I’ve had the same design for the site for awhile. Seems like a good time for a redesign.

Things will be in flux for a bit while I fiddle.

And move to LA. Things will be in flux while I redesign the site and move to LA.

Ok, I am finally getting around to documenting some work.  This is the work that will be going into the show this week and _ Quarterly. It’s a continuation of my previous work with text cut up, this time using news feeds from major news sources as the source, capturing and recontextualizing the contemporary zeitgeist.

It was written with Processing, and there are four pieces printed on 50″x38″ Strathmore watercolor paper, and the full series can be seen here.

Lots going on behind the scenes here. Graduation and moving. Starting up a lot of new projects.

One of the completed projects (the word for which I should really document here) is a show in conjunction with the publication of the work in _ Quarterly. The opening/release party is this Saturday, June 6 at the Box Factory (865 Florida St, San Francisco)

And I promise to document the work soon as I get set up down south.

Here is a little project that I did recently. It is a Processing sketch that draws a map based on how often a country is mentioned in major media outlets (Such as the New York Times, Guardian UK, Al Jazeera, Reuters, AP). The brighter the country, the more mentions in the media.

A note about the applet, click the ‘approve’ button that will pop up (I have to sign the applet for security reasons) and give it a moment to do it’s thing, it’s doing a lot behind the scenes!

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came out and contributed to the opening of the Locality show, and made it such a success!!! Seriously, the level of work and the number of people that came out to support was better than any of us could have hoped for.  I am hoping to have pictures from the opening up soon.

And if you missed out on the opening, or want more of the greatness, come to the closing party, on April 16th, 8pm – 11pm.

Thanks again!!!

So, next week is the opening of the big show that I have been working on for the past few months.  This was my baby, and I am curating/organizing/artist wrangling this one with a number of amazing people, most notably my co-conspirator on this Taylor Tschider.

For the show, we wanted to focus on the idea of the local. What does it mean to be from, and to live in, a particular place? What does it mean to interact with the world as an individual, an artist, and a citizen in this time of “the world is flat” globalization.  Over 30 artists have worked cross-media and created work that address these issues around the local.

April 2-16
Opening April 2nd, 8pm – 11pm
Closing April 16th, 8pm – 11pm

Sub Mission Art Space
2183 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA

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A day late and a dollar short and all of that….

But things have been busy, and I haven’t had time to update this as much as I would like to.  At any rate, I have some work (specifically a sound piece) up at Kicker Studio here in SF.  It’s a great show headed up by my friend Jody Medich.

More info can be found here.

So, my show was last week.  Here is some documentation of the work.

The work that I did for the show are three different texts that were generated from a Processing sketch that I wrote. I was interested in William Burrough’s cut-up technique and using that as a starting point. So the sketch that I wrote does a web search on a term, returning the entire text from the top ten site related to that search term. Those texts are then broken into sentences, brought together, and reassembled at random into new texts. For this show, I chose to only assemble paragraphs. I choose related search terms for this — “free market,” “drunkenness,” and “decadence” — with each work representing a different term.

Hit me up if you are interested in the source code (its a bit loose to send out into the world at the moment).

Below are details of the work. Click on them for a close up.

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The Murder City Devils came through on Sunday on their West Coast reunion tour. I can’t express how much this band, both musically and as people, have affected my life. To have them back, and bringing so many people together, has been amazing. I started out taking pictures at their earliest shows (I know that some of my first rolls of film are of them before their first album came out). Below are some more pictures from the show, and the entire set is here.

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I should have posted this earlier, but part of the reason things have been so quiet on the blog front is that I have been working on some new work for a show that is up this week. I am really happy with the work up, and the show in general. If you are in SF, you should check it out!

Love in the Age of Craigslist
2.8.09 – 2.14.09
Diego Rivera Gallery
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA