opening night in San Jose

Check out these photos from Garnet Hertz. ------> opening night

Return to San Jose

We're working hard getting everything done for the festival. It's been a really good experience so far with only a few hitches.

ZERO1's themed Build You Own World festival and exhibition September 16 - 19 in San Jose.

Out of the Garage Into the World

wind coil sound flow at 01SJ Biennial September 4 - 19 2010.












Our neighbors Gift Horse and Empire Drive -in









Chris builds our own table saw with the circular saw and our work bench.



Our off cut bowling game prototype.

August 2010 news

wind coil sound flow at 01SJ Biennial September 4 - 19 2010.

I will be presenting my kinetic sound sculpture wind coil sound flow at the San Jose City Hall Rotunda as part of ZERO1's themed Build You Own World festival and exhibition September 16 - 19 at San Jose California. In addition I will be participating in the Out of the Garage Into the World program (a part of the festival)September 4 -15 with building the installation components at the South Hall, a large convention space open to the public as part of the exhibition.

Curator Steve Dietz describes the festival here---> podcast .



Shadow Machine performance in Vancouver. September 23- October 31

After rocking the festival in San Jose, I'll be zipping back to Vancouver B.C to participate in 5 weeks of workshopping, rehearsals and performances with Peter Courtemanche, Carol Sawyer and Alvin Erasga Tolentino.

for more info -----> co.erasga.dance.

more yard

Prototype bench I made for the wind coil sound flow installation at the 2010 01SJ Biennial Build You Own World exhibition in San Jose. The basic idea is to build some places to sit for folks that want to check out the installation for a period of time. The design is based on the angles, materials and construction methods used to make the installation.
This bench is going into the back yard garden.

Return to San Jose....I'm in the Yukon now

I arrived in Dawson City Yukon this morning. I think I'm channeling the spirit of the stampeders that travelled from California to get here during the Klondike Gold Rush. More on that later. This is what happened last week.

Back in the summer of 2006, I went to San Jose California to take in the ISEA 2006 symposium and the beginnings of a new festival, 01 San Jose. I took in as much as I could of the city and all the festival and symposium activity seceretly hoping I would someday go back and participate. This is what I posted back then. blog entry
And now I returned to San Jose and yes! I will be installing a scaled up in size version of my sound installation wind coil sound flow at the 2010 01SJ Biennial: Build You Own World.






Unbelievably, I went ice skating at a skating rink installed under the palm trees in front of the San Jose Museum of Art. I think the last time I skated was 1981 or so.








The venue for wind coil sound flow will be the interior of the Rotunda at the new city hall.

January heating up

In order to beat the January doom/blues, I like to make myself as busy as possible at this time of the year. The heat is on! Besides a pile of paper work and the total reorganizing of my studio, I have the following to keep me going until February.

i'll be heading to San Jose California for a couple of days to participate in meetings and check out the venue for my future participation in the 2010 01 San Jose Biennial with the theme Build Your Own World. I'm really looking forward and quite exited to be building my work wind coil sound flow as part of Out of the Garage. I can really relate to the themes and everything having to do with this so far has been very good.

On January 16 I'll be helping out with this. Video Pool will be participating in the international celebration of Art's Birthday

The next morning I'll be jumping on a plane and heading to the sub-arctic climes of the Yukon where I'll be participating in the residency program at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture.

At the end of the month my audio piece 'The Road to El Dorado' will be paired up as a soundtrack for a short film at The 8 Fest in Toronto.