Barely Skin Deep
Online Project, 2005-2008
Barely Skin Deep (work in progress) is an interactive online
documentary video project, which explores the concept of feminine beauty from
the perspective of 10 diverse women. Using video interviews collected over a
4-year period, this fine art documentary work presents a fragmented, pluralistic
perspective on the personal and societal issues which inform and influence a
woman's concept of self and group beauty. .
Project Site: http://www.barelyskindeep.com
X/FEST, Remote Lounge
Digital Media Festival, 2003
Guest Curator for three night festival presenting several distinct thematic screening programs of video works which exemplified several crossover trends in film,video and music. The festival's three major themes were: X/Process, X/Iterate, and X/Animate. Following each screening program were live performances of works by experimental video artists and VJs who incorporated live video and audio mixing.
100 Gestures, Remote Lounge, 2002
Multi Channel Video Installation
A collaborative multi channel video installation which focuses
on the literal meaning of gesture - a physical movement that contains meaning.
In particular, the moment where a movement of the body transitions from
an insignificant motion to an act of communication.
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American Views: Stories of the Landscape, 2001
Online Artwork Commissioned by The Smithsonian American Art Museum
Award: New Media New Century
An online work which presents a personal and eclectic view
of the American landscape as experienced and remembered by three diverse
individuals. Emulating the fragmented, non-linear, montage-like construction
found in the writings of the German cultural theorist, Walter Benjamin,
this interactive work brings together a collection of private and public
images, audio, ephemera and text from three "storytellers." They
are: Cindi, a digital designer in Irvine, Kentucky, who lives on a 27 acre
farm at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains; Adam, a environmental
engineer from Northern California who specializes in the analysis and clean-up
of hazardous waste sites; and Neil, who shares his recollections of growing
up in an emerging New York City suburb on Long Island in the 1950's and
1960's. Woven together with "visual" quotes from 4 central themes
-- seen[scene], use[re]use, permanence[im]permanence, and earth[un]earth
-- this randomly accessed, non-linear work reveals the many different "micro" tales
of specific places that exist within the larger American experience.
URL for artwork on Smithsonian's server:
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/newmedia/lederman/
URL for artwork on Rhizome Artbase's Server:
http://idx164.idx.net/object.rhiz?2575
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Congestion, 2000
Online Artwork Created for RepoHistory's Circulation WebSite
Congestion is an interactive art work which investigates the flow (or lack of)
within the vehicular and human circulatory system of an urban environment. At
the core of this work is a fascination with the urbanite's staccato movements
through the often stymied vehicular network of a large metropolis.
URL for artwork on RepoHistory's Circulation website:
http://www.repohistory.org/circulation/ci_interactive.php3
NYC Thought Pictures: Memories of Place, 1999
CD-ROM
Awards: Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica; 2nd Prize, File Festival,
Sao Paulo, Brazil; Merit Award for Interactive Design, How Magazine.
NYC Thought Pictures is an interactive CD-ROM which presents a personal and
eclectic view of New York, as experienced and remembered by several diverse
individuals.
At the core of NYC Thought Pictures is a fascination with the power
of "seemingly" ordinary events and places, which ultimately
turn out to be monumental within the schema of an individual's life. For
me, the personal and idiosyncratic hold the power. Therefore,
as the basis for this interactive work, I have chosen to interview
several diverse individuals about their New York "place" stories. These
stories along with "visual" quotes from Walter Benjamin and
Graeme Gilloch (a Benjamin scholar) form the theoretical and visual
armature of this work. Benjamin's writings on Berlin,
Moscow, Paris and Naples provide the theoretical underpinnings for
developing an investigation of the four central themes in NYC Thought
Pictures , i.e. "Memory", "Time", "Fragmentation" and "City
Experience". The fragmentary writing style and sometimes
open-ended conclusions in Benjamin's work is well suited to my visual
style and theoretical viewpoint. Loosely following Benjamin's
model, this work is constructed from fragments of private and public
images, audio, ephemera and text of and about the city. As a
totality, these images aid in revealing the "micro" tales
of specific places and neighborhoods within the larger view of New
York City.
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