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13 Dec 2011_Presenting at LAVA (Los Angeles Video Artists). Casey Reas will also be presenting.
25 Aug 2011_Well-received talk on a proposed history and theory for VJing at Concordia University. Notes coming soon.
July 2001_Rejected: "Detroit Project" not accepted as part of the Shrinking Cities session at 2012 Society of Architectural Historians in Detroit. No reason given.
9 Jun 2011_I produced the UCSB Media Arts and Technology End of Year Show, titled Questionable Utility. Reception 6-9pm; open reviews 10am-5pm.
16 Jun 2011_Speculative at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), curated by Zach Blas and Christopher O'Leary. This text will be included in the exhibit catalogue.
Mar-Aug 2011_Other Earth Artifacts I and II are part of the Spaceship Earth exhibit at the Contemporary Art Center in Torun, Poland, curated by Debrilla Denegri. An edited version of my text on Other Earth will also be included in the catalogue.
Dec 2010_Presenting "Detroit Project" at the Spaces and Flows conference. The title of my paper is Deterritorializing Detroit: Fragmenting Architecture to Fuse Community. It's a pragmatic version of Other Earth.
Nov 2010_treePod will be in the Landscape Techne exhibit at Little Berlin in Philadelphia, curated by Kristin Neville. I also wrote a short essay for the catalogue. Here's a cute pic.
Sep 2010_Rejected: My sukkah idea for Sukkah City NY.
Jul 2010_Invited to participate in the Human Document Project in Saarbrucken, Germany. My title is Utopian Phase Space. Notes to come soon.
May 2010_I was invited to contribute to the wiki-sprint project at the Mapping Festival in Geneva May 6-16. The aim of the project was to re-write the wikipedia page on VJing. The final wiki page is documented in audio and video, and will be printed as a pocket guide to VJing. Check out the new and improved page... which may have already changed by the time you check it out!
Jan 2010_Rejected: Paper abstract on history through photography. They didn't consider satellite and mobile imagery as photography with historical value.
Dec 2009_Rejected: Paper abstract for "Detroit Project" on introducing a model for reorganization of community centers. They said the language was hyper-specific.
Nov 2009_Tentative Architecture of Coastline Inhabitants at amber Festival in Istanbul. Additional link.
Sep 2009_Gave a presentation on my work at the School of Visual Arts.
Aug 2009_One of my artifacts of Other Earth is accepted for the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, BioLogic.
Jun 2009_Giving a brief talk at the UCLA Digital Humanities Symposium. My notes are here.
Mar 2009_Judging the VJ competition at the Miami Winter Music Conference, and VJing for Tiga Steve Aoki's Beatport set at Remix Hotel.
Feb 2009_Andres Colubri and I will be performing a very experimental VJ set at Brokenbeat on Saturday 7th.
Jan 2009_Other Earth Cloud Roll got the Gold Kahuna Award of Excellence at the Honolulu International Film Festival.
Nov 2008_Rejected: Our proposal for Lightwave at the Science Gallery in Dublin. They didn't say why. We're thinking we're too ahead of our time for a performance of sounds you can't hear and lights you can't see.
Sep 2008_Check out treePod at Character, New York City. It's part of an exhibition curated by American Design Club opening on the 25th. Now don't you want to be part of that club?
July 2008_I have been invited to give a presentation on Tentative Architecture at ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Art), this year taking place in Singapore.
April 2008_Rejected: I had a sweet proposal for GLOW Santa Monica. Squishy sand-dollars that lit when stepped on. They said it created traffic problems for my proposed site.