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 seen again, by anyone, in any form. Each work will exist only in the limited moments of perception, in the individual a ... Continue Reading
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 10 artists from the collection, sampled their statements about art, and broke them down into cards that participants ... Continue Reading
For the Umami Festival‘s Anarchy in the Kitchen webcast, I convened the Kitchen for Improvised Knowledge with conceptual chefs Shannon May and Lauren Bender. Together, we remixed cookbooks with critical texts to create delectable new concepts. It’s Julia Child meets Guy Debo ... Continue Reading
In this interactive performance lecture delivered at George Mason University, I taught a group of students to sample and remix source texts to answer the question “what is thought?” Continue Reading
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 ... Continue Reading
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 expl ... Continue Reading
Here they are, the basic methods of improvised object-oriented thought. Method 1 Select a source. Improvise through it. Record the results. Method 2 Collect some fragments. Improvise through them. Record the results. Method 3 Connect to a structure. Improvise through it. Reco ... Continue Reading
This is the score and notes from an improvisational performance I did with cellist Kate Porter at the Shattered Wig, Baltimore, 2/23/2007. “I Know Where We Are: An Interface in Three Movements” For this performance, I initially created as many “notes” as I could, as ... Continue Reading
These are the working notes for an interactive performance ritual to summon the spirit of Heraclitus, conducted in June of 2007. The ritual was developed by M. Magnus and myself, based on his text “Heraclitean Pride,” now available through Furniture Press Books. Created with fl ... Continue Reading
This is the “Score for Environmental Interactions”; an interactive performance piece I did for the Yockadot! Poetics Theatre Festival in Alexandria, VA in 2007 The participants were given the score and a sheet torn at random from a dictionary. We then toured the building, descr ... Continue Reading
