Welcome To The Sandbox, is a video installation that looks at the “Happiness Island” sweater and its unsure slogan that proclaims “Happiness is…Land” and its implications for Grand Theft Auto IV, open world games, game consoles, and media formats along with the inclusion of playgrounds throughout fictional Liberty City. Continue reading
Approximately One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifteen Hours and Counting, uses myself as data set to investigate and attempt to concretize the everyday in-car experience of Los Angeles commutes and commuters. According to the 2010 City of Los Angeles Transportation Profile, … Continue reading
EULA for a _____, creates end-user license agreements (EULA) for everyday objects and services to illustrate the encroachment of legal agreements into every aspect of our existence and comment on social practices. In 2010, I was invited to stage the … Continue reading
The Neighborhood Network Watch (NNW) is a simulation of a possible next step for network-based government eavesdropping operations through a community volunteer group that monitored the network traffic of public and private WiFi access points for terrorist activity. This simulation … Continue reading
Black & Green (2006) is a video loop/software piece that memorializes those who have died from improvised explosive devices (IED) during the current Iraq War. The loop is primarily comprised of text that includes each name, rank, military branch, division/battalion/company, place … Continue reading
On March 17th, 2007, I participated in an anti-war protest in Los Angeles with a group of friends and students from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and the University of California Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) and artists based in Los … Continue reading
Death, Destruction & The Weather Coming Up Next, is a set of public interventions and an animated short that takes a look at the structure of the mass media’s coverage of war and death and recontextualizes it within American suburban … Continue reading
*nix Genealogy, is a performance by a Dell Mini 9 “hackintosh” laptop computer, that recites the genealogy of the operating system it is currently running, using language typical of Old Testament Biblical genealogies. It starts in 1969, with UNICS, from … Continue reading
In the popular game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas there is a gun shop chain named Ammunation. Within the game there are various radio commercials for the Ammunation store that are simultaneously humorous, ridiculous, scary, yet not removed enough from … Continue reading
On November 4th, I performed Jason Kunke’s performance script, Political Speech for a Hydra, as part of the Exchange Rate: 2008 performance exchange. The script is essentially a political speech that was primarily comprised of the voices of people who … Continue reading
This is not about random(), is a new and very small text piece done in processing for the Rhizome/OpenProcessing 200 Character Tiny Sketch challenge. Having seen too many works made in Processing that have relied on random functions for no … Continue reading
Since computer games are a socializing force both directly and indirectly, Dialogues in Command & Conquer Generals (2007), begins to deconstruct and forefront the ideology presented by the game, “Command & Conquer: Generals” (2003), in relation to another often seemingly benign socializing mechanism, … Continue reading