Shows

What the Robot Saw

• Gaze in the Age of Technology, Museum 54, New York, June 2023.
• Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, May 2022. Berlin, August 2022.
• The Pandemic Twitch, Cypress College, Cypress, CA. March-May 2022.
• Currents New Media, Santa Fe (online). June 2021.
• Online exhibition at gallery@calit2, UCSD, San Diego. January-March 2021.
• Appearances, online show at Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam. September – October 2020.
• NewMediaFest2020, 365 Days Diary. Torrance Art Museum / Online. (Touring exhibition of Corona! Shutdown?)
• xCoAx 2020 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. Graz, Austria (Online). July 2020.
• Corona! Shutdown? NewMediaFest 2020. Online, May 2020.
• Learning Machines. Electromuseum, Moscow. December 2019 – February 2020 (“What the Robot Saw” Preview Edition.)

PIGS: Percussive Image Gestural System

• The Urgency of Reality in a Hyper-Connected Age. “June 8th, 2018 (take 2)”, a PIGS improvisation / short film with Curt Miller. Online film festival, ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, December 2018.
• “International Conference on Live Interfaces,” performance with Curt Miller. Porto, Portugal, June 2018.
• “Postcards from the Disorient”, performance with Arshia Haq. “Summer Happenings at the Broad.” Broad Museum, Los Angeles,
  August 2017.
• “Now Hear This,” recorded visuals for Arshia Haq‘s set at Montalvo Arts Center, July 2017.
• “It’s Your Party,” collaborative performance organized by Nancy Buchanan. With Stephanie Allespach, Arshia Haq, and Marjan Vayghan, The Art of Performance in Irvine, University of California Irvine, November 2016
• Collaboration with Curt Miller. Performed at International Conference on Live Coding 2016, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, October 2016.
• Collaboration with Curt Miller. Performed at NIME 2016, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Brisbane, July 2016.
• “untitled (at the park),” site-specific collaboration with Curt Miller. Performed at Convergence, curated by A Ship in the Woods. Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, November 2015
• “Rocket’s Red Glare,” a collaboration with Curt Miller. Performed at IDEAS, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, September 2015

Discotrope: The Secret Nightlife of Solar Cells

• Cal-IT2 Gallery, Cal-IT2, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, March 2012
• Hollywood Fringe opening party, Los Angeles, June 2012
• HM157, Los Angeles, June 2012
• Zero1 Biennial, San Jose, September 2012
• ISEA 2012, Albuquerque, September 2012

SVEN (Surveillance Video Entertainment Network)

• Filmatic Festival, UC San Diego, April 2014. Another brief post-retirement emergence, back on SVEN’s home turf.
• Eindhoven, Netherlands, 12 November 2010 – 16 January 2011. SVEN came out of retirement for a special installation as part of the Funware exhibition at MU
• 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.

CyberSpaceLand

• Body / Space / Time San Diego Art Institute, August 2015.
• Artistic Research: Visual Arts Facutly Exhibition 2015, University Art Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, May 2015.
• Experimental Drawing Studio, UCSD, San Diego, June 2013.
• Funware opening at MU Gallery, Eindhoven, NL, November 2010
• COLAB, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. March 2010
• Brokenbeat, Club Kadan, San Diego, January 2010
• Dead is the New Rich album release party. Kava Lounge, San Diego, July 25, 2009.
• Brokenbeat, Club Kadan, San Diego, March 2009
• Pikslaverk Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland, November 2008
• Special “Mobile Office” Street Performance! In conjunction with No Time to Lose exhibition, Aberdeen, Scotland, May 2008
• 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.

B0timati0n shows (CyberSpaceLand’s predecessor):

• 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.

Scream

• Tools of Distorted Creativity Exhibition, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, January 2013.
• Transmedios Exposición de Arte Multimedia at Le Drugstore, Tijuana, May 2008.
• RADICAL SOFTWARE: Piemonte Share Festival 2006 – Limitless.Torino, Italy, March 2006.
• FILE 2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 2005.
• Code – an online exhibit of open-source net-based code art hosted by Year01. “Olly/Open Scream” was commissioned and exhibited. July 2005.
• “Desktop Opus 1.0” (film produced with Scream). Bitfilm Festival, Hamburg, November 2005.

theBot (one infesting the horse)

• 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.

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-Cutural Recycler

• NETescopio, project of  Meiac (Museum of Contemporary Art ), Badajoz, Spain, November 2009
• 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 genre of “visual music.”

• Distant Relations, Go|c|art Gallery, Visby, Sweden, June 2015.
• Carousel Microcinema, San Diego, January 2010.
• 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.

four (1995)

Abstract computer animated video. Playing against trends toward perfection and slickness in 3D computer animation, this one is kind of funky.

• 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 linear and non-linear continuities.

• 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.

netsong (collaboration with Peter Traub)

• 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,Osnabrück, Germany, April 2001.
• CADE Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001.
• Net.congestion, Amsterdam/Internet, October 2000.

The Typewriter, Extreme Whitespace, etc.

• 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 & organizer of  Everybody VJ, a Very Large Group Performance of fifteen people doing strange things with VJ’ing)
• Read_me 2.3, Helsinki, June 2003 – (extreme whitespace live performance).

With Toplap.org

• Club Transmediale, Berlin, February 2005.
• Runme-Dorkbot City Camp, Aarhus, August 2004.

CueJack

• Open Source Art Hack, New Museum, New York, 2002.
• Female Takeover at Ars Electronica, September, 2001.

Runme.org

• Open Line Show, Maribor, Slovenia, May 2005.
• Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention, September 2004.

Deprogramming.us

• Webcra.sh street demonstration and art installation, Dordrecht, Netherlands, May 2008.
• Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania, September 2003.

netaesthesia (2000 – 2001)

Net art installation/performance. Text from the internet, speech synthesized and processed as music, fed into kitsch, psychedelic, abstract-animated graphics. Suitable for raves (well, maybe not quite…) A tongue-in-cheek look at the continuing arms race in net culture and technology.

• 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.

ants under a mushroom (1996/1998)

Interactive installation in which participants “paint” with algorithmically selected moving and still non-fiction images.

• 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.

Everything else…

• a2p v1/The Wrong 2019. Curated by by Casey Reas, Addie Wagenknecht, Rick Silva, and exonemo. Fall 2019.
• Googling Californias (Half Truths for People on the Go) (2013).
  Created for w-e-s-t-e-r-n-d-i-g-i-t-a-l.com, curated by Rick Silva. Part of The Wrong Biennale.
• Travesty Corporate PR InfoMixer, commissioned as a gateway page to The Whitney Museum’s ArtPort.  Also released as a piece of software distributed in association with The Yes Men. 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.