The Penrose Library at Denver University was recently renovated and now a majority of DU’s books are stored offsite. To checkout a book now, one goes to the library, finds the book on a computer, requests it, and then waits a few days to receive it. Along with this move …
Blank pages were removed from the 400+ used books purchased for the show Materials On Reserve. This included colored endsheets, pages stamped “Discarded”, and original checkout card pages. From these pages eight books were created. Each book is unique and is bound to the smallest page in the book, allowing …
By sifting through the digital Google versions of the 400+ books that were purchased for the show Materials On Reserve, I found four pages that depict anomalies or errors in the scanning and digitization of books into ebooks. The prints are complemented by physical copies of the scanned books.
A barcode scanner is attached to two receipt printers. The books in the exhibition Materials On Reserve can be scanned and two receipts are printed. Each receipt contains information on the book and a QR code links to the digital version of the book. One receipt is for the viewer, …
Twenty four analog gauges track the frequency of word usage on the internet. Installed at the San Diego Museum of Art as part of Beyond the Banner the summer salon show. The terms: Affiliate Attribution Auction Audience Banner Campaign Conversions Demographics Distribution Engagement Hits Impressions Inventory Premium Promotions Remnant Segmentation Sessions …
I recently finished a paper discussing my last series of works in the context of melancholy in the digital age. The abstract …
In 1799 Robert John Thornton released the first installment of the book “The Temple of Flora.” This book was the first large …
In 1865 Wild Bill killed Dave Tutt in the town square in Springfield, MO. This quick-draw style duel was recorded and portrayed …
Theodore Low De Vinne is one of the fathers of book publishing in America. He was one of the nine founders of the …
In 2010, I spent six months traveling the United States in a mobile research lab, visiting over fifty libraries, museums, and archives …
Dripping directly out of the structure of the building, this piece is in a continuous state of oxidation. Nozzles at the top of …
World Conspiracy represents an individual’s conception of the world. This piece was constructed through the analysis of over 10,000 documents saved by …
At the Teen Studio in the New Children’s Museum, visitors participated in “America’s View of the World” by tearing out newspaper articles …
Click here to go to the Data Graphing Interface Last year I wrote a data mining application that can automatically gather term …
This show captures how America views the world as seen through the lens of the American media. All data was collected from …
Command Center replays the last 150 years of history, by showing the frequency of terms used in the New York Times. Over …
A card catalog designed to hold all of the songs on my iPod, 7,390 songs. Each song is cataloged on a single …
Like an insect trapped in amber or a museum jewel trapped behind glass, an orange was traped in a cube of resin. …
The piece is attached via a network cable to the internet where it monitors news and search results for “paris hilton” and …
A collaboration by Fame Theory. While looking through the data collected for famegame.com, we began to realize that some big name artists …
A collaboration with Fame Theory. Fame Game began as an investigation into the growth of celebrity in our media. By analyzing red-carpet …
I created a periodic table of elements by taking the first image returned by google when the name of an element was …
I Humped Your Hummer is a social online experiment which we tried to initiate a new form of social protest, that is …
The Brain Freeze was entered into the first contagious media contest at Eyebeam in 2005, where websites had three weeks to gain …
Produced and installed at the Architecture Association of London in 2003. This piece explored the London Underground as an organic form while …