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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 philosophically unanswerable questions provided by philosophers from around the world.
Commissioned by Kings County Library System, Seattle WA.

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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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Small Kindnesses, Weather Permitting
2004

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. For the new Hiawatha Light Rail Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In collaboration with Scharff Weisberg, Steven Johnson of Rainville-Carlson, XYZ Audio Visual, ParallelDevelopment, and over 100 Minnesotans.

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Council.

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Carrying On
2004
A 1200 foot frieze depicting silhouettes of New Yorkers, made of of steel and stone, embedded in the platform walls of the Prince Street subway station, NYC.
In collaboration with Edward del Rosario.
Commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit.
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The Medium
2002
A constantly transforming live-feed video conversation. For Murphy Hall, University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, MN.

Commissioned by the Art on Campus Program.

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Your Voices
1997
12 interactive boxes in the school lobby that result in printed entries in the student activities newsletter. For Walton High School, Bronx, NY.

Commissioned by Percent for Art,
New York Dept. of Cultural Affairs.

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Limited Edition
2005
An interactive, generative public work about our limited natural resources and individual choice.
For the Brightwater Treatment System outside Seattle, WA.
Commissioned by 4Culture.

in fabrication, to be installed in 2011

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prototype proposal drawing
(one unit of forty)

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Lipstick Enigma
with Franklyn Berry
2008
Another sentence-generating machine, like Impersonator.
This one, for the Engineering School at USF in Orlando, FL., uses lipstick cases. Motors and magnets turn the lipsticks through holes in a grid to make mechanical pixels that create the letterforms.

In fabrication.

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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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proposal drawing, one of five kiosks

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Proposal for Milwaukee's East Wisconsin Avenue
2009

Five kiosks on lamp poles will display three-part flip-sign animations of pedestrians, featuring short plays by Milwaukee writers, actors and dancers. Commissioned by the City of Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

In fabrication, to be installed in 2010.

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proposal drawing

proposal for an airport
2005
A 16 foot flip-disc sign shows ten different photgraphic animations of baggage follies. A proposal for an airport.

Not yet commissioned.

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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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