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The Loverboy Project

This project is an extension and adaptation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled (Loverboy)”. In his stacks of limitless square sheets of pale blue paper, which visitors were encouraged to take away, Gonzalez-Torres developed a practice of public participation, open interpretation, and mobile adaptation of the work of art, and evolved the cool, intellectual stances of minimalism [...]

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Portrait of Kathryn Cornelius – 6/8/10

It’s been awhile since I’ve done a portrait (a live remix of an artist’s language), so I’m really excited by this new one, of Kathryn Cornelius, in conversation with Jeffry Cudlin at a Pink Line Project Salon Contra event. Kathryn is a fellow traveler on the emerging road of Art+Neuroscience, so the language I got [...]

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One Hour Photo

I’m incredibly excited about this experience I’ve created for the American University Museum, One Hour Photo. Read about it below, and submit an image by March 31st. One Hour Photo distills the photograph to the ultimate limited edition: 60 minutes. Photographic works will be projected for one hour each, after which they will never be [...]

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Art is _______ : Remixing Artist’s Words to Create New Definitions of Art

WE ARE SCIENCE! collaborated with the Pink Line Project to create an interactive experience for the Phillips Collection’s “This is not That” cafe. We took 12 artists from the collection, sampled their statements about art, and broke them down into cards that participants could use to remix their own statements, filling in the blank in [...]

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Ignite DC Talk – Backmatter

Some things I’ve been checking out while working on my presentation for Ignite DC. Crowdsourced music video for Choir of Young Believers’ “Action/Reaction.” from Booooooom. Into Infinity: open source audio/visual interpretations of infinity from DubLab. An amazing variety of styles. Girl Talk creates a mash-up from “Radio, Radio” by Elvis Costello

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Reenactment of the Discovery of the Scratch

Grand Wizard Theodore was said to have accidentally discovered the scratch when his mother yelled at him to stop playing records so loud. He put his hand directly on the record to stop it, heard the sound that resulted, and started playing around. Here’s a decent reenactment of that crucial moment. How can we “scratch” [...]

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Where the Wild Data Are

We know there is potentially useful data in an almost infinite number of situations. Data that may be fleeting and difficult to gather and interpret, but interesting despite, or because of, this difficulty. In considering data collection, we propose a “shoot first, discover questions later” approach, where “shoot” represents a camera, a basic recording device [...]

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From Seed – Sessions 003 and 004

Two more sessions of remixing Seed magazine to discover new potential truths and avenues for exploration. Session 003 – Yet a common division of linkages will sort data into their own tones and juices… Session 004 – Sometimes the only way to understand the light / dark core at the heart of deciphering is to [...]

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From Seed – Sessions 001 and 002

From Seed is a new object-oriented thought project in which I conduct quick, improvised remixes of Seed magazine, in order to discover new meanings and possible directions for future knowledge. Noticing what emerges from seed, we enter strange, uncharted fields and domains for further exploration and refinition. Session 001 – The big idea is a [...]

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Performing at the Phillips Collection on Thursday

Please join me this Thursday as I channel the spirit of Denis Diderot, the inventor of the Encyclopedia, to present a new, fluid, organic structure for creating, capturing and conveying knowledge. As part of the Phillip’s Collection THIS IS NOT THAT CAFÉ interactive group performance, A Play, I will be playing the role of Taxonomer, [...]

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