####

live audio/visual improvisation
with composer & sound artist Sean Winters

dur 21:49 / Jan. 17 2020
"Brutal Realities"
Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO

Loops synthetic and material, electric and projected, #### is a live improvisation of sound and image on enjambment at play. All imagery is generated live through signal interruptions, either through running audio signal or projected 16mm film image into a circuit-bent video system and video-feedback loop.

#### was performed live as part of the Brutal Realities exhibition curated by Mark Amerika and Drew Austin which "exposes how contemporary artists confront their shifting nature of reality in digitally mediated culture... [and] invites you to question the world around you and rethink what it means to be alive at a time of global climate crisis, cross-generational existential angst, and information overload."

Murmur

audio-responsive VR installation and live performance with composer & sound artist Sean Winters

dur 19:44 / Jan. 3 - March 6 2020
"Great Expectations"
GOCA 121 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO

Murmur imagines an alternative approach to understanding the idea of land, its shape, and our relation to it. The topographical understanding of land is replaced by a topological one as it is stretched, twisted, and bent — any artistic deformation short of tearing. Murmur invites viewers into this process of questioning and exploration. Speak, hum, sing, mumble, murmur, shout or call to the form before you and explore how the sound is answered in the dancing shape of land in virtual space.

Murmur was performed and installed as part of the Great Expectations exhibition curated by Daisy McGowan, the fourth in a series of biannual survey exhibitions featuring emergent career artists living and working in a specific geographic area of Colorado.

Blue In Green

live audio/visual improvisation
with composer & sound artist Sean Winters

dur 21:48 / February 25, 2023
"Image // Sound // Word"
Evans School, Denver, CO

Blue In Green is a play on liner notes from Bill Evans and Miles Davis's Kind of Blue: "There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted stroke will destroy the line or break through the parchment. Erasures or changes are impossible. These artists must practice a particular discipline, that of allowing the idea to express itself in communication with their hands in such a direct way that deliberation cannot interfere. The resulting pictures lack the complex composition and textures of ordinary painting, but it is said that those who see well find something captured that escapes explanation." (Bill Evans)

Blue In Green was performed as part of the "Image // Sound // Word" exhibition curated by Joshua Ware and Sharifa Lafon, the first in an year-long program of multimedia artists, poets, and performers in Denver, Colorado.

Live Collab with eCussionist @ EAC Popup

live audio/visual performance and open workshop in collaboration with percussionist & producer eCussionist (aka Matthew Vorzimer)

dur 12:00:00 / March 22, 2018
Experimental Black Box Theatre
ATLAS Institute, Boulder, CO

Over the course of twelve hours, students and members of the Boulder (CO) community were able to join Kevin Sweet and Matthew Vorzimer for an open workshop and live performances featuring audio-responsive, circuit-bent video & beat making. From these performances came a series of videos. Big thanks to the Sean Winters for organizing the event, and to Michael Theodore, Gary McCrumb, and the Experimental Art Collective for their support.

More performances from eCussionist & K Sweet:

Anything On This Earth

live audio/visual performance with composer & sound artist Sean Winters

dur 22:44 / Nov. 2017
"Traverse: Synchresis"
Experimental Black Box Theatre
ATLAS Institute, Boulder, CO

Anything On This Earth was a collaborative rumination on Miles Davis, breaking and rebuilding, concrete and cosmic, and the image as organ. The piece came out of a number of studio sessions in which we experimented with using low frequency audio signals to selectively disrupt video projections that were composited using an anaglyphic stereograph technique from the late 1800’s. This breaking of one channel and/or the other (i.e. the image received by the right eye and not the left) would lead to interesting confusions in the perception of depth by the viewer as image elements in the fore-plane and back-plane would fluctuate or become reversible. For both the live performance and the installation version, audience members were given red/cyan viewing glasses.

Free Itself

live audio/visual performance composer with & sound artist Sean Winters

dur 24:00 / Dec. 2017
"Remix"
CMCI Studio, Boulder, CO

Free Itself was a live audio / visual improvisation incorporating audio responsive, circuit-bent analog video. Video was produced with a digital oscilloscope, circuit bent mixer, and a video feedback loop.

Twinsome Minds:
Recovering 1916 in Images and Stories

Multimedia performance in collaboration with Sheila Gallagher and Richard Kearney

dur 54:00 / Jan. 23, 2016 - Oct. 15, 2017
Premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin Ireland

Collaborative multimedia performance recovering and recontextualizing stories of the 1916 Easter Rising that have been lost to militarist memorial. Twinsome Minds premiered at the Abbey National Theatre of Ireland in January 2016 as part of the ‘Ireland 2016: Centenary Programme’ and was made possible through funding from the Abbey Theatre and Culture Ireland.

Exhibitions:

  • Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland (01.23.16)
  • Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (03.06.16)
  • Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Lisbon, Portugal (03.08.16)
  • Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France (03.11.16)
  • Irish Arts Center, New York, NY (03.22.16)
  • Quinnipiac Performing Arts Center, North Haven, CT (04.04.16)
  • Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MA (04.29.16)
  • The Nerve Centre, Derry, Northern Ireland (06.09.16)
  • The Belfast Book Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland (06.10.16)
  • Muintir Na Tire Hall, Murroe, Co. Limerick, Ireland (06.13.16)
  • Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (06.23.16)
  • Lincoln Theatre, Damariscotta, ME (10.07.16)
  • Drive-by Projects, Watertown, MA (10.27.16)
  • St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada (11.04.16)
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (12.09.16)
  • Smithsonian Museum of American History, D.C. (10.15.17)