Older Archived Interactive Work

Every Environment is Text-Rich: Framingham

Shown as a one-room solo exhibition at the Danforth Museum of Art, this piece used a PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) camera mounted in a storefront and showing the main intersection of Framingham, Massachusetts. The camera had seemingly random erratic movements, but upon watching it, one notices a pattern; that pattern spelled out the original charter that granted what is now Framingham to Thomas Danforth.

Cell Tagging allowed users to mark a satellite image of a place that has meaning to them by using the numbered keypad of a cellphone. Built before smartphones, this piece used dual tone multi-frequency (the noises you hear when you press a button on a phone) to signal an application to draw on top of a satellite image chosen by the user by punching in their zip code on the phone. Technically ambitious, much of the software used here is now obsolete.

Cell Tagging: Raleigh

In this piece, the user employed an AR (augmented reality) application and added the Cell Tagging layer. They could then use a custom application to make a drawing and digitally "place" it at the location where they drew it. A kind of digital graffiti, the markings could be seen by anyone else who opens the layer.

The Landscape

This piece randomly grabbed still landscape images from Flickr and very slowly faded from one to another. There were always three images on the screen, making it always three places and no place at all.

An Hour of Your Time

Using one of the first interactive/video pieces of software (Director), this work had a countdown timer and changing text that suggested what else you could be doing besides watching the piece. The text changed every second for an hour, meaning that there were 3600 individual suggestions.

Command-Control

Using a live webcam and a simple form, users could type in an action for a performer to do, incorporating a bidding mechanism to literalize the exchange value of labor. Conceived well before the advent of OnlyFans, the actions were approved by the performer before they were displayed on the screen.

Road Apple Test

Using widely available digital frames, I randomized images that I took in southern Spain and northern Morocco. Struck by the brilliant sky, I started to frame my images with parts of architecture infringing on the sky.

66 Pieces of the West Mediterranean Sky

Collaborating with my dear friend Owen Smith, we took an older Mac SE and threw it off of the back of a pickup truck. This seemingly reckless action was actually carefully coordinated, inspired by Royal RoadTest by Ed Ruscha. Owen has since passed, and I miss him terribly.

Cell Tagging