4:30pm Friday, July 14 

SOU Theatre Building Room 227

Matters Dark and Luminous (2023) is an environment for telling stories through interactive sound, generative animation, and simple puppetry. It is a diminutive stage for mixed reality performances, a concert hall for miniature instruments, and an intimate twenty-first century campfire.

Artist Statement

Matters Dark and Luminous (2023) is an environment for telling stories through interactive sound, generative animation, and simple puppetry. It is a diminutive stage for mixed reality performances, a concert hall for miniature instruments, and an intimate twenty-first century campfire. I am a trans-disciplinary artist with equal backgrounds in the performing arts (music composition, technology, improvisation, and performance) and visual arts (interactive art, video art, digital fabrication, kinetic sculpture). I craft performative relationships between non-human systems (machines, computers, processes) and human experience. I utilize emerging media to develop new forms of meaning and to provoke the exploration of self in a technologically saturated environment. This results in work that constructs “the machine” in a variety of guises: as a source of false magic and illusion, as a vehicle for participation, and as a poetic form of surrogate communal memory. Time, narrative, humor, and illusion are all central tools in this process.