GENDER ID; Subject-Matter Experts

BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY

Erik Erikson's theory of the stages of human development.

Developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson ( 1902-1994) was best known for his theory on social development of human beings, and for coining the phrase identity crisis.

The theory describes eight stages through which a healthily developing human should pass from infancy to late adulthood. In each stage, the person confronts, and hopefully masters, new challenges. Each stage builds on the successful completion of earlier stages. The challenges of stages not successfully completed may be expected to reappear as problems in the future.

(Approx. ages) Stage & Psychosocial crisis	Significant relations	Psychosocial modalities	Psychosocial virtues	Maladaptations & malignancies
1(0-1) Infant Trust vs mistrust	Mother	to get, to give in return	hope, faith	sensory distortion withdrawal
2(2-3) Toddler Autonomy vs shame and doubt	Parents	to hold on, to let go	will, determination	impulsivity compulsion
3(3-6) Preschooler Initiative vs guilt	Family	to go after, to play	purpose, courage	ruthlessness inhibition
4(7-12) School-age child Industry vs inferiority	Neighborhood and school	to complete, to make things together	competence	narrow virtuosity inertia
5(12-18) Adolescent Ego-identity vs role-confusion	Peer groups, role models	to be oneself, to share oneself	fidelity, loyalty	fanaticism repudiation
6(20-45) Young adult Intimacy vs isolation	Partners, friends	to lose and find oneself in a another	love	promiscuity exclusivity
7(30-65) Middle-aged adult Generativity vs self-absorption	Household, co-workers	to make do, to take care of	care	overextension rejectivity
8(50+) Old adult Integrity vs despair	Mankind or "my kind"	to be, through having been, to face not being	wisdom	presumption despair

Erikson's Stages of Human Development as they are represented in Animated short Gender ID.

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The effect of social pressure and stereotypes about sex/gender is massive, as there is an urge to a certain direction based only on the sex we were born with. Gender capitalism is the recognition of society’s perception of gender. Rain Dove uses that perception in the most advantageous way. It does not mean that people cannot identify with their own gender, it just means they do not recognize the stereotypes society places on that gender. Overall, it means people must exceed the limits of social norms and become advocates for each other.
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Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it's often a fuzzy line between male and female, among other anatomical distinctions. Which brings up a huge question: Why do we let our anatomy determine our fate?

GENDER ID; Characters

 the Protagonist 
the universal journey to Gender Identity

The 7 Phases of Gender Maturation

 

PHASE       AGE           GENDER ID

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1.               <0                Single cell

2.               (0)               Fetus: Black and/or White Biological/Genetics

3.              (0-1)            Infant and
                  (2-3)            Toddler:  Primary Colors

4.             (3-6)            Preschooler and
                 (7-12)          School-age child: Identity Assigned (slapped on)

5.            (12-18)          Adolescence: Self Aware Shame and Ridicule

6.            (20-45)         Young adult: Experiment         

7.            (46-65)         Middle-aged adult: Over It

(Loosely Based on Erik Erikson's theory of the stages of human development.)

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 the Antagonist 
the voice of Popular Opinion

Starts at 15 sec.  Ends to 30 sec.

the forked tongue of the Masses

Supporting Character:  Mother

GENDER ID; Music

 Music: 34 Ghost IV 
Album: Ghost I-IV (aka Halo)
Released: 2008
Tempo: 64 BPM
Length: 5:52
Written by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 
Multitracks for this song were released in raw WAV format via remix.nin.com

 AUDIO USAGE 

0:00 - 1:30 regular speed
2:00 - 2:15 half speed
1:00 - 1:30 quarter speed
5:00 - 5:15 regular speed

GENDER ID Practical Documentation; Test Shots

Yo Gabba Gabba; Analysis Vignettes

 INCITE 

A thin black man wearing an orange tracksuit, struts into view carrying a big boom box. He looks like a throwback to the 70's when similar caricatures of inner-city African-Americans were popular on network television and blaxploitation movies of cinema.

The Breakout Stars of their shows

Antonio Fargas as Huggy Bear     Jimmie Walker as JJ Evans     Lance Robertson as DJ Lance Rock
   Starsky and Hutch, 1975-1979          Good Times, 1974-1979        Yo Gabba Gabba! 2007-2015

This new incarnation is different. He is lighter on his feet and doesn't hesitate to smile as he looks directly at you through the camera. He peers left to right and back left as if to make sure the coast is clear. He then swings open the front of what he was frontin' as a portable transistorized music player. Inside are monochromatic toy figures, padded like expensive camera equipment. No, he's not here to sell you stolen goods, or drugs. He's here to "Edutain(1)" your toddlers.

With three nonsensical words, DJ Lance Rock brings to life his toy monsters and starts this week's musical adventure.

                      This clip shows the title sequence and a toddlers excitement for it.

That's one way to interpret the title sequence of this quirky half-hour show. That is not what I saw in 2007 when I chanced on it while surfing cable TV. What I saw was Peter Pan as a 90's NYC Club Kid, a full-of-life life-sized Muppet,  and the Mister Rogers of Gabba Land.

Yo Gabba Gabba! (YGG!) is an anomaly of a television program.   Its target audience is 2-5 yr old preschoolers AND adult fans of Indie Pop music.  DJ  Lance, the show's host, appeals to both demographics.  As a seemingly queer black man he simultaneously triggers sensitivity to ethnic and gender representation AND avoids any criticism by the PC police.

The show creators Scott Shultz (bottom left) and Christian Jacobs (bottom middle)
have been collaborating since they were kids.

Soon after the intro, it's clear that this is no cookie-cutter kids show and if DJ Lance is a stereotype, he is in a group of one.  And yet YGG! adheres to the PBS-prescribed methodology (2) and teaches toddlers by doing (vs. saying), encouraging them to stay active by dancing. And with every activity, DJ Lance reiterates the underlying lesson of the program - to live and let live, not to fear the other, and that "Every snowflake is different" just like them (3).

To date, the 66 half-hour episodes produced in 4 seasons have aired on Nick Jr. for 8 years. Viacom's Nickelodeon Group who runs Nick Jr. is exercising its Right of First Refusal about a 5th season. Nielson gestimate 600K+ tune in weekly, and Nickelodeon streams 1.3 million clips per month. But considering their thumb-sucking audience loses interest at around the age of 5 preschool programs like YGG only need 4 seasons of material. In perpetual re-runs, they would always have an audience who is viewing the material for the first time.

Anecdotal evidence: Children lose interest in YGG! at about the age of 5

 INSIGHT 

Fast forward 10 years, and up 13 floors to a crowded restaurant in a downtown Los Angeles, where Lance Robertson, the performer who plays the role of DJ Lance Rock, explains that his on-screen look was inspired by Deee-Lite, and their 1990 music video, Groove is in the Heart.

So this TV persona is less Pam Grier, blaxploitation icon Foxy Brown, and more Lady Miss Kier, founding members of Deee-Lite. The similarity of their family names, Grier and Krier, is an unavoidable design distraction. Here's the animated wallpaper inspired by their public personas and matching names.

Ethnic Representation...

EPISODES ANALYSED (3 of 66)

Season 1 Episode 1; Eat (The first show of the first season includes a physically challenged child, Lauren, in thereoccuring  "I Like to Dance" segment of the show)

Season 1, Episode 14; Car


Season 4, Episode 13; Day Camp. This episode introduces siblings of the monster and DJ Lance and may give some insight into the shows gender bias. DJ Lance Rock's effervescence goes flat and his character deepens as he shows signs of sibling rivalry.

. . .  of Children on the Television Program

These kids like to dance and make faces!

. . . of the Children in the Live Show vs in the Audience

A breakdown of the live holiday show may be even more telling, as it juxtaposes the children on screen with real audience members.

ACTORS                               FANS 

. . .  of the Children in the Animated Shorts
Another group of children is shown or represented in the weekly animations. Note in this animation, the parents of the blonde girl and boy are a white man and black women. And the kid with the bad attitude is shown as a monkey.

Ethnic and Gender representation on YGG! is consistent with its audience and the general population.

 The hegemony of the show may be an assumption of abundance, In the Storytime segment of the Shopping episode (Season 4 Episode 07), Mama's hair comb is a living butterfly ready to disperse cash on command.

This carries through from the make-believe money in the animated short to the real world. Ticket prices to the live performances are high considering they are for toddlers. So is all the merchandise. The toys made by KidRobot have sold out and are now considered collectibles.




RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY: Does Television programming discriminate based on Abundance, rather than Race or Gender?

Pop Pops Pop Yo Gabba Gabba!

The socioeconomics of the 2 parent family shifted in the past decade. The number of stay-at-home fathers doubled since the 1970s to about 550,000 men, and that figure is expected to grow, especially as more wives take on the breadwinning role in their marriages and the cost of childcare holds intolerable for many families.

From the perspective of the adult fans, Yo Gabba Gabba! is a musical variety show. Show regulars include Biz Markie, who Beat Boxes the sound of the day, and Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, whose drawing that comes to life. The show also features emerging Indie Pop bands and established Hollywood actors, many of whom are parents. The rave-like appearance and activities of the program appeal to both demographics - who are likely watching the show together.

Jack Black fell in love with the show while watching it with his son.  His wife contacted the show to see if he could have a cameo appearance.  This link takes you to the Google video Search results on "Jack Black Yo Gabba Gabba" 

In the first episode, Lex beams Elijia Wood into Gabba Land to teach his dance The Puppet Master.

YGG! a measure of coolness in Hollywood

During an appearance in 2011 on The Late Late Show, American comedian Jeffrey Tambor announced a bold career move. He will play the role of the Mini King on YGG! With a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild, and two Emmy Awards, Tambor knows an appearance could win him the ultimate prize of brownie points from his 2-year-old twin boys, and perhaps raise his coolness factor with his fans. 

 RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY:  Since celebrities can also be fans, then where in Fandom Study's Hierarchy of Fans do they sit?  A better understanding of their synergistic relationship may explain the cross-demographic popularity of Yo Gabba Gabba!

 CITED 

ILLUSTRATION NOTES

In the original photograph of DJ Lance Rock, he is pointing his finger at the camera.  It doesn't read very well and it may be misread as a gesture of shooting a gun. On the television program and during the live shows,  DJ Lance Rock is always giving high-fives. As a still image high-five looks like waving hello/goodbye, or swearing-in.  So I changed it to the more contemporary, and less-germy, hello gesture - the fist-bump-  [N1]  not to be mistaken for the Clenched Fist icon [N2] of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Jared Hess, the director of the feature film Napoleon Dynamite (NP), saw the pilot online and recommended it to Brown Johnson, the executive vice-president and executive creative director of Nickelodeon Preschool. [N3]   Though Mr. Hess did not work on or own any part of YGG!, his recommendation played a critical part in its success.  Hence the change of the text on iconic image from NP from "VOTE FOR PEDRO" to "VOTED FOR PEDO."

FACT SOURCES

(1) Selling Learning Towards a Political Economy of Edutainment Media Buckingham and Scanlon 2005

(2) Tips for Teaching Toddlers

A difference in the way preschoolers and 1st graders are taught is that play becomes more organized and routine-based. from: What They Learn in 1st Grade, PBS Parents, Education, Grade by Grade

(3) Everyone Is Different: Why Being Different Is Great!, Simon and Schuster, May 2012


Yo Gabba Gabba experiences Growing Pains on Nick Jr., by Dave Itskoff, Nov. 2009

‘Yo Gabba Gabba! Live’ frolics into town, Las Vegas Review-Journal , Steve Bornfeld, Nov. 2011

Study:  More men on the 'daddy track', by Rich Morin, Pew Research Center, Sept 2013
Study: House Husbands more common than ever, by Maya Rhodan, TIME magazine, Sept 2013
Stay-at-Home Fathers: Definition and Characteristics Based on 34 Years of CPS Data,  Karen Z. Kramer, Erin L. Kelly, Jan B. McCulloch, First Published September 12, 2013
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Guest Jeffrey Tambor, Oct. 21, 2011 
Yo Gabba Gabba! Season 4 Ep. 11, Quest,  MiniKing segment, Released Oct 12, 2015, Running time:23:11
IMDB; Jeffery Tambor, Awards page
Nickelodeon’s Stepchild, Eager for More Love, by Dave Itzkoff, NY Times, November 19, 2009
2010 US Census Shows America's Diversity, US Census Bureau, March 2011
Television the Critical View, Edited by Horace Newcomb, Oxford University Press, 2000
Charm the Children, Tickle the Parents, by Dave Itzkoff, NY Times, Aug 12, 2007

Study: Fist Bumps are less germy than handshakes, by Kim Painter, USA Today, July 28, 2014

A brief history of the "clenched fist" image, by Lincoln Cushing, Docs Populi

Origin Myth  - the Ramones believe the title of the TV program was taken from their song, which was admittedly taken from movie Freaks.

Casual dinner conversation with Lance Robertson, Nov 11, 2017, Los Angeles, CA

Photograph of Cyrus and Elaine ValaNejad and Lance Robertson by Kurosh ValaNejad

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YO GABBA GABBA and all related titles, logos and characters (other than DJ LANCE ROCK) are trademarks of GabbaCaDabra, LLC.

DJ LANCE ROCK is a trademark of Lance Robertson. All rights reserved.

Bani Adam بنی آدم

بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند                        The children of Adam are the limbs of one body

 که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند                       That share an origin in their creation

 چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار                       When one limb passes its days in pain

دگر عضو ها را نماند قرار                       The other limbs cannot remain easy

تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی                     You who feel no pain at the suffering of others

نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی                     It is not fitting for you to be called human

by Saadi from Gulistan,1258                        Translation by Marizeh Ghiasi

(1) Parasite with Symbiotic Intentions (1989-93)
Living Aspen Tree, Granite Boulder, Steel Chain and Shackle
Art Park, Aspen, Colorado

(2) Ashen Aspen (1995)
Digitally Collage
Offset Print on Vinyl
Aspen Public Art Selection,
Downtown Aspen, Colorado

(3) When Summer Falls (1999)
Total Running Time: 2 min. 19 sec.
3D Computer Graphics Animation
Premiered at the 2000 Aspen Film Festival

About the Author-Poet:

Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, better known by his pen-name Saadi was a major Persian poet and literary of the medieval period. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname "Master of Speech" among Persian scholars. One of Sa'di's best-known works is Gulistan (The Rose Garden) competed in 1258. It consists of stories aptly illustrating the standard virtues recommended to Muslims (justice, liberality, modesty, contentment) and reflections on the behavior of dervishes and their ecstatic practices. Gulistan is mainly in prose and contains stories and personal anecdotes. The text is interspersed with a variety of short poems which contain aphorisms, advice, and humorous reflections, demonstrating Saadi's profound awareness of the absurdity of human existence. The fate of those who depend on the changeable moods of kings is contrasted with the freedom of the dervishes.

from Wikipedia entry for Saadi Shirazi      

Literal Translation
Humans (lit., 'children of Adam') are the limbs of one/the same body
and are from the same essence in their creation.
When the conditions of the time hurt one of these part
other parts will suffer from discomfort/restlessness, as well. D
If you are indifferent about the misery of other
it is not deserving to call you a human being.

Transliteration 

Bani Aadam `aazaye yek pigarand
Keh dar aafarinesh ze yek guharand
Cho `ozvi be dard aavarad rozigaar
Degar ozvahaa raa namaanad qaraar
To kaz mehnate digaraan bi ghami
Nashaayad ke naamat nahand Aadami
 Watch Lillygol Sedaghat performance                            

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NOTE Worthy:

1. Obama used the translation by Marizeh Ghiasi for his New Years message to the people of Iran in 2009

2. Everyday Life, 2019 album release of British Rock band Coldplay- includes a track titled:

source UN Photo Library

3. Bani Adam Rug, Mohammad Seirafian, 5 x 5 meters ,Wool, Silk, Gold, 2005 United Nations Bldg, New York City, NY, USA

(Gift of Islamic Republic of Iran)

The Cat is on a World Tour

Games & Politics

18 video games, in 6 categories, are playable in an interactive exhibition  organized by the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with The Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhek .

The international tour will open in a new city nearly every month through 2019 -with a stop in Tehran, Iran in Fall of 2018. (Tour schedule below)

Making Opinions: Computer Games as Commentary on Actual Political Events

Plummeting backward through time, in The Cat and the Coup players turn into the pets of politics and experience world history from a four-legged perspective. As a cat, they solve various puzzles that gradually, in a tale told in reverse order, document first the death of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, then his house arrest and prison sentence, then the coup, and finally his time as Prime Minister. The Iranian prime minister, whose role remains contentious to this day, came to power in 1951 and was deposed in 1953 in a coup orchestrated by the US and British intelligence services.

His life story forms the basis for the ‘documentary game’ The Cat and the Coup. The documentary game genre continues to be a serious challenge to game developers. It is difficult to combine an interactive experience based on self-efficacy with unalterable historical facts. The developers of The Cat and the Coup found an unusual solution to this dilemma by deciding to let the players act in Mossadegh’s life story only as his pets and animal companions. The game begins with Mossadegh’s death in 1967, and guides the players, provided they solve the puzzles correctly, back to the beginning of his time in office which was dominated by a contentious proposal, contrary to Anglo-American interests, to nationalize Iranian oil fields. Mossadegh’s term in office was marked by instability from the beginning, which the game articulates visually by introducing a recurring motif of swaying and tilting imagery. And it is the cat, of all things, that causes the swaying and sabotages the negotiations. For example, it causes the chair of Prime Minister Mossadegh to collapse time and time again during his talks with US President Truman until Mossadegh finally plunges further back in time, through a door and an impressive Persian miniature-inspired graphic. It is reminiscent of an elaborate style of wooden in-lay work, adorned with finely wrought floral and Arabic ornaments. This style is collaged together with visual fragments such as a Superman-caricature sporting a lizard’s head and a US flag that emphasizes Mossadegh's UK and US connections. The individual segments of the game are suffused with a poetic and mysterious aura and are partly surreal in character, notably in the fact that most of the British and US game figures have animal heads while Mossadegh appears as a normal human being.

Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad, the developers, were not concerned with creating a game that tells its story from a neutral perspective—besides, what could such a perspective look like?—or foregrounds the players’ self-efficacy, but one “that is unlike the others. The goal of the game is to make players—especially US players—ask themselves more questions about Iran.”1 It was only two years after The Cat and the Coup was published, and precisely 60 years after the coup against Mossadegh, that the CIA publicly acknowledged its leading involvement in these events.2 In an essay published two years prior to the game’s launch, Slavoj Žižek compared the current political situation in Iran to that of a cat walking across an abyss but that would plummet to the ground only if it looked down and realized how far below it was.3 The game The Cat and the Coup express this special feeling of plummeting, of plummeting backward through time.

1 Quoted in Fischer, Jan. “The Cat and the Coup.” Retrieved from http://www.thecatandthecoup. com/GEE10_TheCat.pdf on 18.08.2016. 

2 cf. Stark, Florian. “CIA bekennt sich zu Militärputsch 1953 im Iran.” Retrieved from http://www.welt. de/geschichte/article119180782/ CIA-bekennt-sich-zu-Militaerputsch- 1953-im-Iran.html on 18.08.2016.

3 Žižek, Slavoj. “Unser aller Freiheit.” Retrieved from http://www. faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ iran-unser-aller-freiheit-1811344.html on 19.08.2016.

Descriptions of all the games can be downloaded in .pdf format here.

The interactive elements of games can definitely generate more empathy because you are forced to take the role of someone else and to more or less go through that person's experience."

Nina Keil
Journalist,
Game Developer,
Author Gender & Games

from: https://youtu.be/yZoZKrVDagg



Video games can be seen as pure entertainment, as political statements, or even as art. The interactive exhibition “Global Games: Games and Politics” presents sixteen significant politically-ambitious video games from the past twelve years. The games cover a wide range of political topics, including precarious labor conditions, war, gender issues and surveillance. All visitors are encouraged to try out these games and examine how they each present their political potential.


For more information, visit https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/w...


Tour Schedule

Exhibit info from each city

Washington DC
Boston/MIT
New York, Columbia University
Manilla
Nancy, France
Singapore
Jakarta

Novosibirk, Russia
Bangkok
Istanbul
Makhanda, South Africa f25 June - 5 July 2020.

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Curator Stephan Schwingeler initially selected The Cat and the Coup for Globale Games, a long-term exhibit starting in 2015 at ZKM. We are honored and grateful as Dr. Schwingeler has since included our video game in New Gameplay at Nam June Paik Art Center (2017) and for GameZone at the Stuttgart Animation Festival where he curated the section of Meaningful Games with an explicitly political message.

German Language Walk-Through for GLOBALE 

Who's Your Daddy?

"A study of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) gives us a literary excuse for exploring how culture moves across time and space, becoming part of the global common heritage."

The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi: An Icon to National Identity 

Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman

The Body Scrub Device

The Cinematic and Performing Arts are converging. The Body Scrub device is a tool for performer and media-makers interested in creating for this hybrid medium. Broadly, this device correlates Space and Time. It 'spacializes' animation enabling the user-participant to scrub through video using their body. More specifically, it uses the distance to any object within its 12-foot sensing range to determine its corresponding frame from the inputted animation sequence (Example filters are shown as gifs below). The resulting Interactive Animation amplifies body language while providing anonymity. When used in site-specific installations it encouraging spectators to become the spectacle. And on stage in multimedia performances, it returns control of the audience experience to performers.

User Calibration with Countdown Filter

Media: Interactive InstallationHardware: ToF sensor, CPU (Windows10 OS)
Software: Unity, Zigfu, Photoshop, After Effects
Image Dimensions: Adjustable
Image Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Native, Stretched or cropped for 16:9
Required Space: 8-12 ft. wide X 8-12 ft. deep x 8 ft. tall

Development Team:
     Code: Todd Furmanski
     Art Assets: Nesli Erten
     Advisor: Dr. Vangelis Lympouritis

KuroshValaNejad made the Body Scrub device in 2013 as a class assignment in CTAN 462: Visual Effects - taught by Eric Hanson. Its inaugural exhibition was at Mike Patterson and Candace Reckingier’s Rhythms and Visions 2, a Visions and Voices event. Along with Kurosh's installation (Body Scrub; LEGO) Associate professor Christine Panushka (In Memoriam) and MFA Candidate Nesli Erten (Blooming Flower) also used the Body Scrub device in their interactive installation at the event. Kurosh presented the idea at the Whole Body Interaction club meeting. It was coded by Todd Furmanski, iMA+P Ph.D candidate and associate researcher at the Game Innovation Lab. Nesli Erten created art for testing during development. And it was tuned thru iteration during crits in CTAN 462. 3 years and 24 installations after it was first shown, Body Scrub; LEGO was acquired by The Strong National Museum of Play for a long-term exhibit, Field of Play.

Gender Filter

Student Installations can be seen here.
Printer-friendly, text-only, exhibit history can be viewed, downloaded and printed here.
EXHIBITION HISTORY

Gender, MoogFest (2016) 
Provoked by House Bill 2H; the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act ( a.k.a. Bathroom Bill)
Immersive Media and Durational Performances
1st Floor Bathrooms, Carolina Theater, North Carolina

     

Reviews:
Noisey; VICE Music Channel, Rave Inspired Art Project Breaks Down Gender
Electronic Ladyland; Moogfest’s quest to Equalize
Consequence of Sound, 8 performances to pair with panels (pg3)



Gender, USC Cinema Faculty Retreat (2014)      
Public Bathrooms, 3rd Floor, Interactive Media Bldg, USC Cinema School Complex

What Makes a Monster (of  You)?  Doheny Memorial Library (2015)

Monster Morph filter

Interactive Exhibition Banner
Treasure Room, USC Doheny Memorial Library
7' tall x 5' wide x 1" thick glass
Rear Projection Screen

Review:
USC Cinema News
SCA Students Interpret "What Makes a Monster?"

USC Libraries Dean, Catherine Quinlin, Reception for the panel talk. Moments before, I briefly met Dean Quinlin  for the first time, where she made me an honorary librarian. 

Wise Words (for the Modern Girl), Wonderland Unbound (2014) 
     USC Doheny Memorial Library, LA, CA
     Architectural Projection
     4 projectors, 200 ft. wide x 50 ft. tall

Try Me, Wonderland Unbound Exhibition (2014)                                                                               
    USC Doheny Memorial Library, LA, CA
    Interactive Installation, 6 ft H x 6 ft W x 12 ft D
    Vertical Projection, 5ft H x 3.5 ft W
    Playing Cards

Try Me filter

Installation at Doheny Library

Installation Test at the Game Lab           Click This Text to See Movie     

Chorus Line of Strippers, The Sideshow of the Absurd by Pamela Joseph (2013)                              

     Fine Arts Center of Colorado Springs, CO

     Rear Projection with Dancer casting shadow
     10ft. wide x24 ft. deep x 8ft. tall

Red Translucent Dice, Redefining Animation (2013)                                                                           
     Society of Animations Studies Conference, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA

Red Dice  filter

   

Body Scrub; LEGO      (2013)                                                                                                               

 -  Field of Play, (2016) The Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
-   LA Game Space curates arcade at Ghosting (2014) Experimental Animation and Games, LA, CA
-   Opening of Interactive Media Building, (2014) USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
-   IndieCade Showcase at E3 (2014) Electronic Entertainment Expo, Los Angeles, CA
-   BedrOcktober Fest, (2014) Bedrock Studios, Los Angeles, CA
-   Society of Animations Studies Conference (2013), USC
-   Rhythms and Visions 2 (2013) a USC Visions and Voices, event

Body Scrub Lego was inspired by Lego Dance (2013) by Annette Jung

Coda  for Firebird Rising, 2013                                                                                                                

Ballet, circus acrobatics, puppets, and even a stilt-walker merge under the artistic direction of Stephen Hues at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood, CA. Firebird Rising is a high-octane musical mash-up of Stravinsky and electronic dance music, synced to enormous projections, with the Body Scrub device implemented for its Coda.

Coda Flower filter

Link to full blog post 

Work in Progress                                                                                                      

A Serious Tongue Lashing   - see installation proposal here

Tongue Lashing Filter