With your Fist and with your Feet was an acoustic guitar and vocal recording that i put into a shared folder at the Plato Town Ship. What came out the other end of the collaborative server was much different – “…are those birds?” The video was an experiment in video…
This video contains a dozen or so painting-animations. Some utilize some photo and video collage. The music is by the band 55 with whom I have made many recordings. I am playing bass on these tracks. Longer Version Abbreviated Version of my introduction to iPad drawing. This one includes…
5 musical acts with video art accompaniment mad up the original TIME & PLACE with ROOK RICHARDSON SHOW.HERE are a few numbers from that evening and a few other preliminary experiments with shooting bands performing live 3fives @ Time & PLACE Dominic Johnson and Max Glascot – AKA DOJO…
VIDEO CLOTHES Dressing Light – Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago For several years, I have collaborated on art and design projects with Belgium Fashion Designer and School of the Art Institute Fashion Instructor Anke Loh. She initially contacted me after seeing my video at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Flavors of Fashion…
SAIC FASHION 2006 Marshal Fields Loop Another off-shoot of the Flavor for Fashion event was a call from the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute. They had seen my performance at the Chicago Cultural Center and wanted me to help them with a documentary project. We found…
This has been a poem, a song, a film and required reading for hundreds of High School juniors. I wrote the poem at Mount Mercy College in 1997. The song was first performed in 2003 and was later recorded for the Rook Rumors album. The film premiered at DePaul University…
We took the best of my two creative worlds, Chicago Art Department and Saint Xavier University Department of Art & Design, and smashed them together. The topic was Chicago Streets – Every Artist chose a different street. Documentary made by a student in the class. Classroom Footage Concert Footage WESTERN…
LOVER LEAVER Location: Transamoeba – South Loop – Chicago Year: 2003 All of the members of the rock band Hive of Fives, including myself, took part in the Chicago Art Department (see below). The topic chosen for the first CAD exhibit was “Love It or Leave It’. For the CAD…
In the spring of 2004, Laura Chiarmonte and Marvin Marzocco of the modern dance company Creative Arts Melting Pot, contacted Deb Vogt and I, to see if we were interested in contributing a multimedia performance for their upcoming show about fears. IMAGERY After a brief conversation about our fears and…
History Whistle is the first video I created using the video printmaking technique wherin a performer slides class plates containing parts of the whole image in front of a video camera. The viewer watches the image being created and disected as the camera jumps focus from layer to layer. History…