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2005-ongoing, public performance, exhibition, publication, internet, and video Brainstormers is an activist performance collective that is committed to bringing gender politics into the public dialogue and challenging the current power structure to change its ways. Brainstormers is a collaboration with Maria, Elaine Kaufmann and Danielle Mysliwiec.

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Billboard Art Projects

In April 2012, Time Capsule was created in collaboration with the San Francisco based artist Michele Guieu. We contributed this piece to the invitational component of the Billboard Art Project, an exhibition of visual and sound art utilizing an LED billboard and radio transmission. In 2010, two series of images, Only Passing Through and Upon a Fluent Route were included in a 24-hours of uninterrupted, noncommercial series of images contributed by artists were displayed on both sides of the LED b

Samples

2008 Sampled from various contemporary video games, Samples is a color study of blood as a representation of success in these games.

Is That All?

2008, Slide Installation with two projectectors and 160 35-mm slides Is that all? is an installation of two alternating slide projections. The slides are projected adjacent to or facing each other, either on two different walls or on two projection screens. The gathered images are edited and made into slides for each of the two slide carousels. Each slide image is culled from a different source, but all feature subtitles. The presence of the subtitles creates a previously absent dialogue bet

Interrogation Mark

2006-2008, Digital collage, variable dimensions Interrogation Mark involves gathering both violent images from the current war in Iraq and pastoral images from various lifestyle magazines and books. In the tradition of collage, the images are digitally combined in a way that suggest that dread, violence, and general pathos underpin popular images promoted in our culture.

The Go Show

2005, performance, video, and television, approx. 120 minutes The Go Show brings together a variety show’s ever-changing cast of characters and situations with a subversive re-envisioning of mainstream American culture. Its absurd and subtle humor imagines entertainment as a realm of open-ended possibility where French feminist philosophy is as much an influence as Monty Python. The four episodes of The Go Show each take on an different theme: religion, madness, art, and patriotism.

Verging

2004-2005, projected slide installation with 80 35mm slides on a carousel approx. 12 minutes (9 seconds per slide) Verging deals with the peculiarly photographic tension of the still image. I am the editor of a group of quiet, decisive moments that are appropriated from films. The perspective of the camera in every image is similar (from behind a lone woman pausing within an architectural space or landscape), and throughout it serves to amplify a tense moment preceding an unknown decision or

Loom

2004, video installation,40 minutes Loom is a silent video that is made up from found images, mostly from classic American horror and suspense films. The static images of empty spaces or architecture appear frozen or still, as if they are photographs. The still-like image is then subtly interrupted by shadow play of some forms of human presence. Each segment is dramatically slowed down, so that time will enter as an important participant in the viewing experience. The composed and subtle mov

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