projects

Studies in Fluid Mechanics Call # QC145.2.F5 The first chapter of this project concluded in October 2007 when 9 MIT students, staff and faculty screened their video art under MIT's Great Dome (home of Barker Engineering library). Participants included: Sands Fish, Kathy Hamilton, Stephanie Houston, Ivy Lee, Georgina Lewis, Thery Meslick, Nik Gulacsik, Andres Lombana, Andrew Shea. Thanks to MIT's Council for the Arts who generously funded this project, Project Description: Working off of the idea that countless people can use an image in countless ways, SFM is looking for filmmakers to make 5-minute films that incorporate (and resuscitates) one of the 148 3-minute long, super-8 films.  This rare footage of fluid mechanics experiments was discarded in trash bins at MIT and dates back to 1963.  The footage varies greatly, from computer-generated models to hands-on experiments. Studies in Fluid Mechanics illustrates the process of take this footage, transfer it into a digital format, digitally edit it and then present it as video art. The plan for this long-term project is to compile the 151 films after each filmmaker has recreated the footage and to show them together. please contact me if you're interested in participating

Listening Watching This is my last radio show at WMBR 88.1 (MIT). For two seasons I explored the limitations of video and audio layering while on the radio with co-hosts Ken Avery and Kristin Myers.  Each of these live mixing sessions started when we searched video websites with tags like “train”, “slow motion” and “captivity”, and layered the videos that have unique audio qualities with various in-studio audio tracks.  Because only the audio from each video is transmitted, that audio needs to have an especially “visual” quality that can relocate listeners to the unique non-spaces that arise from each hybrid narrative. Check out the blog to see some of the videos that were played over the air http://www.listeningwatching.blogspot.comand check back soon to hear samples "songs" from the show.

Between Exposures The goal of Between Exposures is to use writing to capture unseen moments in photographs. I became interested in this when I was given a twin-lens camera and started to layer negatives with several exposures, each of which was captured at a distinct moment. I noticed that the combination of these exposures create moods that vary as much as they intrigue and hypnotize. They also make me wonder what happened during the times between each exposure, between exposure A and B (or C & D, in many cases). There are no clues in the photo that directly answers this question, and no way to visually recapture these moments, but the layered exposures are inspiring sources to start from. So with a little help from imaginative writers, Between Exposures will recreate this time and space with words. Please contact me if you're a writer and you're interested in this project