More&More (Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE)

2019

Custom animation software, custom bathing suits, screens, shipping crates, plaster, 3D prints, mycelium, plexi shelving, custom wallpaper

In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg and Surya Mattu<br>
Software: Sam Brenner <br>
Web development: Neil Cline

Solo exhibition at Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE, Ålesund, Norway

This work is part of the project:

Part of the group exhibition, “Edge of the Sea”

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More&More (Maison Populaire)

2019

Custom bathing suits, custom wallpaper, custom postcards, custom website, laptop, desk, mannequins, postcard rack, salt

In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg and Surya Mattu<br>
Web development: Neil Cline

Group exhibition “Ici Sont Les Dragons” at Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France

https://www.maisonpop.fr/ici-sont-les-dragons-2-3-venez-comme-vous-etes
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Tiny Containers

2016

Custom bathing suits

This work is part of the project:

A series of swimsuits that visualize the global circulation of stuff, shrinking the overwhelming system of complex trade relationships to a human scale.

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A Guide to the Harmonized System

2016

Chris Piuma and Marina Zurkow, editors
Contributors Stacy AlaimoHeather DavisKathleen FordeDylan GauthierElena GlasbergKalliopi MathiosSteve MentzAstrida NeimanisChris PiumaElspeth ProbynSarah RothbergPhil SteinbergRita WongMarina Zurkow

Published by Punctum Books
To order a print copy or download the ebook:

https://punctumbooks.com/titles/moremore-a-guide-to-the-harmonized-system/
This work is part of the project:

This experimental “brick” of a book intervenes in the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (also known as the HS Code). Tucked into the alphabetically sorted 26,000 lines of code are poetic, personal, and scholarly annotations that are focused on ocean-related entries.

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More&More (the invisible oceans) software

2016

Custom animated software in custom powder-coated steel housing

Production: Sarah Rothberg<br>
Software: Sam Brenner

Commissioned in part by Borusan Contemporary

This work is part of the project:

Unifying the disparate commodities from large port nations into a phantasmagoric depot, MORE&MORE: China, India, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, USA, Russia, and Brazil are eight sculptural animations with custom algorithmic software generating hypnotic patterns of export products. These exports are both material trade items as noted in the Harmonized System (HS) tariff code and the nations’…

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More&More (bitforms gallery)

2016
Custom animated software in custom steel powder-coated housing, sculptures, shelving, crates, bathing suits, website, books

Production: Sarah Rothberg
Bathing suit/web site collaborators: Sarah Rothberg, Surya Mattu
Software: Sam Brenner
Web development: Neil Cline
Studio assistance: Ariana Martinez

Commissioned in part by Borusan Contemporary
This work is part of the project:

The ocean makes up 71 percent of our planet’s surface. So, how is it that we know more about Mars than the marine environments of Earth? As impenetrable as the deep oceans are to humans, we imperviously live in a black box of international shipping, reducing the ocean to a surface rather than an environmental…

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Accretions

2016

Silkscreen on found/used cardboard with rubber stamping
14″x14″
Edition of 3
Additionally unique, SP collages on silkscreen

This work is part of the project:

Accretions is a series of silkscreens on repurposed packaging cardboard. These works describe agglomerations of consumer goods: the result of what is bought, shipped globally, and discarded over time. 

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More&More (Fidelity, Luxemburg)

2017

Custom animated software, custom powder-coated steel boxes, hardware, plywood plinths

This work is part of the project:

Fidelity International corporate art collection purchased a complete set of the eight More&More (the invisible oceans) software sculptures.

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Greetings From _______ Postcards

2016

Custom commercial postcards, 4″ x 6″

This work is part of the project:

A selection of geographically distributed port nations were analyzed for their relative trade stronghold in particular materials and items. These were then converted into textile designs for new national identities based on the materials’ / items’ corresponding iconography.

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All About Logistics

2016
This work is part of the project:

Surya Mattu, Sarah Rothberg, and I had a Process Space residency through LMCC on Governor’s Island. We spent a few months traveling by boat(s) to meet, study, and discuss logistics. We took Matthew Sparke’s free online class on Globalization and Personal Impacts, and read Deborah Cowan’s The Deadly Life of Logistics. We participated in Open…

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