future television



A live video performance set in a melancholy world of virtual office work. It employed live green screen compositing, a sci-fi stage set, and a curated collection of animations to explore a mashed-up future of television. Centered around a narrative that delved into the frustrations of a man working alone in the woods, I combined live music, digital slideshows, and short animations by Allison Schulnik, Jim Trainor, David Daniels, Nate Boyce, and others into an electroluminescent piece of live cinema. In total, I performed this in 25 venues across 7 countries.

The performance has since become a single-channel animation called "Faketrap". It takes the perspective of a generic avatar lost in a dark, low-polycount wilderness. Through a disjointed dreamlike structure, visions of violence and decay punctuate a claustrophobic struggle with lost control. Created as part of the Impakt Works residency program in Utrecht, NL.

Watch it here.

PERFORMANCE HISTORY
-2010- Joe Crowley Theater. Reno, NV
-2010- Lobot. Oakland, CA
-2010- The Silent Movie Theater. Los Angeles, CA
-2010- Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. Santa Barbara, CA
-2010- The Soap Factory. Minneapolis, MN
-2010- The Nightingale. Chicago, IL
-2010- Spark. Syracuse, NY
-2010- Wildfire. Ithaca, NY
-2010- Sugar City. Buffalo, NY
-2010- AS220. Providence, RI
-2010- Spectacle. Boston, MA
-2010- Cannytrophic Design Expo. Boston, MA
-2010- Sounds from the Other City. Manchester, UK
-2010- Institute of Contemporary Arts. London, UK
-2010- WORM. Rotterdam, NL
-2010- FIT. Copenhagen, DK
-2010- Cinema Nova. Brussels, BE
-2010- Scheld'apen. Antwerp, BE
-2010- Extrapool. Nijmegen, NL
-2010- OCCII. Amsterdam, NL
-2010- FLO:P. Venice, IT
-2010- Abandon Normal Devices Festival. Manchester, UK
-2010- L'Hybride. Lille, FR
-2010- B32. Maastricht, NL