 2005.


    • CyberSpaceLand (2003 - Present)

    The live internet geek VJ. A rewrite/upgrade of b0timati0n software and a new live performance as a VJ in bars and dance clubs.

    Documentation/sample images at http://cyberspaceland.org/

    (Additional performance projects documented at http://deprogramming.us/perfs)

  • Brokenbeat, Club Kadan, San Diego, September 2007


  • Upgrade!Tijuana, CECUT, Tijuana, July 2007


  • Spasibar, Oslo, in conjunction with Oslo National Academy of the Arts. October 2006.


  • Viper International Festival of Film, Video and New Media: Nominee. Basel, March 2006.


  • Readme 100 Software Art Festival, Dortmund, Germany, November 2005.


  • Le Placard Headphone Festival, London, September 2005.


  • Prix Ars Electronica: Honorary Mention. Linz, September 2005.


  • Dorkbot London, August 2005.


  • The Media Centre (Exhibition Opening), Huddersfield, UK, July 2005.


  • C-base - Transmediale Partner Event, Berlin, February 2005.


  • Read_Me 2004/Runme Dorkbot City Camp, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2004.


  • Sonar - Sonarama Venue, Barcelona, June 2004.


  • First Avenue - main stage - Minneapolis, MN, May 2004.


  • Dinkytowner Cafe - Minneapolis, MN, April 2004.


  • Landmark Club. Piksel Worshop - Bergen Centre for Electronic Art, Bergen Norway, November 2003.


  • Melkweg/Next 5 Minutes, Amsterdam, September 2003.

  • The Neighborhood @ The Stone, Los Angeles, August 2003.


  • CafeCRCA, San Diego, July 2003.


    • Toplap.org (2004 - Present)

    Group project - International livecoding performance ensemble.
    http://toplap.org

  • Club Transmediale, Berlin, February 2005.


  • Runme-Dorkbot City Camp, Aarhus, August 2004.


    • Runme.org (2003 - Present)

    Group project - International software art repository.
    http://runme.org

  • Open Line Show, Maribor, Slovenia, May 2005.


  • Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention, September 2004.


    • and... co-organizer of Runme-Dorkbot City Camp at Read_Me 2004. (Also see Other Recent Activity).

    Also organizer of Everybody VJ, a Very Large Group Performance of fifteen people doing strange things with VJ'ing... at Runme-Dorkbot City Camp - August 2004.

    Deprogramming.us (2003 - Present)

    Software art for the post-dot com age.
    http://deprogramming.us

    Deprogramming.us projects presented at:

  • Sonar, Barcelona, 2005 - "Digital a la carte " exhibition - (extreme whitespace installation).


  • Transmediale, Berlin, 2005 - (The Typewriter live performance).


  • Read_me 3.4, Aarhus, August 2004 - (TheTypewriter live performance).


  • Read_me 2.3, Helsinki, June 2003 - (extreme whitespace live performance).


  • Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania, September 2003.


    • Discordia (2003-2004)

    Group project.
    Slightly offbeat community weblog for critical media culture.

    http://discordia.us

    Reamweaver (2002)

    Group project in association with The Yes Men.
    Software for automating creation of more directly honest parody sites.
    http://reamweaver.com

    CueJack (2001)

    Software for using CueCat scanners to scan barcodes to get more honest product information.
    http://cuejack.com

  • Open Source Art Hack, New Museum, New York, 2002.


  • Female Takeover at Ars Electronica, September, 2001.


    • b0timati0n (2000 - 2003)

    Live software/net art performance.
    Text results from an internet search engine "bot" displayed in continuously animating patterns. Something of a search-engine-gone-light-show, the text is interactively "conducted" by an ?bergeek performer using geek toys ("air mouse" and post-Stelarcian Mattel power glove.) Web text becomes cool! - With all the hipness of a designer pocket protector.... A humorous look at the merging and hype of geekness and cool in contemporary culture.
    Documentation/sample images at http://b0timati0n.org/

  • Transmediale, Berlin, February 2003.


  • ENSBA, Paris, January 2003


  • Bootlab, Berlin, October 2002.


  • Read_Me 1.2, Moscow, May 2002.


  • Time Forms, CRCA, UC San Diego, April 2002.


  • Electronic Orphanage/medi@terra, Los Angeles/Internet, Sept/Oct 2001.


  • Borderhack, Tijuana, August 2001.


  • digital_is_not_analog.01, Bologna, Italy, May 2001.


  • CEAIT 2001, CalArts, Los Angeles, January 2001.


  • Einsperren, Aussperren, Aufsperren, Munich, October 2000.


    • theBot (one infesting the horse) (2000 - present)

    Realtime, time-based animation and audio net art project using a web search engine robot to reveal the "narrative" of the web. Text gathered by the robot moves as "packets" across the screen and is heard as layered speech spoken by a speech synthesizer. An examination and perverse poetification of the narrative of the web.
    http://thebot.org/

  • Rhizome Art Base 101, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, June - September 2005.


  • Vigil of Planetary Net Art, Internet, March 2004.


  • Art in Motion, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, September-November 2003.


  • Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania, September 2003.


  • Artmedia, Paris, November/December 2002.


  • Faculty Show, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, April-June 2002.


  • Observatori, Valencia, Spain, December 2001.


  • SeNef - Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea, November/December 2001.


  • Lite Show - Festival of Low Bandwidth Media, Boston/Internet, April 2001. Winner - Best Flyweight Project.


  • D-I-N-A (Digital is Not Analog), Internet, March 2001.


  • Paris/Berlin International Meetings, Paris, March 2001.


  • Art in Motion II, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, February 2001. Winner - Intelefilm Award For Creative Excellence.


  • Transmediale, Berlin, February 2001.


  • immedia 1901, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 2001.


  • Art on the Net 2000, Tokyo/Internet, November 2000.

    • netsong (2000 - present)

    Realtime, streaming audio net art project; collaboration with Peter Traub. Internet text, speech synthesized and processed as music (singing internet text), based upon user input searchterm. A satire on the nature of internet text and the tendency to constantly create new forms of media and technology.
    http://netsong.org/

  • Transcodex exhibit, Boston CyberArts Festival, April 2003.


  • Soundtoys, Internet, February 2002.


  • Art on the Net 2001, Tokyo/Internet, October/November 2001. Winner - Honorary Mention.


  • European Media Art Festival,Osnabr?ck, Germany, April 2001.


  • CADE Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.


  • Net.congestion, Amsterdam/Internet, October 2000.

    • netaesthesia (2000 - 2001)

    Net art installation/performance/rave.
    Text from the internet, speech synthesized and processed as music, fed into kitsch, psychedelic, abstract-animated graphics. A tongue-in-cheek look at the continuing arms race in net culture and technology.
    Documentation/sample images at http://plagiarist.org/neta

  • medi@terra/Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles/Internet, Sept/Oct2001.


  • digital_is_not_analog.01, Bologna, Italy, May 2001.


  • CEAIT 2001, CalArts, Los Angeles, January 2001.


  • Einsperren, Aussperren, Aufsperren, Munich, October 2000.


    • plagiarist.org (1998 - present)

    Various net art projects made from raw materials "plagiarized" from the Internet. Satirical, frequently time-based pieces dealing with proprietorship, appropriation, corporate dominance, and the infinite recursiveness of the web. Plagiarist.org is exhibited primarily as a collection on the Internet and has been featured in Internet art collections including Yahoo, dmoz.org, Detritus.net, disinfo.com and Centrum Beeldende Kunst. Plagiarist.org projects have been reviewed in international online publications including The New York Times, Net Condition (ZKM), and The Independent (UK).
    http://plagiarist.org/

  • Plagiarist Manifesto and the 01.....org copy, featured at Connessioni Leggendarie, October-November 2005, Milan.


  • "Markwatcher" project featured at ArtMedia VIII, Paris, November/December 2002.


  • "Interview Yourself" project featured at Transmediale 2002, Berlin, February 2002.


  • Presentation at digital_is_not_analog.01, Bologna, Italy, May 2001.



  • Presentations at Tech-Nicks, London, June 2000.


  • Presentation at Active Link, Stuttgart, June 2000.


  • Enter Multimediale Festival, Prague/Internet, June 2000.


  • Disinformation Subversive Site Award, disinfo.com, May 2000.


    • The Multi-Cultural Recycler (1996/7)

    Web project that performs image processing and compositing on live images pulled from Web cameras around the world, in a tongue-in cheek commentary on cultural recycling and cyberspace.
    http://recycler.plagiarist.org

  • Intimidad Desvelada y Alter Ego, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, July-September, 2003.


  • ArtStream, Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, February 2003.


  • FotoFest 2002, Houston, March 2002.


  • Undo.Net a Fest@internet, Italy, March 2001.


  • CYBERART: Zones of Interaction, Internet/Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, November 1999 - January 2000.


  • Festival Creacion Audiovisual de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, November 1999.


  • Internet Art Today, Internet/Tokyo, February 1999.


  • BESPOKE.org, Internet, February 1999.


  • 1999 Webby Award Nominee, Best Arts Site, Internet, January 1999.


  • Digital Documentary: The Need to Know and the Urge to Show, pARTS Gallery, Minneapolis, December 1998 - January 1999.


  • Werkleitz Biennale,Werkleitz, Germany, September 1998.


  • New York Digital Salon, New York, November/December 1997.


  • Ciber@RT, III International Show on New Technologies Art & Communication, Valencia, Spain, November 1997.


  • Steirischer Herbst 1997/Zones of Disturbance, Vienna, September/October 1997.


  • Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 1997. Winner - Honorary Mention.


  • ISEA '97, Chicago, September 1997.


  • Recycled ISEA (Special ISEA Webcast Recycler) Chicago, September 1997.


  • SIGGRAPH '97 Electric Garden, Los Angeles, August 1997.


  • Dai Nippon Pavilion Web Art Exposition, Japan/Internet, November/December 1996. Winner - Achievement Award.


  • FIV International Festival of Video and Electronic Art, Buenos Aires, October 1996. Winner - Best WWW Project.


    • unbroken pieces (1996)

    Abstract computer animated video in the category of visual music; thematically centers on the ambiguity of perception, definition, and coherence.

  • Kinetica 4, Traveling Exhibition, presented by the iotaCenter. Began December 2002.


  • Encuentros Sobre Video, University of Salamanaca, Salamanaca, Spain, November 1998.


  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, November 1997.


  • ISEA '97, Chicago, September 1997.


  • L'etrange Film Festival, Paris, September 1997.


  • Toronto Festival of Short Films, Toronto, Canada, September 1997.


  • Festival International Du Cinema D'Animation, Annecy, France, May 1997.


  • Sinking Creek Film/Video Festival, Nashville, TN, November 1996.


  • SCREAM '96/Fifth Annual International Film Music Conference, Los Angeles, October 1996.


  • Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, September 1996.


  • Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Rio de Janeiro, August 1996.


    • ants under a mushroom (1996/1998)

    Interactive installation in which the participant "paints" with algorithmically selected moving and still non-fiction images. The piece addresses the role of both the imagemaker and the viewer in influencing the way an image is perceived.

  • Newmediaman Art Group Shows , Los Angeles area, Fall 1998 - Spring 1999.


  • SIGGRAPH '97 Electric Garden, Los Angeles, August 1997.


  • FIV International Festival of Video and Electronic Art, Buenos Aires, October 1996.


    • four (1995)

    Abstract computer animated video, playing against perfection and prettiness in 3D computer animation.

  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, November 1997.


  • FIVA Online Interactive Art Festival and CD-ROM. Winner - Public Award: Gallery. Montreal/Internet, November 1995.


  • SIGGRAPH '95 Computer Animation Festival. Los Angeles, August 1995.


    • 5pm (1995)

    Live action video with analog image processing. Images from a city at rush hour are blended together to create a linear/non-linear continuity which underscores the interrelationship among seemingly disparate elements.

  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, November 1997.


  • Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, September 1996.


  • FIVA Online Interactive Art Festival and CD-ROM. Winner - Public Award: Gallery. Montreal/Internet, November 1995.


    • I, Jacob Reed (1992)

    Live action 16 mm experimental narrative.

  • Artists' Television Access Short Attention Span Film/Video Festival. San Francisco, June 1993.


    • The Cage (1992)

    Live action 16 mm experimental narrative.

  • Clapham and Battersea Film Festival - "Best of the Fest" Screening, London, July 1992.


    • OTHER RECENT PROJECTS

  • Travesty Corporate PR InfoMixer, released as a gateway page to The Whitney Museum's ArtPort, as well as a piece of software distributed in association with The Yes Men SPIT. Fall 2002.


  • Clone-a-phrase. A guest-artist mini-game appearing within Action-tank's Metapet game. Spring 2002.


  • Turbulence.org's "Finding Time", Internet Performance, June 1999/January 2000.