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EVENTS
Here are listed a selection of public events I have taken part in, such as exhibitions, festivals, conferences, artist's talks, and collaborations initiated by other artists. Although exhibitions are not the focus of my practice — which has become largely oriented towards writing, performance, and vituality — my work has been exhibited internationally in art galleries, museums, and festivals. My curatorial work is listed under 'games'.
100/10I took part in this series of curated research exhibitions at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in March 2011. Information on the project I did with writer Ruth Coppens can be found here and here, and also here and here. A limited edition of the show catalog is available from the ICI here.
"OSCENE 2010" Feb. 20-May 16, 2010 I took part in this survey exhibition with a new performance-installation work entitled Hangmen Also Die. On the opening and closing days of the exhibition, there were live performances in conjunction with the installation.
"WOW Emergent Media Phenomenon" June 14-October 4, 2009 An exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum about the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft. The show included both artists who work for the game's producer, Blizzard Entertainment, and artists who have created work addressing how the game reflects our culture, including Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Eddo Stern, and Alexander Galloway. On Sept. 13, I gave an artist's talk at the museum about my project for the show. Many thanks to videographer Lev Anderson for doing such a great job with the video of this talk.
Salvation May 20 and Sept. 9, 2009 I took part as an online performer and graffiti artist in this cyberformance work by Marlena Corcoran that was inspired in part by the emergency landing of a jetliner in the Hudson River in January 2009. The May performance (screen cap at far left) was sponsored by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. The September performance (screen cap at left) was part of the UpStage 090909 festival of online performance; it was viewable both by web broswer and at various venues, including Norsk Telemuseum (Oslo), Eclectic Tech Carnival (Istanbul), Muffatwerk Cafe (Munich); and MAD art center (Eindhoven, Netherlands). Both performances took place on UpStage in the "Salvation" cyberstage.
"Institute: Under Hand" Feb. 27-April 19, 2009
An exhibition at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry that featured a range of the ICI's projects over the past decade. Included documentation of my work with the Plaintext Players, a pioneering internet performance group. Visible in this photograph of the installation: performance stills, a video projection from The Roman Forum Project 2003, and a vitrine of scripts and other ephemera.
"Mediated" Jan. 31-April 4, 2009
An exhibition at the California Museum of Photography in which I showed a video installation based on my Playing the Rapture performance work. For Playing the Rapture: Tiny, I projected edited video onto a miniature version of the original set. Installation photos can be found at the Playing the Rapture
website. Opening: Jan. 31, 6-10 pm. Show catalog available as PDF (print version available through museum).
"Out of School" Jan. 24-Feb. 27 2009
An exhibition at the Brea Art Gallery, in which I showed "Chronovacuum", a video constructed from found webcam imagery, with an original soundtrack.
"Scalable Relations: Playing the World(s)" Jan. 23-March 20, 2009
An exhibition at UC San Diego's gallery@CalIT2, in which I showed a video installation based on my Playing the Rapture performance work. Playing the Rapture (Point of View) had video of the two protagonists (and antagonists) appearing in separate video monitors, surrounded by machinima projections. Installation photos can be found at the Playing the Rapture website, and the exhibition catalog can be ordered from lulu.com. Information on the show, curated by Christiane Paul, can be found at the Scalable Relations website. Opening: Jan. 23, 6-9 pm; artist's talk, 5-6 pm. An interview with me and Robert Nideffer on our projects for this show. In February 2009, on the -empyre- mailing list, the show participants discussed the notion of scalable relations.
"080808 UpStage Festival" August 2008
I participated in this festival of online performance, premiering a new project entitled Noxiterra that incorporates a synthetic biome-based world as a performance environment. The piece was improvised live on the web over the course of two days, and one segment was simultaneously projected in the ZKMax Gallery, Munich. You can check out my new Avatarist blog, where I am uploading materials from this project, including the first installment of a graphic novel.
The AIDS Chronicles 2003
Exhibition of "The AIDS Chronicles," a project of the Los-Angeles-based Institute of Cultural Inquiry to draw attention to the nature of AIDS reporting in the New York Times. I was one of the main organizers of this show at the Sam Francis Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), celebrating the project's tenth anniversary.
More on the 2003 "AIDS Chronicles."
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry's web page about the "AIDS Chronicles."
"Conversations" 2003
Invitational show at Sam Francis Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), highlighting pairs of artists with a shared history of conversations about their work. More on "Conversations."
"Reactions" 2001-02
Group exhibition in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center. Venues: Exit Art (New York, Jan.-Mar. 2001); The Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA, August 2001). "Reactions" has been acquired by the Library of Congress for its permanent collection, with selections featured in the LOC exhibition "Witness and Response" (Washington, D.C., Sept.-Oct. 2002).Full poster.
"Out of Context" 2001
Group exhibition, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino.
"Milestones for Peace" 2001
International traveling group show whose venues have included the 2001 Venice Biennale (Italy) as well as sites in Tel Aviv (Israel) and New York City. "Milestones for Peace" is scheduled for permanent exhibition in the future Rabin Peace Center, Tel Aviv (now under construction). All works commissioned for this invitational show were based on a truncated tetrahedron of pink dolomite; my entry, "Paper Scissors Rock," shows how the rock would look if its surface could be unfolded.