Just a dead mouse

Between going to an opening in Chelsea and the Radar Magazine launch I came across this mouse...and I found it one of the more compelling visuals of the evening. (hence the opening I attended will not be named)

A Bicycle is Born - a film by Daniel Leeb

Our friend Daniel Leeb, film maker and bicyclist extraordinare, recently created a series of films for Puma. Check them out at http://www.puma.com/icycle/

We've Started a Street Style Blog

Have you ever noticed that Europeans seem to have a better sense of style than Americans? Maybe because they're not as label conscious. Maybe because they're just...better than us? Hells no! We decided to start this blog to prove ourselves wrong! Check it out and tell us what you think. StyleDefined

Innocence + Monsters

We don't know how to describe what comes out of Katya's head...these are stills from videos. But we also have silkscreens...and tote bags...and this is only the beginning of something fabulous...

28 Days of Creative Rehab

28 Days began in December 2007. We were tired and creatively fried at the time so in an effort to rejuvenate went on "the program". Our program consisted of creating a new postcard sized piece every day for 28 days. The only requirement was that it say "wish you were here". Look for a special website this fall where you can custom order your own.

The Opening of Sky and Sea

The Opening of Sky and Sea was the theme of a fashion show produced by designers Brooke Priddy and Kelledy Francis. As the art directors for this production we created a dynamic visual environment which complimented their collections. With videos on the walls, on the backs of ushers, and on a large helium balloon we created over 12 original pieces for the show.

Transient

A video created from the manipulation of sequential stills of the city captured over several weekends. With music by Sawako Kato or Philip Glass or random noise depending on our mood.

Do we ever really visually process any great City, especially one like New York, dominated by its verticality? Transient gathers visual snapshots at a rapid pace on rapid transit, in cabs, on foot, mirroring the rapidity with which we see/don’t see what’s in or not quite in our line of vision. Even in stillness, so much interplay presents.

Toxic Flowers

Toxic Flowers is a series of delicate, highly saturated, time-based paintings in continuous stages of bloom and decay.

Reflecting and reacting to the increased anxieties in a post 9/11 world, each one evolves out of 1950’s source footage of destruction and disaster pushed to the point of abstraction. Where terror levels are reported in color codes on a daily basis, the flowers loop continuously - as ephemeral as fear, as elusive as beauty, each suddenly explodes then dissipates, disappears, like a mirage, like the dust after an explosion, leaving us to wonder in its absence when it will next present.

Together on a wall, embedded in a bank of monitors, they inform one another, becoming the new color code of fear, using the Technicolor reality of when the push to Empire began.

XX Magazine Issue #2

The second issue of our online 'zine featured Avantika Bawa, Elastibrand, Kim Johnson, and Faye Driscoll. You can check it out here

A Perpetual Instruction in Cause and Effect

In response to the wars of today the manic obsessive frenetic pace of this piece, with its’ overwriting of surfaces, reflects the deadly aftermath when cultures explode. We took scraps of footage shot years earlier from the aftermath of the Bosnian conflict - an empty tree-lined road leading to a destroyed mansion in the middle of nowhere; a scarred interior scrawled with graffiti of successive victors; a massive apartment complex, gutted with the wash still hung out on balconies - and scrubbed them into an edit far quicker than humanly possible using Jitter software/programming to capture the violence. This was set against a soundscape of building demolitions and a deteriorating repetition of Fred Astaire’s insouciant version of “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”, undercutting the real cruelty of war. The architecture, though ravaged, remains…people are nowhere to be seen.

This can be presented as either a 4 channel or single channel work and was featured in drain magazine #9

XX Magazine Issue #1

The first of (so far) two issues of an online magazine featuring interviews with artist and designers we like. This issue featured Cas Holman, Knowear, and Troika Ranch.

Bubblicious

Originally created for the "Play" series at Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta, the protagonist of this video gets caught up in her own creation. It has gone on to be shown in such diverse places as Cox Communications Indie Showcase and the Sarai MediaLab in New Delhi India. Starring Kelledy Francis with original music by Emmy award winning composer Bruce Frazier.
View it here.

Smoking Study

Large scale prints initially created by programming randomized pixelation with Processing. A breakdown and degeneration of the image created through the movement of the mouse across the screen. Images blown up to 4 feet x 3 feet.

Barbie is for Real

A personal project which puts Barbie in the "real world". She is the girl who works at the mall and takes the bus and believes what she reads in the fashion magazines. She's painfully sincere in her desire to live up to the ideals of capitalism. Large scale prints were created as part of the Brooklyn/Barbie project and shown at ART/NY South Oxford Space and the Ohio Theater NYC

Portraits In Landscape

This series plays with the idea of the portrait or digital snapshot. How can motion, random or otherwise alter our assumptions of portraiture? Created with Processing and featured on the Processing.net website.

Self Talking

A collaboration between choreographer, video artists, and monologist, Self Talking looks to explore our present moment self mediated by our past and informing our future. The camera choreographs the space and in turn is choreographed by the movement of the dancer in the initial duet. The disembodied voice of a narrator observer (watching the manipulated performance from a remote location) provides the counterpoint. Playing with the inherent 8 second delay of technology, the collaborators are caught in a time-space hiccup. In collaboration with Kelly Gottesman and programmed with Isadora Software.

Mother Tongue

We created video in collaboration with choreographer Tami Stronach for her autobiographical evening length piece. This has been produced at PS 122, Dance Theater Workshop, and Willamsburg Art Nexus in NYC
Fragments of memory, visually (dis)located then digitally manipulated 16mm film formed installations, placing choreographer Tami Stronach at the archaeological “dig site” she grew up on in pre-Revolutionary Iran. Interaction between dancer and image prove as intoxicating and elusive as memory itself.