Codex 2007

HD & SD video/ Jitter/ mac mini/ 24" Flat Screen

Codex is a clearing house of video clips, audio sound bytes and textual pieces created but never finished since I moved to NYC in 2003. Through the use of a semi-random algorithm the narrative body flows through sorted sets and grouping of ideas and movie clips that deal with fictional and non-fictional mini-narratives. The mini-narratives range from subjects concerning geography, technology, capitalism, socialism, political history, spiritualism, the occult, multiplicity, and direct observations of urban life on both macro and micro levels.

It's a movie that is never complete, never ending, and never the same twice. It's about me, you, and everything around us past, present, and future. Call it artful dodging by computational power, call it laziness, call it a hopeless but beautiful mess because who has time to sort out interrelated ideas, who has time for anything longer that 30 seconds ? I don't but the codex, or rather algorithm does and can neatly sort it all out for us.

The video clip below is a real-time output of the MAX/MSP/Jitter patch (as shown at the bottom). The font size is slightly off and the audio is missing. The piece was designed to run in real-time fully automated and/or be played as a VJ intstument.

Eveything old is new again ! Flesh Machine (2000) will be showing at the the Society for Photographic Education's Mid Atlantic Conference entitled, "Technocracy", November 7 & 8th 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA. The video will be screened at the Miller Gallery on Carnegie Mellon's campus over the weekend as well as during the conference on Saturday. There is a reception at the Gallery on Friday November 7th at 5:30pm. I'll be a guest panalist representing [PAM] at the conference and  will be giving an artist talk moderated by Warhol Director Tom Sokolowski and featuring panelists from Eyebeam and Rhizome See http://www.spema.org/

flesh machine 2000
2000 - 3 min

deus ex machination 1999
1999 - 3 min
compainion piece to flesh machine