Posted: November 18th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Artist #1
I’m so tired of juggling day jobs, writing grant proposals which won’t even pay me… I decided to stop complaining & just ask for what I really want - $700 billion for the arts…. because we’re too big to fail!
Wouldn’t it be swell to say - bar bill?? its on me, I’ve got the bucks because - I’m an artist!
Or
need a visit to the Dr.?? No problem of course I have health insurance because - I’m an artist!
I’m starting a new movement (I hope!). Please join in!
PS
The photo up there is of sound artist Jax Deluca of the wonderful Squeaky Wheel where the whole dang project was launched!
Posted: November 8th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Thank you Squeaky Wheel!
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Posted: October 14th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
The newly revamped Magic Box will make its debut at the Shift Festival in Basel, Switzerland October 22 - 25. Thanks to a grant from the Experimental Television Center I was able to remount the project with the carpentry wizardry of Paul DiPietro.
The box uses the 19th century illusionist trick Pepper’s Ghost and current technologies, Arduino & Isadora. The films that appear inside the box include performances by Luigi Coppola, Johanna Levy & Clara Palavesin with music by Michael Montes & Erik Friedlander.
Posted: October 13th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Settling in at my residency at Squeaky Wheel. Playing with tracking for a new Fantastic Object - perhaps a chandelier?
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Triangle Coalition at Cooper Union
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition was out in force for Cooper Union’s Great Nights in the Great Hall: Workers Rights on Sept. 17.
Posted: July 1st, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Just got word that I have been accepted for a NEA International Media Artist/Filmmaker Residency at Squeaky Wheel for this Fall. I’ll be creating more toys for Alchemy of Light.
Posted: June 1st, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Community Projects, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Just received word that we garnered an Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund grant for Magic Box, one of the Fantastic Objects for Alchemy of Light - yay!
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
I’ve been exploring possibilities for projecting on ephemeral surfaces. I’m interested in the possibilities of audiences being able to see through the screen to other viewers and to be able to pass through the screen itself. With the amazing Brian Kim we built this proto-type of a screen made of mist.
Thank you to Michael Dory for the photos.
Posted: January 29th, 2009 | Author: streetpictures | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
On Monday April 6th I’ll be on a great panel to discuss CHALK sponsored by the Gotham Center at CUNY.
The Role of Public History in NYC’s Cultural Life
Monday, April 6, 2009, 6:30 p.m. – 9th Floor
Co-sponsored with American Social History Project.
This forum will look at the role public history plays in the cultural life of New York City. Speakers include: Ruth Sergel, film maker and artist, creator of CHALK – an annual commemoration of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; Dave Herman, Fire Fighter and Founder, The City Reliquary; Ron Grele, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University; Brian Purnell, Historian, Fordham University and Research Director, Bronx African American History Project; and Madhulika Khandelwal, Director, Asian/American Center, Queens College.
