Installation • 2002 • Designer*



Prototyped for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Connections allows visitors to explore some of the many works that a museum owns, but is unable to display due to physical space constraints. Visitors are able to participate in the selection of art displayed in a gallery through both a physical installation and the museum's website. This project examines the relationship between virtual and physical space while extending the limitations of the museum's physical facilities. Read More »

Installation • 2002 • Designer

'A sustainable activity is one that you believe you can continue indefinitely into the future...or at least for seven generations.'*

Overview
Over the course of one year, our environment is flooded with more toxic waste than it can handle. Seventh Generation examines what happens when the very system essential for our survival is not supported.

As a baby wails and squirms in an enclosed ecosystem, pollution statistics are processed and used to control the flow and frequency of waste being pumped into her environment. The pollutants include those of a liquid variety (directed through electronic pumps) and those of a gaseous variety (produced with a fog machine). When a user touches the human handprint on the front of the installation, the baby is temporarily calmed. Fans mounted within the installation drain the 'air pollution' from the environment toward the user - revealing the baby's wasteland and allowing users to sooth the infant at the cost of their own airspace. As the user leaves the installation, however, the pollution once again begins to fill the environment - continuing the steady process of accumulation and destruction. Read More »

Video Installation • 2001 • Designer*



Ice is a video installation examining burning memories, the creation of loss, and the process of forgetting. Live video is projected onto a block of ice - burning the viewer's image into the eroding space of memory. As a visitor ponders this installation, his or her own presence (through the form of projected light/video) adds to the overall destruction of the piece. Ice was displayed for three days in a temperature-controled environment. At the end of this period, the memory-as-image had burrowed a hole clear through the ice - leaving behind only a fragile, empty frame of ice. Read More »

Installation • 2001 • Designer*

Unconscious Flows, a public art installation designed along with Christina Wong, allows multiple users to communicate by remotely sensing the presence of others through four hanging water capsules.

The Experience
As a user looks into a capsule or places a hand over the water, sensors detect presence and alter the amplitude, rhythm, and tempo of low-frequency sounds. The vibrations from these sounds create concentric patterns upon the water's surface which change depending on the proximity of the user, the number of participants, and the length of each interaction.

While this is happening, speakers within the top of each capsule play music that is generated in real-time. Information gathered from the interaction is used to create the specific tones, amplitudes, and rhythms of gentle chimes and bells. Communicating through abstract forms such as music, vibration, and touch, participants are challenged to examine the ways in which their actions are translated to those around them. Read More »

Video Installation • 2001 • Designer

Drag Garden is a public video installation designed for East Village community gardens. Between the hours of midnight and 4am, drag queens (dressed in fairy garb) will inhabit a variety of gardens throughout NYC's East Village as miniature video projections on rocks, walls, and sign posts. Almost imperceptible to those passing by (these spaces are locked behind chain-linked fences during the night), these characters celebrate the history of drag in this area of the city while questioning the thresholds of public/private spaces, the visible/invisible, and the possibility of crossing boarders.

This installation targets an audience that might not expect to encounter public art - namely, those on their way home from the bars. Focusing on this (usually overlooked) audience, the installtion provides humor, a bit of historical reference, and a greater sense of community.