Artists and Projects 2012

8.8 ~ DANCE.HELP.HEAL was created with my partner, Jorge Galvez (DJ Cruzz) to hold monthly house music events, focused on different DJs and a different charity or cause each month. 8.8 Event proceeds have been donated to Red Cross Chile, Alzheimer's Association & Aids Action Committee. We would love to further locate, create, spread and share Music, Dance & the Arts through future 8.8 ~ Dance.Help.Heal Events.

Analog Fire is an electronic collective merging dreamy and cinematic high ends with pounding dance low ends. Live original music with sound synched visuals make this experience incredibly reactive and inter-disciplinary.

I will stage a two way mirror made of safety glass within a wooden installation. The viewer will be able to get in and play with their own reflection being mixed with others. It's really FUN and liberating the viewer becomes the doer. It's an open stage that conveys the idea that we are expressions at any time, here emphasized with the full body connected visually, moving/participating. We can draw on the glass too.

Participants will don special funny-looking blindfolds and play musical chairs, accompanied by live xylophone music and perhaps a marching band.

Our group would like to bring a large (7 foot tall) fiberglass moose (possibly 2) which will be painted white, as in a blank canvas, and supply paint, pens and other creative mediums for the participants at Figment to decorate and draw on the moose. At the end of Figment, the moose (or mooses) will be made available for display for those wishing to host the moose.

Cloud Party is a performance piece that aims to promote live experimental music as an accessible and engaging art form. In order to meet this goal, Cloud Party challenges the conventional relationship between performer and audience, blurs the boundaries between listening to and creating sound, and explores the use of the entire body as a musical instrument.

Come express your inner seamstress. Happenstance quilters will create quilt squares for a community quilt. Over the course of the weekend we will create a warm cozy blanket to be donated to a local women's shelter.Come play with fabric and stitch a little love!

This project consists of photos that I took on a drive from Jackson, MS to Boston, MA in March. The photos show sights, towns, and people that I remember along the highways that lead through 13 states, while on an odyssey to Boston. Each snap of the camera was a moment in my life, frozen in time in a frame. Please, feel free to take one of my moments with you, to view in a different light. Let it be your memory, too.

Etheraz & Space Odyssey X1: Have you ever wanted to seek treasure and un-cover secrets of the universe?  Battle brutal bandits, gruesome goblins and unworldly undead and slay dragons?  Find your way through the dungeon and claim the ancient treasure?  Now you can in a interactive theater world armed with sword and sorcery. Will you be Hero or Villain? Find the Philosopher stone and save the world or let the shadow of the great conjunction fall upon the lands of Etheraz forever! LARP is a combination of theater, martial arts and costume/prop/stage design combined with critical thinking, creative problem solving and community leadership skills.  Come see and participate in the finely crafted interdisciplinary experience of the LARP Adventure Program.

Join us in a collaborative, interactive, social art installation. Experience the magic as you hear people singing songs and making statements. Using Augmented Reality FOV exists in virtual space and can be accessed using Layar, a free application available for smartphones. Just load Layar and search for FOV. Please consider participating by leaving a brief message. Touch one of the objects or call (800) 950-6583.

I will be a "cigarette girl" crossed with a clown. Think: brightly-colored sunbeam of fun. My box will be full of postcards I've made for people to fill out and mail to their loved ones (via me or themselves), "Kindness is Contagious" and "Campaign for Good" stickers, buttons and other fun treats. All will be free, positive and all-ages-friendly. I previously performed the same at the New England Art Awards.

The project is a reflection on the continuous, disconnected, intangible information we absorb through the internet, that leads to chaotic, fictive, composite memories. Located on the very concrete and directional Freedom Trail, the sculpture "explodes" into a spatial trail of information. Inside the bricks packed with facts are temporary data tattoos people can use to transform their bodies into textual nonsense.

Downtempo, Electro-Conscious, Worldfolk: HoneyCircuit's music weaves a mix of electronic beats, live instrumentation and ethereal vocals to produce a sound that has been compared to a "tribal Portishead". Eric Freeman (Kalimba Sound System) and Kara Trott (Fluttr Effect) fuse a symphony of Djun Djun, Guitar, Kalimba, Marimba, and Flute. Live belly dancer and video projection included.

This project will end up as a garland of prayer flags that answer the question "what do want to change?" It will start off as a hanging piece of string with the supplies laid out for participants to fill in the blank with their own answer. It will be colorful and self-hanging (not on trees).

In the future, music will become something that even people who weren't traditionally musicians will be able to contribute to. This project features new methods of creating music, using both lasers and EEG (electroencephalography) to create music. With lasers, you can create music without touching anything except for light. With EEG, you can make music only using your mind.

Visitors are invited to dream about love, life and human caring and tie their imaginings onto the little boat. A video camera will be set up nearby to capture the thoughts of those willing to tell their stories. The little boat dreams project grew from an art installation about a failed polar expedition on display at the Boston Public Library until July 31, 2012.

Inspired by a musical piece by Sxip Shirey, participants seek out and retieve lost marbles and return them to the main table which has glass and metal bowls to produce sounds by rolling them in the bowl. Also an opportunity to make rolled paintings to display or take home using marbles, paint, with other opportunities to play with marbles as well.

16"x16"x16" sacred geometric figure made out of balsa wood dowels and lazer cut plywood and outfitted with sound reactive electroluminescent wire.

Pendulum Light Waves is an interactive kinetic light and sound sculpture that uses 15 simple pendulums that range from 12' to 20' in length, to highlight the beauty of mathematics. Participants will be able to program the light show that accompanies the pendulums natural periodic movement.

The Real Time Art Show is an experiment in social photography. Our goal is to create a gallery that is created in actual time, and is altered over the course of the event. The project asks Figment participants to contribute to the gallery in various ways: as photographers, subjects of photography, and curators of photographs.

Seeking Wonderland is an absurdest take on the traditional game. While the layout and rules of the game have not changed, our visual relationship has. Each of the 32 pieces are the same color. The game starts simply enough, but as various pieces advance, the strategy becomes more complicated. The challenge is to remain aware of your own pieces as they intermingle and blend with the other team.

Although light makes everything visible, light itself is not usually noticed because we see things reflected against it. Shine is an installation that connects one's personal relationship to the sunlight in to the space. A camouflage tent turns into a space with lots of visual reflections that is determined by natural elements such as light and wind. Each viewer perceives changing experiences under the sunlight.

This is a Firefly TIN grant piece. The comic is a form of sequential art that flows in a somewhat linear manner. Some artists have explored multi-directional storytelling through branching lines to create different “nodes” of a story. This project will create a branching musical and visual comic through electronically enhanced wood shadowboxes, each displaying an original comic panel. These boxes are touch sensitive.

Pedal & solar Powered sound system and interactive light show

Visit the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation's interactive exhibit and experience how a governor works and how steam engines run. Create your own art using Waltham Watch Company Watch Plates and other nineteenth century tools of industry. Then discover how artists today are reclaiming industrial debris and meet Sparkticus our eighteen inch mascot made of military scrap from the Vietnam War.

The Chromodynamic Playground invites participants to create paintings under highly-saturated color-changing light. Upon entering the playground, participants will at once be transported to a world of saturated color and emotionally-evokative sound. After a brief period of orientation to this new place, a visitor will be invited to participate in a collective work of art using paint or ink.

The Hornitz is a musical act. We are interested in performing on your main stage. It is a two person act that utilizes instruments, the human mouth, and modern technology to create incredible, danceable soundscapes. The two band members play horns, keyboards, and use human beatbox for drums and bass. Let's celebrate the artistic process!

A self performing garment that mimics the processes used by the human retina. The back of the dress is a 8x8 LED grid that displays an approximation of the light that is received by the front sensor grid. Worn by a performer, the garment itself is what puts on the show.

The Roving Scroll Theater is a wheeled 28"x15" 72" tall "theater" into which 130-foot long linocut-type hand-printed fabric scrolls are threaded and hand-cranked through the stage. The Scrollmaster rolls the theater from place to place and reads to willing audiences followed by questions and discussion. Texts include the first paragraph of On The Road by Jack Kerouac, and the complete Gettysburg Address by Lincoln.

“The journey in the Realm of the Unspeakable” is a interactive performance project investigating the sense of existence in specific time and this particular site of urban natural scenery. It combines kinetic sculpture, the artist’s appearance, and the interaction between the viewers, local environment and the artist. A kinetic flower sculpture with five movable petals will be installed surrounding the artist head and interact with people while roaming around in between the greenways.

Tolieth Marks will be singing Pop, Jazz, R& B, and Classic

Be part of a new twist on a classic game! Get down and play on an oversized custom-made Twister mat, or become a 3-D dot on the Twister board (come by and you'll see what we mean). Fun for the whole family !

“Virtual Sculpture” is made of a plastic banner, size 60x150cm, with a Qrcode image on the centre, size 30x30cm. The Qrcode can be detected with a smartphone in order to be redirected to a webpage where the public can see the video “How far can you see?” and can interact with by answering to the questions the video is based on.

"Void Simulacrum" begins as a 50-foot long wall of fabric enveloping two performers. The sculpture incorporates willing spectators and passers-by, who become the crest of the piece. As each new participant makes aesthetic decisions, the originally static sculptural mass transforms. So the spectator bears responsibility for the artwork. In "Void Simulacrum" the audience is the performance.

Who did you think you would grow up to become? This is an exhibit of the inner self and an ode to the people we have strived to be. It is our childhood dreams and desires realized through the transparency of the human body. And at the center of it all; a bottomless well where all your hopes, dreams and desires can be dropped in and anonymously unleashed. What part of yourself do you wish you could show to the world?

Wheelwright's One Man Marching Band travels at 3 mph, spreading smiles across faces and instigating small parades of children young and old.

Where are you in space? Take a look at our Galaxy scaled down to fit our world and see.

in so many words is an 18 ½ hr time capsule of unedited news radio sound bites, devoid of all newscasters, commentators, or analysts. it sequentially covers the last Presidential Election, and the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency (May 2008 to May 2009). The edited result unfolds a non sequitur narrative that informs you about the world, the scope of news reporting, and how you relate to this reality.