THE PROBLEM OF MEMORY Solo show at Harvestworks. April 2015

A show on memories as objects. When participants talk into one of the provided microphones,  the visuals are impacted — and this impact is recorded and looped in the next visual rotation— creating a permanent mark. Participants can listen using earphones to the various tracks created

Harvestworks solo show

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SANCTUARY CITY

 Residency at Governors Island. Autumn 2017

Five wall size paintings of refugee land with audio activated projected arabic text on the floor and through the windows. The Arabic is a poem on traveling across the Mediterranean sea, written by an anonymous Syrian refugee. The final show included a live performance with vocal artist Ami Yamasaki

“Sanctuary” October 2017, performance

Canada 2017: 17 X 14, Acrylic and charcoal on paper

wall-sized landscape 1 Governors island Oct 2017 7ft x 3 ft

Ami Yamasaki performs at the closing of the show

Ami Yamasaki performs at the closing of the show

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eyes of models, Pier 59 Studios, October 2015

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I’M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT, part two

5-month installation at Silent Barn, August 2015-January 2016

Braille lights are projected when you walk up the stairs. The staircase is lined with canvasses of sewed braille that say” I am not telling you what to do but you have to do” which is a line from a narration by someone I met in Nicaragua. As you walk up the stairs, you activate the entire narrative, which discusses the role of American imperialism as creator of Central American poverty.

light braille

” I am not telling you what to do but you have to do”. Hand sewn canvass of this narration.

Silent barn, three month projection installation,  2015: audio generated braille machine. Says ““I’m not telling you what to do, but you have to do it.” 

   

Braille canvass

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IMPROVISAION/ ETHNOGRAPHY

1. January 2018 Interactive visuals with pianist Hitomi Honda at the New York University PhD Waverly Labs for Music and Computing for AV showcase. Un-rehearsed improvisation with only the theme of allowing for mistakes (as in the title) and the non-stop mistakes of humanity. To explore the theme of ethnography, I show hand made drawings and Arabic refugee poetry,  as well as a video of a starling murmuration. 

 2. Cornelias Street CafeAudio Activated projection using APE to Hitomi Honda’s piano; “Sound Traffic” 2018 show at Cornelia Street Cafe

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my original APE software

Photos of Events using APE

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2013, Mountain video projected on trees Ulster County, NY with Share

2013, Mountain video projected on trees Ulster County, NY with Share

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Ear to Earth festival, 2014https://vimeo.com/46558865

Coney Island Mandala-site specific, Coney Island amphitheater 2011 

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Tracked Pastures

Lou Rossi mix 2

Pan Am music video 

“Cloak”

 more videos 

 

“Transformer lady”2011  shown at Good bye Blue Monday

 friend of the night (shown at The Dome at PS1/MoMA) 

Bird

Bright Air, 2010 music by David McChesney

APE at old can factory 2011

Many of my projection are made using my original software “APE” ( co-created with programmer Thomas Martinez)

LAUDS, Lea Bertucci & Megan Moncrief at the “Ab Uno Pluribus” Visuals by Ursula Scherrer & Miah Artola

audio activated drawings “deerland” deers generated with traffic sounds

 

“Bird and Wolf”

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