reznor on his preferred instrument [ moog ]
trent reznor talks about the moog synthesizer, how it is 'the instrument' for creating his music. later he mentions fighting the temptation for quantized perfection while making 'hesitation marks' - -...
View Articleinterview link [ ungun in UNLOADED at Northern Illinois University ]
“With shows like these or any artwork that deals with trauma, there is a tension between opening wounds and doing further harm,” Slavick said. “I think this show tries to give a larger picture across...
View Article‘guns & consequences’ cancelled by bomb threat at NIU campus last night
Guns And Consequences was a spoken word event I organized in conjunction with the exhibition UNLOADED, which is on view at Northern Illinois University's Art Gallery through October 24. Sponsored by...
View Article[ taking things apart ] at NIU
Why teach this now? Well, our history is full of horrifying material; we can access disturbing simulacra of this material on the internet. Additionally, the internet reports new traumatic stuff to us...
View Articleuntitled antonio roberts video
Antonio Roberts made this. i think it describes the emotional mirroring overload of micro reactions i have skimming the internet when sh*t really hits the fan and so many people are scrambling...
View Articleon gifs [ storifying the latent content of film/television narrative media ]
Gifs tend to amplify or expand particular moments from narrative media. At times they bring movement to a static image; other times they strip moments from narrative to expand the gesture used to tell...
View Articleon performing [ send and receive ]
I had invited audience members to come to the gallery, to tell me a story about guns. My request inverted the art object's signal flow. The audience usually comes to a museum to get something. Now they...
View Articlepublication : on capture
My essay on capture [ a semiotic meditation ] has been published in Libregraphics issue 2.4. Check it out, its an amazing issue, featuring writing by ginger coons, Antonio Roberts, Stéphanie...
View Article2016 resolution : teaching artist
In 2015 I created a teachable framework for artists to become more sanely comfortable working with "dangerous" content. Making art, the artist must spend a lot of time with the subject matter. If the...
View ArticleWhere the f did Monday go?
Aesthetically, for me his cutup/assemblage lyricism and archetype-roulette slots alongside that of William Burroughs. Both Bowie and Burroughs are important to me as pop culture links to DaDa and side...
View Articleglitch [ america’s brokenness ] // data painting [ motel black ]
My 'data painting' works are short meditations intended to capture a particular mood or moment. This work, created between October and December of 2015, evolves from my witnessing and considering the...
View Article“Chicago Metra Number Station” live at Dada Sounds project
Cities & Memory maps the sounds of the world through discrete online projects. I created "Chicago Metra Number Station" for their Dada Sounds project. Artists were invited to remix field recordings...
View ArticleUNLOADED in Ithica, NY – WENY coverage
UNLOADED - curated group art show about guns - up in Ithaca. WENY news covered it well. My work - ungun [ glitched handguns, animated ] - is in the clip as well as many pieces from the show. … Continue...
View Articlewomen coders: hidden in the secretarial class ––
psst. one for late Sunday night studio practice realizations: I realized where women's skill at coding has been hiding in our cultural history. Women are the secretaries, the support roles for male...
View Article[ mac workflow ] install wordnet for processing + RiTa
"Wordnet is definitely not written for use by humans." - a helpful friend I work with language as a poet. I write "poems for paper" as well as "poems for spoken-word performance". In both, often,...
View Articleare we ourselves ?
Of course they set up and performed in a field in front of a giant satellite beacon thingy. That and the lyric Because seen through these eyes / We lead a double life were prescient - but it was 1984....
View Articlethe digital artist ships 2 paintings to NYC [ what? ]
I come from a family of people who work in health care, including doctors. So, anecdotally, I've heard what gunshots do to the body. I spent about a year working in a hospital in Pittsburgh, I know...
View Article»radiantdevices« & Chandeliers & Psychic TV July 22 2016 at Reggie’s, Chicago
There were technical shenanegans, this was a running around putting out fires & pulling it together with no spare minutes & & Genesys B-P, after Psychic TV's opening song, said the...
View ArticleSenator Portrait Project [ the site ]
Find my digital-analog paintings and check out my artist statement at the site : http://www.senatorportraitproject.org … Continue Reading →
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