Spending lots of time in the studio these days. Working on many pieces that continue my still very very new Distill Life series (using mostly machinima video from Second Life and combining that with prints and drawings), some Compressionist prints, and a kind of mixed reality minimalist video installation called Given Time that I am very excited about (doing avatar design with my assistant now). Have also been playing with openFrameworks a lot lately (updating my interactive pieces built in Director in the early 2000s – so they run on new machines – while learning its idiosyncrasies). Can I just say “awesome”? Am about done with stuttering “2.0,” which hasn’t worked on any machine I have owned since 2003; it feels so good to see the piece again! Coming up: elicit, enter:hektor, and then a new work; all four will be released as “Body Language,” a suite of interactive installations, some time in the next year. Much of the more object- and print-based stuff will feature in upcoming shows in South Africa and on the East Coast in early 2010.
Hooray for stuff and things! Yay art!
