Leo Goldsmith and I served as technical consultants on 20th Century Fox’s sci-fi film directed by James Gray, and starring Brad Pitt. Read interviews with us at Filmmaker, Screen Slate, and the Museum of the Moving Image.
A grant from Georgia Tech’s Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center supports the development of digital archive related to pioneering video artist Dara Birnbaum’s now-lost Rio VideoWall (1989), and plan for the artwork’s digital recreation. Birnbaum’s VideoWall was the first multi-screen video artwork to be installed in a public setting in the United States. It employed twenty-five identical 27” video monitors, stacked in a five-by-five grid, powered by two LaserDisc players and computer code written in C-Through specifically for the piece. But the VideoWall was not only noteworthy for its technological innovation; it was also significant for the site that served as its inspiration and eventual home: The Rio Shopping Complex, a mall in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward. Combining scenes of the site’s natural landscape from before the mall’s construction with an unedited live-stream of CNN footage, all filtered through the moving silhouettes of mall patrons in real time, the VideoWall presciently interlaced a number of ideas that continue to resonate in the 21st century, including the 24-hour media cycle, surveillance culture, the legacy of segregation, the effects of gentrification, and the Anthropocene.
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory (after D.B.)
Co-artist with Anna Weisling, multimedia installation, Atlanta, GA (April 2019-ongoing).
An online guide to the people, practices, and philosophies of handmade cinema.
Taking its name from works by Andy Warhol and Robert Breer, Inner/Outer Space presents a live video mix exploring the space race and psychedelic consciousness expansion. The A/V journey brings together interstellar NASA footage with abstract depictions of interiority via the films and videos of Stan Brakhage, José Antonio Sistiaga, Adam K. Beckett, Jim Davis, Ture Sjölander, Elias Romero, and others.
Featuring a live musical score by Brooklyn electro/acoustic folk-psych masters Christian Science Minotaur.
The orchestral rock band I co-founded and played guitar for. You may have heard our music on this Coca-cola ad. You can hear us on Spotify.