My work in video was a logical outgrowth of my cultural exposure to MTV in my formative years, and from my multimedia and digital imaging. Much of my rationale behind the use of video relates to the ability to subvert mass media using readily available technologies, the perception of existence through mediation, and the investigation of motion-based algorithmic art forms.
My first video was in collaboration with Jon Epstein and Sam of Haymarket Riot as an extension of Epstein and my work in Visual Sociology. The Haymarket Riot project was originally a series of videos that would introduce subversive content directly into the classroom through academic 'endorsements'.
The next pase of work ran parallel courses in that I was working in generative video (free-form computer-generated imagery), and subversive content with groups like RTMark and the YesMen (from which a given visual style will be evident).
However, after 2001, my belief that culture has taken a surreal/hysterical bent reflects itself in my video, as seen in the 8 Bits or lLess trilogy. And in addition, work like "The Pornogrphy of Suffering" show a more formalist approach to video art, something that I have never explored to date.
The
videos as shown to the right are not shown in chronological order, nor
are all of my collaborations shown overtly for conceptual reasons.
- One (For Larry, Andy, and Vito) (2005)
- Unca Funkypants (2005)
- Hatzanasumi (2005)
- Gilda the Golden Skeleton
(The Yes Men, 2005) - Cowboy Oil Fracas/Up
Came Oil (2004)
(The Yes Men, 2004) - Suburban Meditation (2004)
- Atari Video Breakdown (Live, Oculus Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA) (2003)
- Video in Two Bits or Less (LASM, 2003 - lost)
- The Corporate History of Slavery, 1700-2003 (2003)
- 8
Bits Or Less Live (VJ mix)
- 8b0L Live on the Access Grid, April, 2004
- Barrister's Gallery, January 2004
- Bowling Green University, Ohio, USA October, 2003
- Firehouse One, Houston TX, USA Sept. 2003
- 8Bits or Less:
Atari Video Music System
- i:Hanging10 at 170 bpm
- II:The night Negroponte and Marinetti came to dinner
- III:Robots Ate My Parents, and I'm None Too Pleased
- IV:One More Thing
- 8
Bits Or Less: Wristcam
video, 2000-2004
- I: 8 Bits Or Less
- II: A Wristful of Bits
- III: For a Few Bits More
- IV: Close Vision
- The Pornography of Suffering (2003)
- Gumbo Rica w/Guillermo
Gomez-Pena (2002)
- Vision of the New Saint
- Digital Naftafication
- Two Voodoo Chicks Sitting Around Talking
- Gone with the Wind Redux
- The New Miranda
- Corporate Ritual
- Ritornello
- Dealing with the Mentally ill
- One Language, Indivisible
- Body Politik: The Horrors of Guatamala
- Body Politik: Whiitewash
- Museum of Fetichized
Identity/Gumbo Rica (Installation)
W/ Guillermo Gomez-Pena (30 min. loop, lost)- LSU Reilly Theatre (2002)
- Tate London (Ex-Centris) (2003)
- Reburger (The Yes Men, 2003)
- Managerial Leisure Suit (The Yes Men, 2002)
- Terminal Time (1999)
- Bringing IT to YOU!/Bringing it ALL to YOU! (1999/2000)
- haymarket riot:
Web (1998-)
- I: The Voice of World Control
- II: The Engines of Truth
- SITO.org GRIDCOSM 200+10 (1998)
- John Cage's 3:15: the Music Video (1996)
- Amilith (Generative
Music Videos, 1998)
- Amilith
- Bitstreaming
- haymarket riot:
Machine(1996-8)
- I: Chew On This!
- II: Access Denied
- III: Deus Ex Machina
