The Great Work of the Metal Lover
Made in collaboration with Kazem Kashefi “Magnum Opus Metallidurans” Honorary Mention – Prix Ars Electronica 2012 Honorary Mention – Vida 14.0 Historically, Magnum Opus, or The Great Work, was an alchemical process that incorporated a personal, spiritual and chemical method for creating the Philosopher’s Stone, a mysterious red colored substance that was capable of transmuting [...]
Bion 2006 – present
A collaboration with Andrew Fagg “Bions are transitional forms between non-living and living matter. The bion is the elemental functioning unit of all living matter. At the same time, it is the bearer of a quantum of orgone energy and, as such, functions in a specifically biological way.” -The Cancer Biopathy, Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) “Bion” [...]
Origins of Life: Experiment #1.x (July 2010)
A collaboration with Robert Root-Bernstein “The aim of art is not to show how or why an effect is produced (that would be science) but literally to produce it.” – E. O. Wilson This art installation appropriates the 1953 Miller-Urey work on origins-of-life to draw attention to the artifice and aesthetics of experimentation. The [...]
Biolume
The project will be comprised of approximately 150 three-dimensional glowing, sensing and audio-producing sculptural robots. Robotic units will be mounted on the walls and be capable of communicating with each other (via wireless protocol) and with viewers that enter the intended installation space. The finished installation will have the feeling of a cave filled with [...]
Orgone: Mechanical Tension (2002)
Orgone: Mechanical Tension is a multifaceted project that includes performances, HD video, sculptural objects and photographs. This body of work explores Wilhelm Reich’s theories of the existence and function of orgone energy (the quintessential elixir and life-force energy discovered by psychoanalyst and scientist Wilhelm Reich) and the ancient myth of Isis and Osiris. It references [...]