Newsgator/ video 3:25 // satire
A Day in the life of a Corp Comm worker: After RSS!
Bot / stop-animation 2:58 // video short
A day-in-the-life of your average robot.
Freegan Kitchen / video 19:50 min // mockumentary
As featured in the New York Times, this viral video, under the guise of a cooking show, is an introduction to finding and creating delicious, healthy and quite safe meals, using ingredients found by dumpster diving behind grocery stores. A "freegan" is a person who chooses to eat food thrown away by stores and restaurants to avoid waste and limit their impact on the environment.
Make Faire aerial cam / 1:14 / real-time time-lapse
A portable camera tower allows aerialcapture of crowd movements at etech's Make Fest. The crowd was able to see a real-time time-lapse of their own activity at 10x speed programmed using Max/MSP/Jitter software.
My Dreams in Colour / video 11:11 min // experimental narrative
An intertsecting trio of shorts about the psychology of colors in dreams...
Astronauta / 16mm film 5:38 min // science fiction intervention
This intervention was filmed/staged at the San Diego/Tijuana border (which is the busiest border crossing in the world and where filming in not permitted). A Mexican national "attempts" a space walk at the border. As far as we know, this type of intervention has never been done before, especially at this physically charged location.
Installation & Environmental Art:
Laser Graffiti
Laser Graffiti uses open source software (courtesy of the heros at Graffiti Research Lab) and a setup consisting of a projector, video camera and 5mw laser, the software tracks the laser which the projector can see via the video camera to then “draws/tags/paints” on building in a non-destructive manner. The result is good clean fun that doesn’t leave a mess and is a great way to activate/lite up a public space. The software emulates different brushes and even does a realistic job creating drips of paint as you tag/bomb/piece something up.
EPIPHYTE / bicycle powered interactive video installation EPIPHYTE (borrowed from a botanical term) is a bi-pedal powered, interactive video installation that seeks to explore notions of sustainability and infosthetics by revealing the hidden history of products.
Epiphyte was at the ATLAS Institute for Art, Media and Performance at CU Boulder during the month of April and at the Object+Thought gallery, 3559 Larimer Street, downtown Denver for the month of May.
CUBO / interactive sound sculpture
CUBO (Cube) – is an interactive sound sculpture comprised of reclaimed materials and exploring notions of social architecture via a site-specific, locative sound track. Its literally a giant cube with a set a speakers and motion sensors on each of its 5 sides. CUBO’s outside layer is made from live, edible micro-greens. The interior houses a multi-channel, surround sound, speaker system. The sculpture is motion activated: using Max/MSP/Jitter software.
CUBO has been exhibited in Tijuana- Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles and now Boulder on its evolving journey. After a short stint at BMoCA, CUBO is now on display at Object+Thought Gallery, 3559 Larimer Street, Downtown Denver until the end of May.
Special thanks to TheSilence.org for providing 1600+ samples of the Boulder area for the CUBO project.
Exchange/Alteration: on-site clothing alterations to upcycle your old clothes E/A invites participants to have their clothing altered on the spot from the bits-and-pieces of other participants’ clothes and from fabrics collected beforehand. New life can be cut, stitched and sewn into any piece of forgotten clothing found in the back of the closet: shirts, pants, skirts, jackets, hats, even the tee shirt off one’s back (participants are lent pre-altered clothes to wear while waiting for their alteration) – resulting in a cut-&-paste mélange.
Exchange/Alteration has exhibited in: Tijuana, Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and now here in Boulder at BMoCa, the Farmer's Market and CU's ATLAS.
The Labyrinth / massive maze eco-sculpture The Labyrinth is 2200sq foot interactive eco-sculpture designed to study and engage the dynamics of real-world (embodied) social behavior. The maze like sculpture is situated amid the eucalyptus groves of UCSD, with no ceilings and translucent 8ft walls, surveillence cameras and social-analytics software (RealTimeLapse) constantly record Time-Lapse Videos of the patterns of social interactions that emerge within this reconfigurable, constantly evolving architectural space. The Labyrinth was produced at the Social Movement Laboratory and designed and engineered by artists Marko Manriquez, Shawn Yourd, and Marjory Loh. Original concept by Marko Manriquez.
