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cutouts of Google Earth imagery of circular farms
Satellite Collections
manmade elements collected from Google Maps satellite view
cutouts of Google Earth imagery of infrastructure
Satellite Landscapes
infrastructural elements cut out from Google Maps screenshots
a detailed, hand-sewn, stuffed fabric computer
Neo Surreal
images from BYTE magazine culled during a residency at the Internet Archive
A large pile of trash inside a dump, superimposed with a bureaucratic logo for the Bureau of Suspended Objects
The Bureau of Suspended Objects
archiving objects passing through the San Francisco dump
Two people in a gallery looking at a wooden display case of objects with three distinct sections
The B.S.O. at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
a trash-y collaboration with window designer Philip Buscemi
My hand pulling up a bureaucratic form filled out withe handwriting, exposing the carbon copy beneath
The B.S.O. at the Palo Alto Art Center
collecting and archiving "pre-trash" from the public (with maddeningly bureaucratic forms)
An animation showing a grid of household objects, with a mouse passing over each to reveal a map of where it was made
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
A collage of garbage shaped like a portrait of me, against a white backdrop
Garbage Selfie
a self portrait made from three weeks of my own trash
A black and white photograph of a person and their car in the midst of a vast empty parking lot. An area in the background has been circled with the text, You Are Here
The Memory of All Traces
a mobile walking tour of SOMA produced while in residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
An electrical transmission tower in the mountains
Power Trip
tracing the hydroelectric power used for municipal buildings and transportation in San Francisco to its source in Yosemite
Screenshot of Google Street View of an oil pipeline marker in a grassy clearing
Pipe Dream
tracing the Portland-Montreal underground crude oil pipeline on Street View
Isolated satellite imagery of a tar sands mine against a white backdrop
Land Marks
oil sands, fracking, and a nuclear waste site extracted from satellite imagery
Screenshot of an ad for a supposedly free watch on Instagram
There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch
researching a fascinating piece of crap for the Museum of Capitalism
Screenshot of a YouTube video where a young person is saying, Ask yourself if you really want your ex back.
People Younger Than Me Explaining How to Do Things
kids and teenagers setting us straight
A photo of a wedding ring in its box, superimposed with the text that reads: I am just hoping it goes to a wonderful woman who deserves it.
I Hate to Part With It: Craigslist Farewells
orphaned objects and animals and the photos taken to get rid of them
A collage of tall roadside fast food and motel signs cut out from satellite imagery, against a white backdrop
Signs of Life
billboards, shopping center signs, and more
A crowd of people isolated from aerial imagery, against a white backdrop
All the People on Google Earth
crowds extracted from screenshots of Google Earth
A collage of animals cut out from old maps, against a black backdrop
Peripheral Landscapes
gods, people, and flora/fauna from the margins of very old maps
An arrangement of cutouts of the same person during different moments on Google Street View
Temporal Portraits
following people stuck walking forever in Street View limbo
A collage-like animation showing the same person doing different movements inside different-sized boxes
Merce-bau
a video piece inspired by Kurt Schwitters and Merce Cunningham, produced in residence with the Hope Mohr Dance Bridge Project
A side-by-side composite showing one screenshot of a person walking on Street View, and a photo of me walking in the same way in the same exact spot
Reenactments
partially successful attempts to reenact moments on Google StreetView
A surreal-looking collage with futuristic structures against an orange sky
Hauptstrom
a collage of secondhand utopian dreams
A chaotic collage with diagrams and labels from corporate slide decks, set against a background of clouds
The Findings May Surprise You
collages from Slideshare presentations of now-defunct startups (collaboration with Joe Veix)
An empty status box from Facebook, circa 2015, collaged into a sweeping natural landscape
Natural History
de-naturalizing the Facebook interface
A screen shot of Google Street View in the mountains, with me as a 23-year-old Photoshopped in
Travel by Approximation: A Virtual Road Trip
a cross-country trip made during grad school by way of online maps and reviews
a digital collage of mountains, some high resolution and some low resolution
Untitled Wilderness
an imagined landscape made of mountains from Google Earth
Line drawings of various things like line graphs, flowers, and horses, some more skillful than others
Google Drawing Game
an artistic collaboration with reverse Google Image search

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