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News [May 21, 2012] My film Crusts will be premiering in San Francisco at the Crossroads film festival, presented by SF Cinematheque, on Sunday May 20 at 3:00 pm. This piece is a collaboration with White/Light. The full piece is 12 minutes; here's the trailer: [March 2012] A new zine/artist book I made called Not Invented Here is available at Quimby's. The book is a collection of abstract collages I made using photocopy textures, printed with a two-color photocopy technique.  
[February 25 - March 25, 2012] The 16mm film On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts, 1969-1972 I made with Peter Miller will be showing at Volker Bradtke in Dusseldorf as part of a group show called 1969-1972. Other artists in the show are Christos Dikeakos, Charles Duke, and Robert Smithson. [October 23] Eyeworks has been awarded a generous grant from the Propeller Fund for the 2011 festival. [November 5 & 6, 2011] [October 10, 2011] On Psychedelia, an interview I did with Andy Roche in 2009 on psychedelic film and politics, has been published in the newest edition of the online journal Drain. [November 5-6, 2011] Lilli Carre and I are planning the 2011 edition of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, to be held November 5 & 6 at DePaul University in downtown Chicago. We will screen approximately 35 new and classic short films over four programs. Stay tuned for more details, including program lineups, festival trailers, and an exciting new poster project from our friends at Sonnenzimmer. [September 5] 4000 Frame Throw (Pitchin' Machine) 2:50, 16mm, 2011 [August 27] The Battle of the Stand-Stills 15:45, HD, 2010 [July 20] Documentation of the making of 4000 Frame Throw/Pitchin' Machine [June 23 - July 14, 2011] 
4000 Frame Throw / Pitchin' Machine Running Room exhibition Columbia College A&D Gallery 619 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago 4000 Frame Throw is a durational performance piece that will be taking place at the A&D Gallery from July 6-9, 2011. A Bolex camera is loaded with a 100-foot roll of 16mm film. Clicking off one frame at a time, 4,000 exposures are needed to finish the roll of film. A plexiglas target is set up so that when it is hit by a thrown ball, one frame of film is exposed. Participants stand across the room and throw balls, attempting to hit the target. Hits and misses are recorded on the wall. The piece is open to participation from anyone who comes to the gallery. In conjunction with this piece, a selection of short films will be screened on Thursday, July 7, at 6 pm in the gallery. The films are various takes on absurdity, wit, deadpan and slapstick. Admission free. [April 23-24, 2011] 
Espressinoscope April 34-24, 2011 MDW Fair, ACRE booth 3636 S. Iron St. Chicago [February 26, 2011] 
100 Foot Ride February 26, 2011 Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space 1254 N. Noble St., Chicago [November 6, 2010] 
The Eyeworks festival trailer is finished. It's made up of 200 silkscreened posters designed by Sonnenzimmer, shot frame-by-frame and animated. [October 26, 2010] I will be projecting some new footage to accompany a performance by Chicago duo White/Light at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, October 26, from 6-7 pm. White/Light does some excellent noise and drone music, and it's great to be collaborating with them on this performance. I'm showing a piece that features macro photography of minerals, crystals, bricks and shells, which I shot this summer as part of my Fort Morgan project. It's a lot of gnarly, crusty and geometric textures rotating on screen, which I think intersects White/Light's music in a really cool way. 
Face The Strange at the MCA, Tuesday October 26. [November 6, 2010] Lilli Carre and I have organized a new film festival called Eyeworks, which will take place in Chicago on November 6, 2010. The festival features experimental animation ranging from abstract work to unconventional character animation. Animator David O'Reilly will be in attendance and will presenting a program of his work. Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation Nov. 6, 2010 247 S. State St., Chicago eyeworksfestival.com [September 21-26, 2010] The Battle of The Stand-Stills will premiere at the 25fps International Festival of Experimental Film & Video in Zagreb, Croatia in the "Lone Elements" program on Wednesday, September 22. [July 12 - 17, 2010] Iceland Spar will screen as part of a program of animation from Chicago in the Animator Festival in Poznan, Poland. [June 25 - 27, 2010] Iceland Spar and Very Similar To will screen in shorts programs in the 17th Chicago Underground Film Festival. Iceland Spar will show at 9:15 on June 25th, and Very Similar To will show (on 16mm) at 1:15 on Sunday June 27th, both at the Gene Siskel Film Center. [June 19, 2010] Iceland Spar will screen as part of the 22nd Onion City Film Festival on Saturday, June 19, at 4:00 pm at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St. [May 2010] An HD version of my 2005 film Errata is now online. [April 10, 2010] 100 Foot Pull will show in the inaugural installment of Saturday Cinema, which is a monthly film installation project space in Chicago run by Kat Parker and George Monteleone. The films at Saturday Cinema will be rear-projected in the front window of their apartment on a loop every Saturday starting at sundown for two hours. Saturday Cinema is located at 1369 W. Chicago, at Noble St. 100 Foot Pull will screen at sundown on April 10, April 17, April 24, and May 1. 
[February 2010] Winter/Spring program has been set for the Roots & Culture screening series. February 20, 2010 - Steven Summers March 13, 2010 - New acquisitions from the VDB collection May 15, 2010 - Steve Reinke May 30, 2010 - Jo Dery [December 15] I put together a list of all of the Roots & Culture screenings we have done. See them in chronological order here. We just passed the 25 mark. [Winter 2009] 
The Battle of The Stand-Stills (16:00, HD) is finished. It's a movie about match-sprint racing, and is focused on an extended track-stand face-off that took place during the 1990 Match Sprint World Championships. [December 2009] 
I have started a new web project called Collector Not Completist. It's a blog that features original scans of record labels, one posted each day. The project is a collaborative appreciation of record label design by a few record collectors I know. [September 24, 2009] Full version of my animation Iceland Spar, with soundtrack. Iceland Spar, 2009, 3:16. [September 19, 2009] I will be showing two new pieces as part of a group show at FLAT, a one-night-only gallery operated by Erik Brown and Catie Olson. Erik and Catie are both contributing work to the show. Lilli Carre has made a shadow-puppet piece and some drawings for the show. I am showing a new drawn animation, and a mirror sculpture. FLAT is located at 2332 W. Augusta Ave in Chicago.  News archive |
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