Collaboration
Collaborative works with other artists. Titrating my Southern California perspectives on Global Culture with those of artists from Ukraine, Poland, Spain, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and beyond.
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love_london_la
In this collaboration, London-based, Polish artist Lena Janczak and I share an Instagram feed. Ethereal letters. A conversation. An exchange of ideas. Of cities. Of people. Of love.
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Letters 2 Sky.net
Collaboration with Ukrainian artist Irene Prokopets: What if the Terminator movies are actually documentaries? What if “Skynet” becomes sentient? How will it judge humankind? By all the hate speech online? In this project, Prokopets & I invite people to make short video Letters to Skynet explaining to our future AI overlords why humankind is a…
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Janus Drawing Portfolio
For “Pissed Off” at Tom of Finland Foundation, I made a series of automatic drawing diptychs with artists & guests at the event. For each drawing we meditated either on “Anger & Frustration” or “Joy & Human Fulfillment”.
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Shame Wrapped in Repulsion
Indiana artist Alyssa Arney and I were inspired/repulsed by the shameless audacity of Burger King’s fractal foodenstein mashup “Mac ‘n Cheetos”. We curated an exhibition focusing on shame, repulsion, and capitalist over-consumption run amok.
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Turning Pages
During her visit to Runaway University, London-based, Spanish artist Marta Troya worked with my students to create a performance work Turning Pages that reflected on the idea of texts in our media age. Before her departure, Troya and I decided to keep the conversation going through a series of online letters.
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Compass H2O
Collaborative project with Samy Kamkar, Natalia Fedner, Sharon Gong, David Wang, Joseph Kan, Susan Zhang & Vivia Liu. We explored the new space of Ephemeral Wayfinding and created a prototype for a new product Compass H2O, a wrist-worn, database-backed, device that leads to water in both developed and undeveloped regions.
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Automatic Drawing
Collaboration with Lee Tuyet Le. Partner Drawing, or Tandem Drawing, made not with our conscious minds, but with other brain areas: the motor cortex, the basal ganglia. Drawings enabled by our mammalian brain.
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Border Patrol
In 2005 Amy Knoles, Martin Herman, and I produced 2 one-hour episodes of Border Patrol, “a radio conversation promoting active migration across the borders of new music” for American Public Media‘s Classical Music Initiative.