MANIFESTO

Architecture and war are not incompatible. 

Architecture is war. War is architecture.

I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family, no doctrine, no firm place to call my own, no known beginning or end, no "sacred and primordial site." I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me to my own falseness, my own pitiful fears: I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky.

                                         I cannot know your name. Nor can you know mine.
                                      Tomorrow, we begin together the construction of a city.

--I fell in love with LEBBEUS WOODS, 06.01.2013, 12:45AM, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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"No Upload Drinks From Outside"

After chasing them a while, I inserted the flat salmon into the disc drive on my laptop and watched as the fish slowly emerged on the screen. It wasn't the image of the fish, but more the presence or its impression-- I did it with all the others (maybe 9?) before I wondered how I'd use my computer again, or if I could hit escape and eject them...

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hum about mine ears

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

-CALIBAN, The Tempest

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OUT-OF-ORDER

The last week of my experimental video class at Southern Exposure is nigh...
and the work coming out of the Perception Laboratory is about to arrive:

OUT-OF-ORDER

Opening Reception and Screening: Thursday, May 16, 2013, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Project Dates: May 16 - June 1, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00 pm

Lead Teaching Artist: Allison Leigh Holt
Assistant Teaching Artist: Jonathan Weisburst
AIE Intern: Kelley O'Leary
 
In negotiating our human experience, we order our reality and express meaning through several languages: the spoken and written word, moving images, time and physical space. Behaviors that begin quite naturally can easily descend into routine. How do these limits affect our perception?

Through the absurdist spirit of DADA, OUT-OF-ORDER explores experimental video as a tool for interpreting and subverting conventional modes of perception, reordering these standardized languages and presenting them anew. The exhibition showcases the artists' experimental process as well as its products. Parameters, Disruption, and Interpretation: students are developing sets of basic working principles, exercising those structures across different media, then deliberately reinterpreting those structures through video. OUT-OF-ORDER points to our habits of thinking, reminding us to reorder them and challenge ourselves toward new visions.

SoEx's Youth Advisory Board is a youth-driven afterschool program where students collaborate with professional artists to produce an art exhibition at SoEx. This Spring, YAB is producing an experimental video project with teaching artists Allison Leigh Holt and Jonathan Weisburst, in conversation with an upcoming Fall 2013 SoEx project: Difficult to Make Out. The YAB project, OUT-OF-ORDER , seeks to challenge the thought systems that determine the nature of our experience. The project is the culmination of experimental processes and exercises across different media, and the final reception will present these experiments as well as a screening of student work.

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TBWTE at Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering

Greetings, all.

Strange Loops, an exhibition of my current series of diagrams from The Beginning Was The End will have its opening reception (and brief presentation) on 05.10.2013 from 5 - 7pm at
Stanford University's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME). 

The work is on view at the ICME from 03.15 – 06.15.2013. 
If anyone reading this makes the trek out to this far-flung, auspicious locale I will be extremely pleased!

The Four Saudara

                                                                                              

That is all.

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Palindrome at Night Lights

                                                                                                 Palindrome, 2006

Palindrome exhibited twice in Boston in the year it was made. I changed course a little after that, and moved, and traveled, and did the Fulbright thing, so along with my other video sculptures, it was effectively shelved until this January, when John Jota Leaños selected Palindrome for his exhibition at Headlands Center for the Arts. I was pleased as punch then, and likewise now that Dorothy Santos included it in her curatorial bids for last nights Night Light Multimedia Garden Party at SOMArts. My thanks to the both of them for bringing it back... and inciting more...

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Signal Mountain

                                       Signal Mountain, Helen Scarsdale | Oilly Oowen 2013

  

Signal Mountain-- Jim Haynes and my single-channel edit of our 30-minute expanded cinema performance @ SFMOMA-- somehow headlined a pretty impressive line-up last weekend at Other Cinema. An intense capper on an otherwise playful evening, she sure got a lot of nice compliments! (View linked image above.) John Davis + Craig Baldwin's live 16mm / sound performance was top-shelf to say the least.
Artist Television Access, thanks for having us.

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