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    The Petroleum Manga
    2012

    50 banners, book
    Solvent ink on Tyvek
    10 ‘ x 54”

    This work is part of the project:

    Originally, the Japanese word manga was used to refer to “whimsical drawings” or picture books. The Petroleum Manga, a “picture book” about oil, is inspired by Hokusai’s thirteen volume set of manga. It depicts everything from trees to demons, squirrels to shingles. Each Petroleum Manga banner represents items organized by a specific petrochemical: PET, PVC, HDPE, PMMA, polystyrene, polyurethane, ammonia,…

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    Immortal Plastics
    2012

    Participatory performance

    In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg

    Premiered at New Museum IDEAS CITY

    This work is part of the project:

    Immortal Plastics (IP) Assessment Services is a performative, methodological procedure which determines the depth of participants’ relations with hydrocarbons and positions participating individuals on a timeline of plastic’s ancient past and indefinite future. 250 million years ago during the Permian Period, marine microorganisms died and accumulated in sediments on the floor of a vast saline…

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    Necrocracy (project overview)
    2012-2014

    Project consisting of videos, dinners, software, sculptures, public art engagements, printed matter

    Diverseworks gallery text by John Pluecker

    Commissioned by Diversweworks, Houston Texas
    Supported by a 2011 John F Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

    This work is part of the project:

    Necrocracy is a meditation on geology, time, nature and petrochemical production. First exhibited at Diverseworks in Houston, Texas, Necrocracy featured newly commissioned video animation, drawing and sculpture. Questioning the division between the natural and the human inherited from the Romantic era, the works navigate between human manufacturing of petroleum-based products, ecology, and the geological chronology…

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    Heraldic Crests for Invasive Species
    2011

    Series of twelve letterpress prints on Somerset paper
    Individual prints, edition of 10
    Set of all twelve prints, edition of 4
    Dimensions 18″ x 16″

    I was awarded a research residency through ISIS Arts in Newcastle, Northumberland, England in summer 2009. In 2011, I completed a series of letterpress prints, featuring twelve of the predominant invasive species in Northern England, and describing their origins, allies, enemies and victories. Heraldic Crests for Invasive Species leverages a local narrative language of power and conquest….

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    Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK)
    2011

    Software-driven animation. 146-hour year-long cycle (never repeats).
    Color, animation, sound
    Format: Flash player/projector on (intel) Mac with monitor / projection
    Dimensions variable

    Add’l animators: Xue Hou, Andrea Lira, Laewook Kang
    Code Design: Veronique Brossier
    Occasional Sound: Lem Jay Ignacio
    Leigh Bowery modeled by Lawrence Goldhuber
    Red squirrel source footage generously bartered for with Nicholas Berger

    Developed during a residency at ISIS Arts, Newcastle, Northumberland

    Four archival pigment prints on Crane MuseoDimensions 26″ x 44″ Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) is an algorithmic work, representing the passage of time on the moors of Northeast England. One hour of world time elapses in each minute of screen time, so that one year lasts 146 hours. No cycle is identical to the last, as…

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    Hospital Poetry
    2002

    Printed acetate lightbox graphics

    What happens between the apprehension of a sign, and the moment in which, through a linguistic reading, it becomes legible? This series of pictograms attempts to create poetic “short-circuits” by piggybacking on cliche and similitude. The point of meaning (if you can call it that) occurs in an extra-linguistic zone, yet depends wholly on both…

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