My C-Print included in Wassaic Winter Benefit

This animation still from Kingdom 5KR, as a DiBond mounted C-print, was recently included in the Wassaic Project Winter Benefit raffle at the Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY (February 2016). Kingdom 5KR is the newest of my series of short animations using ready-made 3D objects – boats, cars, pills, booze, pretty people – as metonymies for leisure and privilege. Kingdom 5KR is a super yacht owned by Al-Waleed bin Talal, member of the Saudi Royal Family; the boat is named for his investment company The Kingdom Holding Company, his lucky number and the initials of his children. Waleed purchased the boat from Trump, who called it the Trump Princess. The yacht was originally built in 1980 for Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, and named for his daughter Nabilia. It was used in the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again and referred to as the Flying Saucer.

My Animation + Pyrite at Happenland, Radiator Gallery

Radiator Arts, Happenland

The wonderful Eva Davidova invited me to show my new animation as part of Happenland, a show she curated with Almudena Baeza Medina at Radiator Arts. They also included Pyrite, an AR app made by Mitch Miller and Phoenix Toews with my help back in 2011. Happenland opened on Oct. 30th and will run through Dec. 11, 2015. It is a wonderful show that includes lots of great artists including Cliff Evans and Marina Zurkow. We are going to do a talk at the gallery on Dec. 10th.

My animation included in the Last Brucennial, March-April

My new short animation, Countach Belfort (2m), is included in the Last Brucennial (2014), 837 Washington Street. The piece is a sketch – my attempt to think through my distress about the ease with which white collar criminals, like Jordan Belfort, free themselves from sentencing and restitution. In the Brucennial, my animation hangs right below a work by Carla Gannis. Hi Carla.

Video: Blessed Buckets as part of Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers at Kunsthall Galapagos Dumbo Feb. 10, 2014

Video, recorded by Carlton Bright, of a night of performance by Group 6.0. My piece includes the superb Blessed Buckets performing My Buckets Got a Hole in It and God Bless the Child on violin and mandolin. My animation re Jordan Belfort accompanied them but is off to the side. Carlton collages it in at one point. Thanks Carlton. Thanks Buckets. Thanks Jody for inviting me to contribute.

Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers for the New Age

I am happy to report that I will be part of ‘Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers for the New Age’ – an evening of 6-minute performances by the 6.0 Group this Monday, February 3 at Kunsthalle Galapagos. My contribution will be a short animated riff on Jordan Belfort’s new stand-up routine. I will be accompanied by a musical performance by the Blessed Buckets. I am excited.

Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers for the New Age
Monday, February 3, 2014
Kunsthalle Galapagos
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201

This Red Door Presents:

An evening of nine six-minute multi-media performances by the 6.0 Group members: Jody Wood, Karl Erickson, Jamie Diamond, Kimberly Ruth, Elisabeth Smolarz, Rachel Stevens, Tamar Ettun and Meredith Drum.

Participating artists met and fell in love during the LMCC Swing Space residency on Governors Island; the 6-minute classy yet windy boat trip to the island initiated the 6- minute structure for the performance.

Article about Terrestrial Transmissions show at U of Virginia.

Lydia Moyer wrote a smart article about the show she curated at the University of Virginia that included my short science fiction video, The Double. She says: Of particular interest to me was the theme of transmission—the attempts to communicate with some kind of other. Of course transmission is not an uncommon theme in video art, having roots in broadcast or signal transmissions. But these transmissions seemed different, more human–coming out of a deeply held desire to communicate with something outside the self, be it men or plants or the great unknown. Read here.