Exhibitions, Commissions & Public Art

2021


The Robot Builder


Site specific Public Art Installation for Robert Morris University.


Mixed media, custom electronics. 9'w, 8'tall, 4'd


2021



The Lost Sound Search Engine IV

Commission for Vinyl Me Please  record company


Fourth in a series of machines able to detect and amplify the faintest sound vibrations left on air molecules made up to 80 years in the past.


Custom commission / experimental.


20 of the 785 entries that allowed their message to be shared before the time capsule opening in 2120.

A second short featurette will be released in the coming years.

2019

*Exhibit opens in 100 years on June 7, 2120


The Pittsburgh Time Capsule

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust


THANK YOU to everyone who participated in The Pittsburgh Time Capsule. The final count was 785 entries (over 1,200 individual people in the booth). 


Concept: Over the course of 10 days an automated machine I built collected video messages from the public that were stored in two time capsules (one entrusted to the Mayor’s Office of Pittsburgh and the other with The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust). Anyone was welcome to leave any message they felt would be important for an audience to hear in the year 2120.  


Each participant had 1 minute to leave their message for this exhibit. During the collection process participants were asked if they would allow for their submission to be used for a short highlight reel to be released to the public. Participants that did not want their submissions seen until 2120 were only seen by me in the editing process.




2018

Luminous Cactus
Scottsdale Public Art

Eight ‘low-poly’ faceted cactus forms, inspired by native species in Arizona. Visitors to this piece were able to create their own unique light and sound patterns or complete chaos if they liked.

2017 - 2018
 
The Artwork Forge II
 
Simulates the experience of commissioning an original artwork by compiling data from your personal preferences, social media, news trends and celebrated masterworks of art.
 
 The Artwork Forge was co-commissioned by Palo Alto Public Art and the Palo Alto Art Center. It will be on display through March 2018 in front of City Hall.
2016

The Archivist: I Will Not Let You Fade Away

Arrow Five Years Out Art Challenge Contest Winner
 
The idea behind The Archivist is that five years from now we will have technology to affordably build these reliable robots. Hundreds of these units would be assigned a human counterpart. For a year they shadow their subjects as unobtrusively as possible and record their daily activities. A complete audio and visual record would be taken. Aspects would include work life, religious and political views, interactions with friends, families and colleagues, sleep schedules, meals eaten, movies cried through, sunsets watched, everything.

The Archivist in essence forms a short documentary or time capsule of that person and the time they lived in. These detailed records would be compiled into a searchable database. Once that person has passed away, their story is uploaded to a cloud server for the world to have access to for eons.

Researchers in the future may stumble upon a person's story decades from now through simple keyword searches that overlap a segment of that person's recorded life. No person is too mundane not to be remembered. No one should be forgotten.

2015

Fraley's Robot Repair

The Pittsburgh International Airport Branch

A shop stuck in a time warp -- a scene from an alternate reality. Simultaneously in the 1950s and the future. The shop's owners seem to have gone on some sort of extended vacation, leaving projects half finished and customers waiting.


2015

 The Artwork Forge

Simulates the experience of commissioning an original artwork by compiling data from your personal preferences, social media, news trends and celebrated masterworks of art. The result is a textbook-perfect work. But does it have soul? What does a human bring to works of art that a machine will never be able to produce?

The Artwork Forge was co-commissioned by Scottsdale Public Art and Arizona State University: Emerge.
2014

The Lost Sound Search Engine 3

Displayed in Salina, KS, Indianapolis, IN and Pittsburgh, PA.

An interactive sculpture. This machine purportedly is able to find the faintest remnants of sounds floating through the atmosphere. The sounds could be dozens of years old and may have traveled hundreds of miles from their source. Once located, it amplifies these sounds and plays them back for us to hear once again.

In a way, it's a sort of 'sonic time machine'.
2014

Contrails

Installed at 900 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA

Inspired by the oft overlooked artwork of criss-crossing lines 20,000' above us.
2014

The Secret Life of Robots
Solo exhibition.

Shown in Pittsburgh, PA and West Liberty, WV.

An unpolished look into the unseen and often mundane lives of robots. Made possible through the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
2010


Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Waiting room area.
2009


Robots in Flight
Belle Art Program: Scottsdale Public Art

Scottsdale, Arizona
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