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Following a successful five week run at Ruffin Gallery in 2014, I put together some video documentation. The video shows the four main visual pieces of the installation, along with the audio component, as they appear and sound at different times of day.

I am very excited to announce that a large scale solo exhibit of my piece, WoodEar, will show at Ruffin Gallery from August 29th to October 3rd, 2014. The August 29th opening, which will run on a Final Friday from 5:30 – 7:30, will include live choreography with multiple dancers directed by UVa Choreographer Katie Schetlick. The installation will also include new digital and fixed media pieces with significant contributions by my collaborator, New York-based sculptor and video artist, Jennifer Lauren Smith. The piece will

On May 1st, 2014, Charlotteville NPR affiliate, WVTF, broadcast a story by local radio producer, Sandy Hausman, about WoodEar. A transcript of the story and the original audio are available for reading/listening at the WVTF website: http://wvtf.org/post/wood-ear-exploring-feelings-trees

WoodEar made its first appearance in Charlottesville in late April, 2014 with a show at the The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative. For this installation, I used two projections – one a piece I had created for the Pace show, and the other a new piece that runs in the Chrome using Javascript and the HTML5 Canvas element. While it wasn’t a heavily trafficked show, it did attract the attention of a WVTF, a local NPR affiliate, which did a short radio

In late 2012 I was interviewed by artist, critic, and editor of Neural magazine, Alessandro Ludovico. We discussed my early net pieces through my latest, WoodEar. While you need a subscription to access the entire magazine, you can download a PDF of the interview here.

Continuing our collaborations, I created a soundtrack for Jennifer’s installation film, Present Day, earlier this year. The film is intended for a large vertical projection. Per Jennifer’s description: “Present Day depicts the silhouette of a present-day shaman performing a sequence of movements beneath a crescent moon. His routine is expressive and random and it becomes apparent that his dance is not grounded in a specific cultural tradition but is more a mash-up of idiosyncratic references. As the routine ensues, the

A tree is a biological network: roots gathering water and nutrients, leaves using sunlight to produce food, and phloem and xylem running throughout to move water and nutrients across the structure. WoodEar attempts to extend the dynamic qualities of this biological network into the digital network. A series of sensors attached to the tree stream data on the state of its environment – light, temperature, air pressure, and wind. This live data is merged with photos and recordings of the tree’s immediate