PORCELAIN PRIVACY – 2006

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…

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WORKSHIFT – 2003

I have had no better collaborative art experience than the Workshift performance. Jane Gilmore and BJ Krivanek, both university professors, pulled together their favorite alums and assembled an intermedia cast of choreographers, storytellers, composers, conceptualists, documentarians and experimental media artists. The project was to tell the stories of woman working…

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THE SEXTON @ IRISH VALLEY – 2001

This is a series of 4 video stories that I created while studying at the University of Iowa in the Intermedia Department. The department had a long tradition of video art and a new set of digital tools. This was one of my first experiments in mildly abstract digital video…

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TORNADO SIREN… PLEASE – 2000

One of my first solo multi camera shots. I skipped class that night because I had nothing to present to the class. I got the idea that I would present something, instead to myself and four cameras. This is a live camera in which I am switching the video feeds…

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Album – RELIC – Rook Brut – 1999

This album was created while I was with the Plato Township We got together once a week to share tracks, pilot projects and workshop our music. This is far more digital than Ruckus and Relents Thumpier than News and Almost as cool as In the Sky – On The Ground

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ELEMENTS – UBERZETSUNG – 1999

At the University of Iowa Intermedia Workshop we were challenged to make artworks on the topic of Translation or Uberzetsung (in german) for a collaborative exhibition with a group of German artists. I chose to translate several elements of the Periodic Table. I used the atomic mass (as a unique…

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