“The Shaping of Social (media?)”

Presentation Summary:
1: Social media saturated: Online
2: Heads down society: Offline
3: Culture of connecting: Mental
4: Participatory Play: Physical

“recycleD bin”

I took a furniture class during this past winter quarter. I ended up designing a series of three containers made entirely out of plastic grocery bags, fused together over a cardboard mold. They were well received, and I am in the process of getting my name and idea out there in the hopes of creating more for retail sale. It’s a unique concept that uses up something nobody wants and nearly everybody has. Each set of three bins uses 300 plastic bags. 500 sets, and entire ton of plastic would be saved from the landfill. Pretty cool, huh?

“The Adventures in Neveryon”

How a gay, black writer of sword and sorcery fiction and professor at Temple University cured my creative block by taking me through Derrida, Foucault, Sontag and other people much smarter and more educated than myself in about 1500 pages.

“Pelops and the Ivory Prosthetic”

I will present a series of new paintings, with details of the construction of wooden hyper surfaces accompanied by very unpleasant sounds and the seemingly sensible readings of automatic poems.

“You Don’t Have to Travel Far...”

Over the years I have taken a number of photographs of amazing living things without traveling any farther than my own yard. These include our only native marsupial (gestation period is 12 days), an assassin bug emerging from its shed exoskeleton (like a lobster or crab), a tomato horn worm that “hosts” a wasp’s eggs (the caterpillar is the eventual food source), a monarch butterfly chrysalis that mysteriously appeared in our bedroom, our largest native spider (the size of a saucer) with egg case, strange fungi (they’re only the tip of the fungal iceberg) and others. My hope is that after the presentation people will see their surroundings in a radically new way.

The Process of Digital Furniture

Bones