ALL WorkS

    Karaoke Ice

    2006

    Performance, software, truck, icies, squirrel emcee, lights, web site

    In collaboration with Katie Salen and Nancy Nowacek
    Tinklepop Music: Lem Jay Ignacio
    Designed and produced in collaboration with students and graduates of the San Jose State Cadre Laboratory for New Media

    Commissioned for ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge,CADRE / SJSU, and the Montalvo Arts Center Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs.

    Proper Pop Protocol:10 Steps to Achieve Karaoke Wonder 1. Resist the urge to stare at your feet. You’ll miss the cue from the squirrel.2. When attempting to sing Hey Ya by Outkast, remember that vowels too can be words.3. Avoid gazing directly into the mirror ball.4. If you lose your place, make it up.5. Try…

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    The Space Invaders

    2005

    3′ 51″, sound
    Single channel animated video
    DVD or Quicktime

    This work is part of the project:

    How do you wage war on an abstract noun? Terry Jones  The Space Invaders is a composite of live-action footage and 2D character animation, redolent of vaudeville sketches, early cartoon pranks, and Grand Guignol’s shock theater. Conceived as a strand of animated paintings, the concept of Code Orange and other viral promulgators of fear are externalized as…

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    Nicking the Never

    2004, 2007

    7-channel installation
    animation, DVD and quicktime, sound

    Music: Lem Jay Ignacio
    Technology: Julian Bleecker
    Installation Design (The Kitchen): Palmer Moss & Marina Zurkow
    Title Design: Nancy Nowacek

    Nicking The Never is a project of Creative Capital, with generous support from Creative Capital, The Jerome Foundation, and The Media Arts Fellowship (supported By The Rockefeller Foundation).

    Nicking the Never is a multi-linear installation that incorporates screen-based animated narratives into a sculptural interface. Composed of allegories about a young girl stuck in a kinetic world of emotional pitfalls, this kaleidoscopic trip into the states of selfhood bases its structure in the Tibetan Buddhist Wheel of Existence, whose images luridly and vividly describe…

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    Pussy Weevil

    2003-2005

    9” x 8” X 16.5” custom metal housing, Mini-ITX PC, High res 6.4” monitor, Sensor interface, 120V power surge box, Speakers
    Edition of 5, signed on mounted interior plaque

    Pussy Weevil is a screen-based installation of an individual software persona, a 2D animated character, who reacts to the viewer’s distance or proximity.

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    Man Woman

    2003

    The pixel is an unfixed unit of measure; on the computer, it is the smallest unit of visual information that can be used to build an image. Yet it has an extremely tangible quality. Sometimes, I feel mediated by the pixel. If I work long at a computer and move away, I find myself measuring…

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    PDPal

    2002-2004

    Mobile missions for web, pda & cell phone

    In collaboration with Julian Bleecker, Scott Paterson, and Adam Chapman

    Eyebeam Atelier, Walker Art Center, Banff Center for the Arts

    To cover the world, to cross it in every direction, will only ever be to know a few square meters of it… tiny incursions into disembodied vestiges, small incidental excitements, improbable quests congealed in a mawkish haze a few details of which will remain in our memory. And with these, the sense of the world…

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    Parthenogenesis

    2002

    Created, Directed and Animated by Marina Zurkow
    Music: Lem Jay Ignacio

    A project of Creative Capital

    What is the heart? It is not human, and it is not imaginary Rumi Parthenogenesis is an animated, allegorical nano-opera. It tells an oblique story of love, loss, and self-reconciliation by utilizing the language of international symbols, traditionally reserved for explicit instruction in the world. This pictographic language can produce multiple layers in a single…

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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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    Power at Play

    2002

    Printed Cards

    BLUR is a biannual seminar exploring new creative practices that embrace the pleasure, seduction, and energy of new technologies while calling for deeper reflection and critical awareness of our actions in digital art and culture. BLUR is organized by Creative Time. The New School, and Parsons School of Design. BLUR 02, Power at Play in…

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    Braingirl

    2000-2003

    Braingirl is a nine-episode animated series about a mutant-cute girl who wears her insides on the outside, literally. Braingirl and her hapless sidekick Bagboy live in a world of externalized emotion, where little is hidden yet nothing is what it appears to be. Braingirl is part experimental film and part pop culture blast; it explores how…

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    Advent Pix

    1998
    This work is part of the project:

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