The idea for this project arose from my desire to build a storytelling device with emergent characteristics. The machine performs the acts of listening and remembering by manipulating the spatial and temporal characteristics of its sonic surroundings.

Comprised of an array of six speakers and six microphones, the machine hangs from the ceiling. With its microphones listening to the space, its speakers transmit what has been heard, generating a continuous sonic feedback loop. Occasionally, the machine records the sounds being transmitted through its system and stores these samples on a computer hard drive. These stored samples are played back … Continue Reading

The Higher Men, an interactive new media installation, explores literate ways of knowing with contemporary thinkers – philosophers, new media theorists and filmmakers.

Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Nancy, Larry Rickels, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Elias Sulieman, Gregory Ulmer, and Slavoj Žižek appear on a wall of screens speaking at once, creating an almost incomprehensible cacophony, until a viewer engages one of them. Each thinker reappears with the same thought or a different one “but it’s not repetition” as new juxtapositions change the context of their ideas.

Upon first entering the room the viewer is dwarfed by the big screen … Continue Reading