In early November, a water main break destroyed my studio. Among the lost equipment were all of my servers, which hosted most of my net projects: The Multi-Cultural Recycler, plagiarist.org, Cuejack, theBot, and several others. Some, like The Multi-Cultural Recycler, can not be restored, because they required specific software and hardware that’s no longer available. … Read more
Some stills from “untitled (at the park)” – site-specific PIGS performance with Curt Miller at the Convergence show at Cabrillo National Monument this weekend. Thanks Stefani Byrd for the pix! Video contributions by Collette Carroll, Nichole Speciale, and Cabrillo National Monument.
Curt Miller and I will be performing on Saturday in San Diego. It’s an audiovisual improvisation: site-specific video, my custom PIGS software, silent percussion generating visuals.. and Curt’s amazing clarinet and computer music! I hope you’ll join us! 7pm in the Auditorium! Exclamation Points! https://www.facebook.com/events/541704952650285/ http://www.shipinthewoods.com/convergence/
Here’s video from the debut of the “beta” version of PIGS (Percussive Image Gestural System). The beta voyage was “Rocket’s Red Glare: Things Exploding on YouTube,” an audiovisual improvisation with clarinetist/sound artist Curt Miller. Performed as part of the IDEAS series at Qualcomm Institute. Hopefully more news soon!
Some pix from The PIGS (Percussive Image Gestural System) debut this month as part of the IDEAS series at Qualcomm Institute. Curt Miller and I developed an improvisational audiovisual performance, “Rocket’s Red Glare,” based on the theme of “Things Exploding on YouTube.” I used PIGS to perform visuals, and Curt performed live clarinet, custom software, … Read more
Here’s some photos from CyberSpaceLand at the Body / Space / Time event last month at San Diego Art Institute. Thanks Eva De Leon for inviting me, and thanks Emily Corkery for shooting these delightful pix!
IDEAS performance: Rocket’s Red Glare Date: September 3rd, 2015 Time: 5pm-7pm Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego Host: Shahrokh Yadegari, Director, IDEAS First (beta!) performance introducing the work I’ve been developing for past couple years. As I’ve still got the training wheels on, the event will be part concert performance, part research/software demo. … Read more
I — I mean VJ Übergeek — will be performing CyberSpaceLand this Thursday at the UCSD UAG Gallery “Artistic Research” reception. Middle-aged girl geek Übergeek has some new antics, as the off-screen/on-screen story continues… Best of all, the fantastic Lev Kalman will be DJing! Performance starts @ 7:45
It’s nice to see the comedy / performance art relationship getting quite a bit of recognition lately. It made me think to add a new page to the site to bring together a few different humor-related character-based threads of my performance art work: from standup comedy to digital audiovisual performance. The page is called Standup Comedy … Read more
Since 2009 I’ve been operating a Facebook page about early 20th century artist/inventor/suffrage activist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt. Born in Beirut, and mainly raised in Philadelphia, Hallock-Greenewalt is mainly known for her work designing and performing color organs — as well as her art of colored light performance, which she called Nourathar. I recently visited the Historical … Read more