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Satellite Collections
manmade elements collected from Google Maps satellite view
Satellite Landscapes
infrastructural elements cut out from Google Maps screenshots
Neo Surreal
images from BYTE magazine culled during a residency at the Internet Archive
The Bureau of Suspended Objects
archiving objects passing through the San Francisco dump
The B.S.O. at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
a trash-y collaboration with window designer Philip Buscemi
The B.S.O. at the Palo Alto Art Center
collecting and archiving "pre-trash" from the public (with maddeningly bureaucratic forms)
Where Almost Everything I Used, Wore, Ate or Bought on Monday, April 1, 2013 (That Had a Label) Was Manufactured, to the Best of My Knowledge
Garbage Selfie
a self portrait made from three weeks of my own trash
The Memory of All Traces
a mobile walking tour of SOMA produced while in residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Power Trip
tracing the hydroelectric power used for municipal buildings and transportation in San Francisco to its source in Yosemite
Pipe Dream
tracing the Portland-Montreal underground crude oil pipeline on Street View
Land Marks
oil sands, fracking, and a nuclear waste site extracted from satellite imagery
There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch
researching a fascinating piece of crap for the Museum of Capitalism
People Younger Than Me Explaining How to Do Things
kids and teenagers setting us straight
I Hate to Part With It: Craigslist Farewells
orphaned objects and animals and the photos taken to get rid of them
Signs of Life
billboards, shopping center signs, and more
All the People on Google Earth
crowds extracted from screenshots of Google Earth
Peripheral Landscapes
gods, people, and flora/fauna from the margins of very old maps
Temporal Portraits
following people stuck walking forever in Street View limbo
Merce-bau
a video piece inspired by Kurt Schwitters and Merce Cunningham, produced in residence with the Hope Mohr Dance Bridge Project
Reenactments
partially successful attempts to reenact moments on Google StreetView
Hauptstrom
a collage of secondhand utopian dreams
The Findings May Surprise You
collages from Slideshare presentations of now-defunct startups (collaboration with Joe Veix)
Natural History
de-naturalizing the Facebook interface
Travel by Approximation: A Virtual Road Trip
a cross-country trip made during grad school by way of online maps and reviews
Untitled Wilderness
an imagined landscape made of mountains from Google Earth
Google Drawing Game
an artistic collaboration with reverse Google Image search