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Small Kindnesses, Weather Permitting
2004
For the Hiawatha Light
Rail Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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interactive mechanisms in the I-beams and windscreens of 11 Light
Rail station platforms that deliver ever-changing audio/video
content made by Minnesota residents.
In
collaboration with Scharff Weisberg, Steven Johnson of Rainville-Carlson,
XYZ Audio Visual, and over 100 Minnesotans.
Commissioned
by the Metropolitan Council.
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If You Lived Here You'd be Home
2007
At the Maplewood Light Rail Station in St. Louis.
Two demolished houses were transformed into two monumental words placed on either side of a bridge overpass.
Commissioned by Metro Arts in Transit, St. Louis, MO.
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Impersonator
2002
A sentence-generating flip-sign for the Instructional Technology Center, Santa Fe, NM. The computer writes a new sentence for each person who enters the door.
Commissioned
by New Mexico Arts.
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Carrying
On
2004
At the Prince Street
subway station, NYC.
A
1200 foot frieze depicting silhouettes of 194 New Yorkers, made of of
steel and stone, embedded in the platform walls.
In collaboration with Edward del Rosario.
Commissioned
by MTA Arts for Transit.
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the video
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The Opposite of a Duck
2009
At the Fall City Library, Fall City WA.
A transparent two-sided LED light sculpture in the window of the library. It displays unanswerable questions provided by philosophers from around the world.
Commissioned by Kings County Library System, Seattle WA.
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The
Medium
2002
For the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
Minneapolis, MN.
A constantly transforming live-feed video conversation.
Commissioned
by the Art on Campus Program.
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7:11AM 11.20.1979 79°55'W 40°27'N
2009
in the Walled Garden at Mellon Park, Pittsburgh, PA.
Both a public artwork and a memorial, this work brings the reflection of a specific sky from a moment in 1979 into the lawn of the garden. Light emerges from the grass at night, and each of the 150 sky objects can be identified by day.
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Park Conservancy and
the Pittsburgh Arts Council.
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Your
Voices
1997
For Walton High School,
Bronx, NY.
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interactive boxes in the school lobby that result in printed entries
in the student activities newsletter.
Commissioned
by Percent for Art,
New York Dept. of Cultural Affairs.
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Limited Edition
2011
For
the Brightwater Treatment System, Seattle, WA.
An
interactive, generative public work about our limited natural
resources and individual choice.
Commissioned
by 4Culture.
in fabrication, to be installed in 2011
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Lipstick Enigma
with Franklyn Berry
2010
Another sentence-generating machine, like Impersonator.
This 11 foot long display uses 1240 motors to turn lipsticks through holes in a grid to make mechanical pixels that create the letterforms.
For the Engineering School at UCF in Orlando, FL.
In fabrication, to be installed in 2010.
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Professor
Obsessive and His Two Compulsions 2004
An
animated flip-sign with moving figures that interact with each
other. A study for a larger public project.
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the video
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proposal drawing, one of five kiosks |
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Pedestrian Drama
2011
for Milwaukee's East Wisconsin Avenue.
Five kiosks on lamp poles will display three-part flip-sign animations of pedestrians, featuring short plays made in collaboration with Milwaukee directors, choreographers, writers, actors, and dancers.
Commissioned by the City of Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
In fabrication, to be installed in 2011.
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An
Open-Air Library and Farmer's Market Plaza
1998
for the South of
South Street Neighborhood.
Commissioned
by the Fairmount Park Art Association - New LandMarks Program,
Philadelphia, PA. 1998. Project on hold.
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