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What Does It Mean To Be Human? found digital image, cropped 2010 Found on and cropped from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Human Origins webpage, this image suggests that we live in philosophically concise times.

Portal Video loop, 4:53 2009 Machinima and video art combine in this video projection portal. A spinning, shifting portal created from manipulated footage of a video-game fantasy world. When displayed, this piece is projected directly on a wall, with the image about 7 feet tall (the size of a door).

Vanish Video, 0:37 2008 A mentor/wizard character speaks his last words before succumbing, vanishing, and sending the viewer on their quest.

Five Years Video, 3:43 2007 The eschatology of the Mayans, Terrence McKenna, and David Bowie come together in the performance of "Five Years" on the date exactly five years before the predicted end of the world.

Bathrobe Druid Relearns the Lost Art of Sanctifying Sites Performance for Video, documented here as 1:30 of excerpts 2006 Bathrobe Druid, a self-discovering and self-undermining cleric, intuits his way through a ritual that he is inventing as he is implementing.

Ryan Murray, infinipus@gmail.com Curriculum Vitae | Artist Statement