Work

Recent Exhibitions

  • sUgAR Gallery, “Stick it to Father” piece, Bentonville, AR, September – October 2009
  • The 2008 Northwest Arkansas Documentary Film Festival, Free, if only, November 15, 2008, Fayetteville, AR.
  • The 2008 Northwest Arkansas Documentary Film Festival, The Buffalo Flows, November 14, 2008, Fayetteville, AR. (Film by Larry Foley, with my animation and packaging design)
  • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, The Buffalo Flows, October 17, 2008, Hot Springs, AR. (Film by Larry Foley, with my animation and packaging design)
  • Broadcast Education Association, Beacon of Hope-The Story of the University of Arkansas, April 16-19, 2008, Las Vegas, NV. (Carpenter/Foley 2007, with my animation), “Best of Festival” award
  • Two-person exhibition, “Private Property,” Fine Arts Center Gallery, with sculptor Bethany Springer, February 20 – March 14, 2008.

More images of my work here.

Selected Work

Identification Friend or Foe RFID Mobile“Identification Friend or Foe RFID Mobile”
The “Identification Friend or Foe RFID Mobile” piece is an RFID-enabled upgrade to the traditional mobile, which hangs from the ceiling. The mobile is constructed using galvanized steel rod, brass brazing rods, UHF RFID tags, various 125Khz HF RFID tags, and thread. As the mobile slowly turns due to slow air currents in the gallery, the RFID tags mounted at the ends of the mobile’s arms come within range of the RFID reader, which then informs the computer to trigger a projection onto the wall of the gallery. Four different RFID tags, which natively sport a butterfly or double cross shape, each trigger a projection dealing with either privacy, religion, government or business. The projection shows an ever-updating grid of photographs constantly uploaded by people around the world, which visualize an aspect of the controversy. Each time a projection shows up on the wall it will be different. I chose a mobile style of installation since it, much like the expanding and moving implementation of the RFID technology, continues moving, in a way circulating around the normal consumer citizen, though slow enough to not gain much attention.

Stop Sign Preacher screen capture“Stop Sign Preacher”
Have you ever wanted to craft a stencil and then spray paint a message on a STOP sign, like the ones seen around town, such as “STOP Hammer time” or “STOP eating peat”? If you were too fearful of the law, or actually respect it, and have something to preach on a STOP sign that is just fighting to get out of you, here’s your chance. I’m giving you this opportunity to put your thoughts out there, on a STOP sign, for the whole world to see, not just the drivers who approach one certain intersection. Your preaching will be shown here in the gallery, as well as shown on the Stop Sign Preacher web site. It’s up to you whether you want to associate your name and home town with your “preaching,” a possibility not afforded by the various states’ departments of transportation with their analog STOP sign canvases.

Stick it to Father“Stick it to Father,” is a visualization of the ridiculous portrayal of fathers and husbands in sit-coms and advertising. It consists of the back hatch-door of a car with a twist on the typical stick-figure family that adorns the back of many mini-vans and station wagons. My version shows the father of the family as a ridiculous, slovenly character and vast subordinate to his capable, svelte wife who leads the family. I’ve tried to show the father as a lazy, sloppy, kid-like video-game player who is no role model for his children, especially his son, but is, as we’re often shown on television, just another man-child burden for the perfect mother to have to deal with. My wish is that husbands and fathers would be portrayed as sophisticated, intelligent people, as well as parents who are present, are the equal of their wives, and can be a role model to their children as a successful, hard-working, mentally sober and lovingly authoritative leader. Materials include Ford Focus hatch back and vinyl, die-cut stencil adhesives.

Raw Sewage stillThe “Raw Sewage” digital video projection piece demonstrates my concern for how women (and all humans) are increasingly viewed only as sexual objects, due to the accessibility of damaging and degrading material available on the Web. The piece displays an anonymous Web surfer typing in pornographic Web addresses and then viewing the content. The “dirty” content is, however, comprised of video footage of raw sewage and is set to an “adult movie-style” soundtrack. The gallery visitor is welcome to walk under the projection to get a feel of being coated in the effects of viewing emotionally and spiritually damaging material, symbolic of that which is accessible with unrestricted access by today’s impressionable youth in their formative years.

Presentations

  • "Catching Up to the 21st Century: Building an Interactive Design Program From Scratch," New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, June 7, 2007.
  • "The New Designers: Enabling Identity, Building Community", College Art Association, New York City, 2007
  • "I, Beast," NMConnect Exhibition in SecondLife, February 2007
  • "New NMC Site: You Are the Content," New Media Consortium Fall Regional Conference, San Antonio, 2006
  • "What the 2.0 Are We Talking About? Flickr Demo," New Media Consortium Fall Regional Conference, San Antonio, 2006
  • "Teaching Design in a Web 2.0 World," New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Cleveland, 2006
  • "RFID AfterEffects" workshop, Visual Communications area, School of Art, University of Arizona, May, 2006
  • "Radio Frequency Identification and ‘I, Beast’" gallery talk, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, at the International Digital Media and Arts Association 2006 conference
  • "Pachyderm 2.0 – It’s Here!" New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Honolulu, 2005
  • "ePortfolio: Presentation is Everything," New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Honolulu, 2005
  • "Architecting the Elephant: Software Architecture and User Interface Design for Pachyderm 2.0," Museums and the Web 2005, Vancouver, BC
  • "Power Struggle: Customized User Experience," New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Vancouver, BC, 2004
  • "ArtStream: Exhibiting Web Art" Siggraph, San Diego, 2003

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