I’ve just finished a text on the ongoing occupation movement that has been setting roots across the globe. It looks to different concepts which I feel could be mobilized in thinking about developing the logic of the occupations further. Here’s a short exerpt:
“The occupations have emerged as an imaginative experiment in collectivity, solidarity, and horizontality, and the multiplicity of possible futures for the occupations remain beautifully undetermined and open (one of the movement’s many strengths). However, if the occupations are to perpetuate themselves and collectively move to challenge power, a thin route must be traversed between dissipation and cooptation, between collapse and capture. The struggle will be to keep these liberatory practices alive in the face of repression and recuperation.”
You can read the full text here: On Immanence and Occupations
Over the next week I’ll be exhibiting my work “I Love You, Be Safe” in the Pixilerations festival in Providence, RI. It’s a big show with a diverse group of artists all engaged in new media practices. If you find yourself in the area, please stop by and take a look at the exhibition.
Border Haunt is an attempt to bring two different databases associated with the U.S.-Mexico border into contact with one another for the duration of one day. It is an invitation to join a temporary network of people from across the world and participate in an aesthetic and political experiment, in what I’m calling a border database collision. This coordinated haunting of the border is scheduled to take place on July 15th, 2011.
Please visitwww.borderhaunt.comto participate and learn more.
BorderMachines.net is the result of my MA thesis project at SFAI and was completed in May of 2011. This website looks to three contemporary artists working in border territories and seeks to establish a ground on which we can begin to think the undoing of borders. This site is organized rhizomatically and has many routes and paths through it, resisting formal closure or resolution. Beyond the textual content of the thesis, the project takes on a formal interdisciplinarity and is presented as a transmedia, where textual, performative and digital iterations all contribute to the project’s whole. Take a look!
I just finished working on a new video project titled “Hope Relay”. It’s a video montage of Barrack Obama using the word “hope” in his speeches, and then organized and shown in various relay patterns on a loop. Hope you enjoy it! You can click here to watch it.
I’ll be showing work in the Diego Rivera Gallery with artists Paula Cobo and Violet Mendonca between May 1st and May 7th. It’s an assorted collection of both individual and collective works all on the theme of anticapitalism, and of course the exhibition was scheduled to correspond with Mayday. The gallery is located at SFAI ( 800 Chestnut St., SF, CA) and the opening is on the evening of the 3rd, hope you can make it!
I’ll be showing my work “I Love You, Be Safe” at the DeYoung museum in Golden Gate Park this Friday night as part of their artist showcase “Where To? The Call of the Times”. You can check out the event information by clicking here, and you can view the work which will be exhibited by clicking here. Hope to see some of you there!
I just finished work on a new video piece titled “Future Accumulator”. Using Metavid, a video database of congressional hearings, I downloaded every mention of the phrase “the future” in the Senate during 2011 (so far). I then edited these clips into a montage and the final result is here: Future Accumulator . I’m planning on continuing this project for the rest of the year and perhaps incorporating other phrases, hope you enjoy it!
Uninstalling Dictator, 99% Complete: (Click Here)
I made this short video highlighting all of the twitter conversations that have been surrounding the uprising in Egypt.
You can view it and download the source code here: Social Revolution
The process of making it went something like this:
1. download twitter posts on egypt via their api.
2. code a processing app to display the posts.
3. download al jazeera footage from the creative commons repository.
4. render and upload!
