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Lipstick Enigma
2010
At the Harris Engineering Center at UCF in Orlando.

A sentence-generating machine that combines the languages of advertising and engineering.
This 10' long display uses 1200 motors to send 1200 resin lipsticks through a grid. The mechanical lipstick pixels form the words.

Commissioned by Florida's Art in State Buildings Program.

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Limited Edition
2011
At the Brightwater Treatment System, Seattle, WA.

An interactive, generative public work about our limited natural resources and individual choice.

Commissioned by 4Culture.

Just installed! More photos to come.

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Pedestrian Drama
2011
along Milwaukee's East Wisconsin Avenue.

This piece is still in process! More news and photos to come.

Five kiosks on lamp poles 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.

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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 KCLS, Seattle WA.

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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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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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Small Kindnesses, Weather Permitting
2004
For the Hiawatha Light Rail Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

35 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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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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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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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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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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Your Voices
1997
For Walton High School, Bronx, NY.

12 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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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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