TV – It Gets the Job Done Right
Autonomous Video Installation 2004
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SAIC MFA Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL 2004
This piece manifests the attraction/ repulsion relationship I have with TV. It provides a hyper-stimulating barrage of fast-paced images and sounds, yet frustrates attempts to actually ‘watch’ it in a conventional sense.
Created as the culmination of my MFA in Art & Technology, this electronic installation is run by a MAX/MSP/Jitter patch that both outputs video samples and talks to a PIC microcontroller. The PIC is programmed in C with my rhythmic pattern algorithms and controls custom video switching electronics.
Duet For Alto & Tenor Televisions
Multimedia Performance with Electronic Instrument 2003
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SuperSonicScreen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI 2004
The Pale Student of Unhallowed Arts, Acme Artworks, Chicago, IL 2004
Fall Time Arts Night, SAIC Gallery 2, Chicago, IL 2003
The analog synth-inspired instrument consists of a custom hardware controller interface containing a usb joystick control board wired to a variety of knobs and button banks, as well as a pair of mini lcd screens and digital-analog video scan converters. The interface is connected to a Max/MSP/Jitter software application I built, which contains video and audio sampling, triggering, and effects modules.
Watch Video Documentation
Britton Bertran did an interview with me about this project for the now-defunct Panel House art criticism website.
Funk Improvisation For One Performer and Archival Dancers
Music/Video Performance 2002
Programmed in Max/MSP/Jitter, this piece is conceived as a dialogue between myself as musical performer and the dancing figures contained in the video material. The visual qualities of the video playback are controlled by the sounds generated by my bass, and my playing is in turn influenced by the randomly-generated combinations of video clips, video filters, and audio loops.














