East of Fallon, Highway 50 Nevada
Installation, kinetic sculpture, live stream, 2003
The intent is to create what is essentially a simulated experience in the form of a contemplative, filmic moment, that of endlessly driving a car at night on a section of "America’s Loneliest Highway". This work exists both as a functional, physical installation of miniature modelling, video and kinetic sculpture and as a transmitted image via the internet. The video being created by the piece is being streamed, live, on the internet in real-time. The result being a looping path of image, motion and simulation created through an absurdly convoluted use of technology with the ultimate goal of sublime simplicity.
First TV Memory
Kinetic sculpture, video camera, TV, 2003
The work re-enacts my earliest recollection of television. In 1968, I remember getting up in the morning, I was 4 years of age. I wanted to watch "Captain Kangaroo" on CBS. I was very frustrated as all television progamming had been pre-empted by the image taken from a camera mounted on the back of the funeral train of Robert Kennedy.
Circle Drawing Surveillance System
Installation, paper, toy train, mini-video camera, projector, charcoal, 2001
A train locomotive
travels continuously in
a circle harnessed
with electro-mechanical
appendages, including
a drawing arm holding
black compressed
charcoal to paper. The
train rides on the first
rail, while the two inner
rails function,
respectively, to power
the mini-video camera
mounted on the train
while the other sends
the real-time video
signal from the camera
to the projector. Video
as memory of action in
the immediate
past—over engineered
uselessness for the watchful creation of drawings on paper.
Masturbatory Interactant
Computer controlled sculpture, projected video, 1996
Installation which explores machine automated erotic interaction. The intent of this piece is to create a machine masturbatory interactive experience in part inspired Marcel Duchamp's, "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even". The fan propelled, vinyl enclosed female party sex doll acts as the projection surface for time based imagery, the source of which is the second part of the installation, a kinetic sculpture consisting of an LCD video projector, a Macintosh CPU, a laser bar code scanner and a rotating "grinder" mechanism based on the "Chocolate Grinder" from Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass".
Touch, See, Believe
Installation, projected video, kinetic sculpture, 1994
This project involves the creation of an installation environment for the consideration of objects, images, and belief. The intent was to create using everyday analogue materials a live simulation in reaction to emergence of then new 3D modelled animated shapes and textures. Three white beach balls are suspended in the airflow of three 18" cooling fans. The fans are attached to each other and suspended from the walls of the space by cables. Upon the surfaces of the balls there are projected time-based, digitally processed images.
Tree
Tree limb, fans, air fresheners, video projection, 1993
A sculpture which simulates the action and scent of a tree combining natural and man made materials. Pine Tree air fresheners “there’s one in every car!”, blow continuously in the airflow of box fans attached to a tree limb that is precariously balanced on two steel rods, at the top of the piece is a mini video projector showing an image of an actual tree blowing in the wind.
Gulf War Memories
Digital images, KFC chicken bones, hardware, 1992
This work was inspired, in part, by moving to Tampa, Florida in 1991 for my first teaching job at the University of South Florida. Tampa was the home of then retired General "Stormin Norma" Schwarzkopf. A local video store actually had a "Gulf War" section. I checked out some of the videos and did some frame grabs and digital photo montages that appear in this piece. I had read that during the Gulf War fast food sales skyrocketed as people rushed home from work to watch the war on TV. As such, this piece featured prominently computer box fans blowing the smell of Kentucky Fried Chicken bones angled towards the viewer.
Kinesis
Installation, electromechanics, projection, interaction, 1990
Interactive environment for the consideration of human machine relations in an imaginary "office" space. Includes motorised desk chair, the "Virtual Reality" which blows new car air freshener smell in your face. "Breath", an air duct suspended in space blowing heated, stale air at passers by and the "Desk", featuring a simple interactive hypercard program projected upon the wall, activated by simply touch the mouse or keyboard. “Kinesis” was my MFA thesis exhibition through the CADRE Institute at San Jose State University.