Staring Contest, Brad Pitt
video • in progress
The Sparkling
interactive video installation • 2008
Featured in solo show at ThreeWalls in Chicago.
TV = Evil
video • 2008
A TV hypnotizes and absorbs a beautiful girl and spits out her evil twin, a watery corpse. (Footage from Poltergeist and The Ring)
Featured in solo show at ThreeWalls in Chicago.
Superfan
video • 2008
Superfan stars Jillian McDonald riding in vehicles with costars Billy Bob Thornton, Vincent Gallo, and Donald Sutherland. Despite their attempts at conversation, the trio of male leads cannot shake her concentration on the game.
Commissioned by Art Engine (Canada) and featured in Superfan exhibition with Art Engine in Ottawa.
The Girl Who Spoke With Animals
video in progress...
Vampire Hunt
2-channel video • 2007
Vampire Hunting is a two-channel video in which projections on two opposing
walls position the viewer in the center of a visual loop, wherein a vampire
endlessly pursues her prey. On screen, I “play”
both roles.
Featured in solo shows at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York and 1708 Gallery in Virginia.
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Everyone Will Suffer
animation • 2007
"Death is a Shortcut, Evil has found a new home..." Familiar taglines from popular 1970s onward horror films form a spoken warning,
the subject ever evasive. Sundown creeps slowly across a country setting, rendered as an 8-bit animation reminiscent of early computer graphics and video games.
Featured in solo show at ThreeWalls in Chicago, and in B I T M A P: As Good as New at vertexList Gallery in Brooklyn.
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The Screaming
video • 11 minutes • 2007
I trespass digitally into existing horror films scenes. Uttering a scream on cue with the startling action, but
rather than screaming in helpless horror, I scream to scare the monsters away, or even destroy them. (pictured -
screaming in Hallowe'en)
Featured in solo shows at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York, 1708 Gallery in Virginia, and La Sala Naranja in Spain.
more info and excerpt from video
Zombies in Condo-Land
series of 3 animations, and prints • 2007
A motley crew of zombies - images downloaded from internet documentation of flash mob "zombie-walks" - lumber through post-industrial Brooklyn cityscapes long gentrified and now rezoned for condo living.
Featured in group shows at Sara Nightingale Gallery in Long Island, and at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis
The Bloom of the Triffid
animation • 2006
The Bloom of the Triffid is an animation. I tracked the bloom of Brookyn's corpse flower during August 2006 via The Brooklyn Botanical Garden's webcam. I compiled still images from the webcam into a stop motion animation and digitally altered it to frame the strange bloom in a spotlight. The bloom made national deadlines as the first of it's kind to bloom in New York since 1939. Visiting it in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens I was struck by it's diva quality, all alone in the center of a greenhouse with hordes of fans, cameras snapping, and news correspondents. Brooklyn's borough president Marty Markowitz proclaimed August 10th "Baby the Corpse Flower Bloom Day". A triffid is a fictional carnivourous plant.
Featured in a group show at Long Island University Gallery
Zombie Loop
2-channel video • 2006
Zombie Loop is a two-channel video in which projections on two opposing walls position the viewer in the center of a visual loop, wherein a gruesome zombie endlessly pursues a running survivor. On screen, I “play” both zombie and survivor.
Featured in solo shows at ArtMoving Projects
Gallery in Brooklyn, and at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis.
more info and installation documentation
Imagine the Electricity When we Meet. Portrait of Billy Bob, Caressed Slowly
8-bit animation on LED screen • 2005 • 3 minutes
Commissioned for Bit Editions, vertexList
Gallery, Brooklyn
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QuickTime movie
Portraits of Billy Bob as Paint By Numbers 1
drawing and interactive video projection on wall • dimensions variable
Projected colours fill in one-by-one to reveal the portrait of Billy Bob, lovingly rendered.
Chester and Poncho
2-channel DVD • 2005 • 20 seconds loop • colour
Chester and Poncho are chihuahuas that do everything together, and look roughly the same. Frequently they are taken for twins though they are quite unalike in mannerism and personality.
Featured in Bring in the Clones, at vertexList Gallery in Brooklyn, and Animal Series at MMOCA in Madison, WI
Billy Bob Got Plastic Surgery
DVD • 2004 • 30 seconds
site-specific tv commercial for The Drake Hotel installation, 2004
Drum Solo for Billy Bob
DVD • Aug 4, 2004 (Billy Bob's 49th Birthday) • 3 minutes • colour/sound
I drummed morse code for "I Love You Billy Bob" on my skin with the drumstick Billy Bob handed me from the stage of his concert tour, Sept 5, 2003
part of a solo exhibition at the Drake Hotel (for Images Festival and TPW Gallery)
in Toronto, and The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
visit MeAndBillyBob.com for more info and video excerpt
Billy Bob Tattoo
drawing on my knee, every day in June.
DVD • 20 minutes, looped • 2004
exhibited in group show, 'Infinite Fill' at Foxy Productions Gallery, NYC. Part of a solo exhibition at the Drake Hotel (for Images Festival and TPW Gallery) in Toronto, and The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. visit MeAndBillyBob.com for more info and video excerpt
Screen Kiss
DVD and website 2005.
detail from Screen Kiss. Video shown at Scope Hamptons - curated by Trong Nguyen and Lee Wells. Transmedia 29:59 - Year Zero One's public video billboard project in Toronto. Group exhibitions at SixtySeven Gallery in NYC, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Bosto Center for the Arts, The Apartment in Istanbul, The Arts Center in St Petersburg FL, Sagamore Hotel in Miami. Solo exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents, NYC. Part of a solo project at The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
• with support from Soil Digital Media in Regina
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To Vincent, With Love (still from In the Tub With Vincent Gallo)
4 DVDs • videos are 1 minute - 6 minutes looped • 2004
exhibited in a 2-person show at Vertex List Gallery in New York, and at Chez TGN in Brooklyn, Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. Solo exhibition at YYZ in Toronto.
Me and Billy Bob
limited edition DVD • 7 minutes • 2003
exhibited in solo shows at Video Pool in Winnipeg; The Drake Hotel (solo show for Images Festival and TPW Gallery) in Toronto 2004; Edge Media in St John's Newfoundland in 2004; Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, NYC in 2006; and San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in 2007. Group exhibitions at La Centre d'Art Contemporain in Normandy France; Latitude 53 Gallery in Edmonton; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Thomas Erben Gallery in New York; Covivant Gallery in Tampa; The Arizona State University Gallery in Tempe; Videominuto Pop TV in Firenze, Italy. solo show at Edge Intermedia @ Eastern Edge Gallery in St John’s: Desert – the 6th Manifestation of Electronic Art in Montreal; Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia; Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg Germany, Rodman Hall at Brock University in St. Catherine's Ontario, and Western Michigan University Gallery in Kalamazoo.
• with support from The Canada Council on the Arts, Pace University, and NYSCA
visit MeAndBillyBob.com for more info, video excerpt, and press
Beavers for Cherries
interactive installation • 9 minute loop • 2004
produced in residence at DAIMON New Media Centre, Québec
• with support from The Canada Council on the Arts and Pace University
exhibited in 'Americas' exhibition at Galerie Galou inBrooklyn, and at Klein Gallery of The Science Center in Philadelphia.
Live in Infamy
limited edition DVD • 15 seconds • 2002
exhibited at Transmedia 2002: 15 seconds of Fame for Year Zero One's Public Video Billboard in Toronto; and in the Toronto International Art Fair (Power Plant Booth, curated by Paul Butler)
American Sandwich
video • 3 minutes • original sound by Michael Stecky
exhibited in Insert at Cuchifritos Gallery, NY; Second Site at Hunter College Times Square Gallery; Art in General in New York; and in Truck Food, curated for moving trucks in Chelsea, NY by Alison Meehan
Paper Advantage
DVD • 4 minutes • 2002
exhibited in Second Site at Hunter College Times Square Gallery; and Straylight online in Dublin
Filled With Wonder
DVD • 3 minutes • original sound by Michael Stecky
exhibited at The Knitting Factory in New York
In <328> Other Words
video • 3 minutes • 2001
exhibited at No Live Girls - Peepshow 28 in peepbooths in San Francisco and Seattle, and at Lance Fung Gallery New York
Chocolate Suit
video • 7 minutes
exhibited in L'Amour Horreur at Galerie La Centrale in Montréal; and in Unpacked curated by Alisoun Meehan for meat lockers in Chelsea, New York
Meryl and Me
video • 3 minutes • 2001
exhibited at Momenta Gallery in New York; Straylight online in Dublin; Whitebox Gallery and Art in General in New York; the 1st Biennial of Video Art in Tel Aviv; Antitube at Meduse in Quebec City; and at The Darklight Film Festival in Dublin
Ecstasy
installation • DVD players, monitors in vertical mode, tables
exhibited in American Sandwich exhibition, curated by Peter Dudek at Star 67 Gallery in Brooklyn
Cheezies
video
exhibited in Truck Food, curated for moving trucks in Chelsea, NY by Alison Meehan