Machines for Suffering I: flythrough v1, NFT minted on Foundation. Click here to view

Synthetic Statues, multi-channel video, 03:48.
Available on Sedition

This multi-channel video work was designed to be projected onto hanging fabric or sandblasted glass screens, installed in a large, darkened space. The screens should sit some distance from the wall so the projection can be experienced as sculpture as well as two-dimensional video.

Body/Traces (USA/Spain) was an EMPAC Dance Movies commission for 2008-9, supported by the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.

Body/Traces is a digital stop-motion 3d animation composed of thousands of 3d laser scans, made with a DIY laser scanner made from LEGO.
It is designed to be shown projected in a darkened room for a small number of visitors, with the dancer at life-size and the video on a continuous loop.

04302011 is a 5 minute, 30 second video of 38 New Yorkers whose portraits I made, using a 3d laser scanner. The result is an identity parade of textured 3d scans of their faces, rotating in and out of the light.

The glitchy, fragmented look of these scans results from my misuse of the high-end 3d laser scanner, which was never designed to capture the body. When faced with breath and movement it breaks down, generating conflicting and overlapping spatial coordinates. Subjects must close their eyes to protect themselves from the laser beam, and this generates other referents too: their serene expressions evoke memorial portraiture, and together the display could be seen as a kind of gallery of the dead.

My segment of Claudia Hart's collaborative artwork On Synchronics, created with 23 other students and alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.