Making You, Making Others
Video series, 2015-16.
In collaboration with Emily Martinez as Anxious to Make.
Description
The two videos, Making You (2015) and Making Others (2016) are a promotional video/performance collaboration between an algorithm, a pair of artists, and a gig-economy-spokesperson-for-hire. In Making You, a commissioned voice-over actor named VoiceOverPete reads a script generated from the Google Suggest API with auto-derived completions to the phrase, "How to make yourself ____". Making Others is the companion piece to Making You, and follows the same format, completing the phrase "How to make others _____". Both of these videos are part of an ongoing series about the sharing economy that asks: how can we use the sharing economy as a resource for developing new forms of critical art practice – as a space for performance, production, collaboration or resistance?
Exhibitions + Screenings
“Anxious to Make,” Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN. Jan 4 - Feb 2 2020.
“Entanglement,” HER Environment series, Yards Gallery, Chicago, IL. Jan 26 - Feb 15, 2019.
“LIFESPANS,” NEoN Digital Arts Festival 2018, Dundee, Scotland. Nov 7 2018.
“The Gig is Up,” V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Nov 25 - 18 Dec 2016.
“Side Gig: Anxious To Make,” B4BEL4B, Oakland, CA. Nov 19 - Dec 15 2016.
“The Institute for New Feeling / FELT BOOK screening,” MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. Sep 17 2016.
“Felt Book Exhibition,” werkartz, Los Angeles, CA. May 7 - 24 2016.
“Document V,” The Luminary, St. Louis, MO. Mar 25 - May 20 2016.
“The Institute for New Feeling / FELT BOOK,” EMMEDIA, Calgary, Canada. Feb 11 2016.
“Past and Future Conditions,” A1 Lab Arts, Knoxville, TN. Feb 5 - 10 2016.
“Screengrab7: Resistance,” Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia. Dec 19 2015 - Feb 26 2016.
Awards
Screengrab New Media Art Award Shortlist, Townsville, Australia, 2016.
Press + Publications
Always Already Podcast | KQED Arts | East Bay Express | To Make a Public, INCA Press, 2017, pp. 50-56 | Screengrab7, Gallery Services, 2015, pp. 14, 32-33.
Making You installed in A1 Lab Arts in Knoxville, TN (2016).
Making You installed in Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville, Australia (2016).