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Requiem for the Netmakers,excerpts, 2011
Mixed Media Installation commissioned by the American Jewish Museum forthe exhibition, Too Shallow for Diving: the Twenty-First Century is TreadingWater. Materials include videomonitor, rebuilt stereo and digital photo frames. Media sources include theAssociated Press Archive, Library of Congress Archive, National Archives,Environmental Protection Agency Documerica project, photographs made availablethrough Creative Commons licenses, Present Richard Nixon's 1970 State of theUnion address, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by theClean Water Act of 1977. Collaborators: Frank Ferraro, sound sculptor andcomposer; Angelo Gatto, wood sculptor and stonemason.
Mixed Media Installation commissioned by the American Jewish Museum forthe exhibition, Too Shallow for Diving: the Twenty-First Century is TreadingWater. Materials include videomonitor, rebuilt stereo and digital photo frames. Media sources include theAssociated Press Archive, Library of Congress Archive, National Archives,Environmental Protection Agency Documerica project, photographs made availablethrough Creative Commons licenses, Present Richard Nixon's 1970 State of theUnion address, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended by theClean Water Act of 1977. Collaborators: Frank Ferraro, sound sculptor andcomposer; Angelo Gatto, wood sculptor and stonemason.
Earth Breathing through its Elements: Water excerpts, 2000
Commissionedby First Night Pittsburgh with additional funding given by PA Partners in theArts and University of Pittsburgh's Office of Research. Composed by co-author Eric Moe, the soundtrack contains sampled sounds of human breath and the body moving.
Commissionedby First Night Pittsburgh with additional funding given by PA Partners in theArts and University of Pittsburgh's Office of Research. Composed by co-author Eric Moe, the soundtrack contains sampled sounds of human breath and the body moving.
Installed in a traffic tunnel, aseries of video screens display the elements personified by an African drummeras Earth, a Kundalini yogi as Fire, an ariasinger as Air and a competitive swimmer as Water.
Commissionedby First Night Pittsburgh with funding from the Heinz Endowments andadditional, generous support from Kaufmann's Department Store. Collaborators: Ben Opie, composer on Theremin; Dr. Cary Simons, chiropractor; and Karen Hyleman, 3rd degree black-belt from the Oom Yung Doe school of martial arts.
In a traffictunnel, the movement of a martial artist is paired with its counterpart innature on multiple video screens.
