2016
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STILL MOVING Exhibition at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago July 8 - September 12
• Infinite Jest Single Channel in Jewel Box
• The General in his Labyrinth Triptych
• Where have you Gone, Joe DiMaggio? Single Channel, framed
WORK-IN-PROGRESS: Interactive public art exhibition funded by The Knight Foundation
INSTALLATION of Shockwaves at Whitebox Gallery, "Everything is a Remix", Munich, Germany, July 2 - August 7
ANIMATED GIF's for Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show for Turner Broadcasting, on-going
PASTA LA PIZZA, BABY at Collider 7: Voxel, University of Hawaii, Manoa, August 22, 2016 - September 16, 2016
2015
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CURRENT PROJECT: THE OPTICS OF MEMORY
A comprehensive exhibition that explores the formation of memory and collective consciousness in the 21st century. Prospectus available here
TEDx TALK: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MEME
A multimedia visualization of my work and its development
DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION
An hour-long live performance with Thomas Maos – electric guitar, electronics and Fried Dähn, electronics and laptop,
B-Seite Festival, Mannheim, Germany
TRANSFORMER STATION
Shockwaves looping media installation
PROSERPINE (and other perpetual loops) installation at DC Tower 1, Vienna, Austria
2014
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THE PERPETUAL SERIES
Movement, Form and Meaning
Installations at Art Miami, Donau City Tower, Vienna, MOCA Cleveland, unpainted Media Art Fair, Munich and Deptford Cinema, London
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUMMER
45 minute looping media art installation created for The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Summer Solstice celebration
INTERSECTION
6:50 looping media, multiple venues on tour in Poland
SHOCKWAVES
USA / France / Germany
An 80 minute media loop, funded by 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship
2013
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INFINITE JEST, a Cinematic Assemblage
Premiere, December, 2013, Art Week Miami
WOMAN IN WHITE, POINT BREAKS, (and other perpetual loops)
Premiere, December, 2013, Art Week Miami
2011
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SAIGAI
USA / Macao
Role: Director
An elegy for those lost as a result of the Fukushima catastrophe with dancer Chan U Hong
SOUNDBOARD
USA / France
Soundboard investigates the potential for meaning that adheres in increments of physical movement: the marks it leaves through the materials of motion and sound.
PREMIERE: American Dance Festival, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
WORKS ON PAPER
A collection of over 60 mono-prints and archival digital prints created 2011-2015
2010
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AARDVARK
80 minutes
USA / Argentina
Role: Executive Producer
Aardvark, an experimental feature film directed by Kitao Sakurai. Opening film of the “Filmmakers of the Present Competition” and winner of “Special Mention” at the 2010 Locarno Film Festival at its world premiere
THE DROWNING
12-minute looping media piece. 3 channels of video, 6 channels of audio. With dancer Chan U Hong. EMPAC Dance Movies Commission 2009-2010. The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Premiere: EMPAC, October 2
PANOPTICAL DELUSIONS
12 minute, two-channel video art looping installation commissioned by Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, September 24-26
ORBITAL DEBRIS
Live 4-channel videoart performance, commissioned by the Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio July 11
QUADRASCOPE
21-minute, single-channel video art.
A work commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra for performance with Catch and Release by Esa-Pekka Salonen, formerly artistic director of Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The Conducted by Tito Muñoz,
Premiered at FusionFest 2010 at the Cleveland Playhouse. April 22-25 and performed with Nordnorsk Opera og Symfoniorkester (Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra), Norway And C'mon (Chamber Music Old & New) Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
SLEEPWALKERS
A collection of prints and looping media art at Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, May 14-June5 and at the Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Show, September 3 - October 29
A selected number of prints were reproduced in “Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art with Photoshop” by Scott Ligon, Random House, Watson-Guptill, March 2010
Vision: A Re-Envisioning
Investigation of Creative Approaches and Methods for Correction of Vision from Optic Nerve Damage. With Annellen M. Simpkins, PhD and C. Alexander Simpkins, PhD, Amanda Almon, C.M.I. An-going study that blends science with art, empirical observation with artistic expression.
BREAKDOWN THE REMIX
VIMEO REMIX AWARD WINNER 2010
10 minutes single channel. Premiere: October 8, 2010 SVA Visual Arts Theater
“Breakdown” parodies the misuse of mass media in such historical periods as America”s McCarthy era, when corrupt powers manipulated public opinion to build support for political, military and economic excesses.
2009
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BREAKDOWN: A SAMPLE-BASED OPERA
18 Minutes single channel with audio. Commissioning Institution: American Composers Orchestra, New York
Premiere: Carnegie Hall, George Manahan, Conductor
2002 – 2008
SELECTIONS (MEDIA ART)
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CXXV
5 minutes, single-channel. Commissioned by the Cleveland Institute of Art to commemorate its 125th anniversary. 2007
CHROMA FESTIVAL DE ARTE AUDIOVISUAL
Featured artist, Guadalajara, Mexico. 2007
THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC, SOUND AND VISUAL ART
Featured artist, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2007
HAIR THE MUSICAL
30 minute, single-channel videoart. Commissioned by Kent State University, The School of Theatre and Dance and presented by the Roe Green Visiting Director Series, 2007
UGOKU 動
60 minutes. Single-channel, experimental film/animation hybrid, found footage, live performance. Premiere: Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan Sept 10 - 17 Screenings at SIGGRAPH 2007 and as part of the Visual Music Marathon, created by Northeastern University
KASUMI VS DJ SPOOKY: Subliminal Strings
Live 60 3-channel video art performance with DJ Spooky: sampler, spoken word, laptop, and Daniel Bernard Roumain: violin and effects
Commissioned by The Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007
HIPHOP APOTHEOSIS
Live 60-minute, 3-channel video art performance incorporating graffitti art, breakdance, music and poetry. Commissioned by The Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
15 minutes, single-channel video art. Commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra and WVIZ/PBS, 2007
FREE SPEECH ZONE (REDUX)
14 minutes, found-footage montage.
Cited in “The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: Films from the Fringes of Cinema” Michael Wiese Productions (November 15, 2004) by Phil Hall
First Prize, Best Experimental Film, 2007 Sapporo International Short Film Festival
2004
KASUMI VS MODESELEKTOR
Live single-channel VJ performance with the Berlin electronic duo, sponsor: Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2006
BEATS OF BASQUIAT
90 minutes, single-channel live performance with Grandmaster Flash. Sponsored and commissioned by Starbucks. Live videoart and soundart improvisation.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas. 2006
ROADTRIP THE TOUR
Live single-channel video art performance tour with Nikola Lutz (Sampler, Laptop, Saxophone). Stuttgart, Tübingen, Zurich, Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2005
THE FRENCH WRITING DESK
7-minute, stereoscopic, single-channel film. Commissioned by: The Cleveland Museum of Art
August, 2005
THE GRUVELAB
3-D virtual reality installation in NASA Glenn’s Reconfigurable User-interface & Virtual Reality Exploration (GRUVE) Lab, Cleveland, Ohio, 2004
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
Single-channel film/video art and live performance for Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat, Xian Zhang conducting, Pinchas Zuckerman, violinist, F. Murray Abraham, Marian Seldes and Tim Blake Nelson, narration. With designer Doug Fitch, designer/cinematographer Kitao Sakurai and ballerina, Valerie Madonia.
Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, New York. 2005
DIDO AND AENEAS
30 minute, single-channel video art with multiple, interchangeable feeds.
Commissioned by The International Opera Project: A Collaboration of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, and Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004
KINETIC SHADOWS
14 minutes , 3-channel videoart with 6 dancers. Performed simultaneously at University of Southern California and Case Western Reserve University using Internet2 technologies, 2002
_______________________________________________________
STILL MOVING Exhibition at Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago July 8 - September 12
• Infinite Jest Single Channel in Jewel Box
• The General in his Labyrinth Triptych
• Where have you Gone, Joe DiMaggio? Single Channel, framed
WORK-IN-PROGRESS: Interactive public art exhibition funded by The Knight Foundation
INSTALLATION of Shockwaves at Whitebox Gallery, "Everything is a Remix", Munich, Germany, July 2 - August 7
ANIMATED GIF's for Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show for Turner Broadcasting, on-going
PASTA LA PIZZA, BABY at Collider 7: Voxel, University of Hawaii, Manoa, August 22, 2016 - September 16, 2016
2015
_______________________________________________________
CURRENT PROJECT: THE OPTICS OF MEMORY
A comprehensive exhibition that explores the formation of memory and collective consciousness in the 21st century. Prospectus available here
TEDx TALK: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MEME
A multimedia visualization of my work and its development
DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION
An hour-long live performance with Thomas Maos – electric guitar, electronics and Fried Dähn, electronics and laptop,
B-Seite Festival, Mannheim, Germany
TRANSFORMER STATION
Shockwaves looping media installation
PROSERPINE (and other perpetual loops) installation at DC Tower 1, Vienna, Austria
2014
_______________________________________________________
THE PERPETUAL SERIES
Movement, Form and Meaning
Installations at Art Miami, Donau City Tower, Vienna, MOCA Cleveland, unpainted Media Art Fair, Munich and Deptford Cinema, London
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUMMER
45 minute looping media art installation created for The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Summer Solstice celebration
INTERSECTION
6:50 looping media, multiple venues on tour in Poland
SHOCKWAVES
USA / France / Germany
An 80 minute media loop, funded by 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship
2013
_______________________________________________________
INFINITE JEST, a Cinematic Assemblage
Premiere, December, 2013, Art Week Miami
WOMAN IN WHITE, POINT BREAKS, (and other perpetual loops)
Premiere, December, 2013, Art Week Miami
2011
_______________________________________________________
SAIGAI
USA / Macao
Role: Director
An elegy for those lost as a result of the Fukushima catastrophe with dancer Chan U Hong
SOUNDBOARD
USA / France
Soundboard investigates the potential for meaning that adheres in increments of physical movement: the marks it leaves through the materials of motion and sound.
PREMIERE: American Dance Festival, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
WORKS ON PAPER
A collection of over 60 mono-prints and archival digital prints created 2011-2015
2010
_______________________________________________________
AARDVARK
80 minutes
USA / Argentina
Role: Executive Producer
Aardvark, an experimental feature film directed by Kitao Sakurai. Opening film of the “Filmmakers of the Present Competition” and winner of “Special Mention” at the 2010 Locarno Film Festival at its world premiere
THE DROWNING
12-minute looping media piece. 3 channels of video, 6 channels of audio. With dancer Chan U Hong. EMPAC Dance Movies Commission 2009-2010. The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Premiere: EMPAC, October 2
PANOPTICAL DELUSIONS
12 minute, two-channel video art looping installation commissioned by Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, September 24-26
ORBITAL DEBRIS
Live 4-channel videoart performance, commissioned by the Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio July 11
QUADRASCOPE
21-minute, single-channel video art.
A work commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra for performance with Catch and Release by Esa-Pekka Salonen, formerly artistic director of Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The Conducted by Tito Muñoz,
Premiered at FusionFest 2010 at the Cleveland Playhouse. April 22-25 and performed with Nordnorsk Opera og Symfoniorkester (Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra), Norway And C'mon (Chamber Music Old & New) Festival, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
SLEEPWALKERS
A collection of prints and looping media art at Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, May 14-June5 and at the Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Show, September 3 - October 29
A selected number of prints were reproduced in “Digital Art Revolution: Creating Fine Art with Photoshop” by Scott Ligon, Random House, Watson-Guptill, March 2010
Vision: A Re-Envisioning
Investigation of Creative Approaches and Methods for Correction of Vision from Optic Nerve Damage. With Annellen M. Simpkins, PhD and C. Alexander Simpkins, PhD, Amanda Almon, C.M.I. An-going study that blends science with art, empirical observation with artistic expression.
BREAKDOWN THE REMIX
VIMEO REMIX AWARD WINNER 2010
10 minutes single channel. Premiere: October 8, 2010 SVA Visual Arts Theater
“Breakdown” parodies the misuse of mass media in such historical periods as America”s McCarthy era, when corrupt powers manipulated public opinion to build support for political, military and economic excesses.
2009
_______________________________________________________
BREAKDOWN: A SAMPLE-BASED OPERA
18 Minutes single channel with audio. Commissioning Institution: American Composers Orchestra, New York
Premiere: Carnegie Hall, George Manahan, Conductor
2002 – 2008
SELECTIONS (MEDIA ART)
_______________________________________________________
CXXV
5 minutes, single-channel. Commissioned by the Cleveland Institute of Art to commemorate its 125th anniversary. 2007
CHROMA FESTIVAL DE ARTE AUDIOVISUAL
Featured artist, Guadalajara, Mexico. 2007
THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC, SOUND AND VISUAL ART
Featured artist, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2007
HAIR THE MUSICAL
30 minute, single-channel videoart. Commissioned by Kent State University, The School of Theatre and Dance and presented by the Roe Green Visiting Director Series, 2007
UGOKU 動
60 minutes. Single-channel, experimental film/animation hybrid, found footage, live performance. Premiere: Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan Sept 10 - 17 Screenings at SIGGRAPH 2007 and as part of the Visual Music Marathon, created by Northeastern University
KASUMI VS DJ SPOOKY: Subliminal Strings
Live 60 3-channel video art performance with DJ Spooky: sampler, spoken word, laptop, and Daniel Bernard Roumain: violin and effects
Commissioned by The Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007
HIPHOP APOTHEOSIS
Live 60-minute, 3-channel video art performance incorporating graffitti art, breakdance, music and poetry. Commissioned by The Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
15 minutes, single-channel video art. Commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra and WVIZ/PBS, 2007
FREE SPEECH ZONE (REDUX)
14 minutes, found-footage montage.
Cited in “The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies: Films from the Fringes of Cinema” Michael Wiese Productions (November 15, 2004) by Phil Hall
First Prize, Best Experimental Film, 2007 Sapporo International Short Film Festival
2004
KASUMI VS MODESELEKTOR
Live single-channel VJ performance with the Berlin electronic duo, sponsor: Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, 2006
BEATS OF BASQUIAT
90 minutes, single-channel live performance with Grandmaster Flash. Sponsored and commissioned by Starbucks. Live videoart and soundart improvisation.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas. 2006
ROADTRIP THE TOUR
Live single-channel video art performance tour with Nikola Lutz (Sampler, Laptop, Saxophone). Stuttgart, Tübingen, Zurich, Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2005
THE FRENCH WRITING DESK
7-minute, stereoscopic, single-channel film. Commissioned by: The Cleveland Museum of Art
August, 2005
THE GRUVELAB
3-D virtual reality installation in NASA Glenn’s Reconfigurable User-interface & Virtual Reality Exploration (GRUVE) Lab, Cleveland, Ohio, 2004
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
Single-channel film/video art and live performance for Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat, Xian Zhang conducting, Pinchas Zuckerman, violinist, F. Murray Abraham, Marian Seldes and Tim Blake Nelson, narration. With designer Doug Fitch, designer/cinematographer Kitao Sakurai and ballerina, Valerie Madonia.
Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, New York. 2005
DIDO AND AENEAS
30 minute, single-channel video art with multiple, interchangeable feeds.
Commissioned by The International Opera Project: A Collaboration of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Music & Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral, and Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004
KINETIC SHADOWS
14 minutes , 3-channel videoart with 6 dancers. Performed simultaneously at University of Southern California and Case Western Reserve University using Internet2 technologies, 2002