in 2007, i was commissioned to fabricate the Fang Quai, a yearly award to celebrate those who have made contributions to the CADRE Laboratory. My design is a modular sculptural piece manufactured by the Lego Corporation. DIY Fun is the name of the game! the award comes in a custom designed box with all the …
personal exchange: a social investment proposal is an interventionist performance that proposes a artist funding vehicle based off the dire need for organ donors. visitors schedule appointments for a consultation to explore if they would be willing to donate their organs/body to transplant in exchange for stock and liquid capital. the black market for transplants …
Karaoke Ice is a collaborative residency project originally built for the ISEA 2006/ZeroOne Festival in San Jose CA (August 2006). The project is a symbiosis of ice cream truck and karaoke bar. A theme park character, Remedios the Squirrel Cub, hands out ice pops and encourages the crowds to step up and sing. The song …
My work titled Fluoxetine is a soft sculpture representative of the bio-active chemical and is reminiscent of the plush toy transitional objects of childhood. Fluoxetine is an anti-depressant pharmaceutical. This chemical is popularly known as Prozac, the trademarked name by manufacturer Eli Lilly and Company. It is commonly prescribed for conditions related to depression and …
clepsydra is a looped video installation on time. the over-sized digital projection about falling water rubs the spectacular up against a concrete expression of the natures’ protocols {(gravity + surface tension) X air resistance = time}. or to co-opt Edouard le Roy words on Bergsonian duration: [this] “stream of phenomena flows in an irreversible direction …
This is the sixth version of a prototype particle detector I have built over a period of 2 years. I see Mark VI and its’ kindred are a continued metaphor on the themes of the nature of reality. Whereas painting is an extension of the illusory reality like the shadows in Plato’s Allegory of the …