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A Broadcast Called Life Digital Video, 10:40 2010 This garbled broadcast is mistakenly interpreted as an anthropological study of a single species, suggesting a peculiar and complex anatomical structure and reproductive practice. The visual chaos of the corrupted digital data becomes sensual as the sexual tension between David Attenborough and Oprah Winfrey comes to a head. This work was created for Suzie Silver and Encyclopedia Destructica's Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality collection.
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What Does It Mean To Be Human? 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.
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Balsam of Life An attempt is made to redeem the power of the lava lamp by bottling its magical fluids as the Balsam of Life. Things get messy. This documents the performance that created the Balsam of Life sculptural artifact, which can be seen on the sculpture page.
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Portal 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).
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Vanish A mentor/wizard character speaks his last words before succumbing, vanishing, and sending the viewer on their quest. | |||||
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Five Years 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.
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Bathrobe Druid Relearns the Lost Art of Sanctifying Sites Bathrobe Druid, a self-discovering and self-undermining cleric, intuits his way through a ritual that he is inventing as he is implementing.
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Ryan Murray, infinipus@gmail.com Curriculum Vitae | Artist Statement
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