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Haunting USC - Gut Re-Actions
Performance at the University of Southern California, Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2013


Ectoplasmic Scream,
Detail of interactive video window installation, Kinect 360 game controller, video monitors, software, laptop computer
Dimensions variable
2011

Ectoplasmic Scream, interactive video installation made in collaboration with Limbic Media of Victoria, BC. A Xbox 360 Kinect game controller is used to recognize participants face to control onscreen avatar head and the flow of virtual ectoplasm by opening and closing mouth. The video function captures participants likeness as surface of the extruded ectoplasm. Ectoplasm is a manifestation of a spirit via the body of a medium as practiced in the Spiritualist séance ritual ceremony.

 

Ectoplasmic Scream,
Detail of interactive video window installation, Kinect 360 game controller, video monitors, software, laptop computer
2011

Ectoplasmic Scream, interactive video installation installed in the G++ Gallery project window space in Victoria, BC.

 

Hauntings
Noxious Sector project
Installation view of ghost hunting equipment, multi-channel event capture video taken during a willful haunting conducted by Noxious Sector.
2011

• Installation view of Noxious Sector’s 4 channel video compilation, presented as part of PsycheDADA group exhibition at PAVED Arts and AKA, Saskatoon, SK.

 

Hauntings – Haunting Doug Jarvis
Noxious Sector project
Detail of Haunting Doug Jarvis, documentation of ghost hunting equipment, multi-channel event capture video taken during a willful haunting conducted by Noxious Sector.
2011

 

Minding the Belly Brain
Large format digital inkjet print, IBVA brainwave sensor system, visualization software, laptop computer.
36” x 50”
2011

•Installation view at Noxious Sector projects in Seattle, WA.

 

Minding the Belly Brain
Large format digital inkjet print, IBVA brainwave sensor system, visualization software, laptop computer.
36” x 50”
2011

Minding the Belly Brain, meditation ritual exercising the agency of my belly brain using an IBVA brainwave sensor visualization system.

 

Belly Brain Waves
Digital poster presentation, IBVA brainwave sensor system, visualization software, laptop computer.
2011

Belly Brain Waves concept poster presented at Subtle Technologies in Toronto, ON. It depicts a proposal for creating a graphical language generated from overlapping brainwave activity from my head brain and my belly brain engaged in a telematic conversation.

 

Brains and Magnets – Japan, POV, Tsunami by Doug Jarvis
Noxious Sector project
Computer desktop screen capture video, monitor, head-set, DVD player.
2011
• Installation view of three screen-capture videos with sound, presented on television monitors. This was my contribution to the Noxious Sector exhibition Brains and Magnets with Ted Hiebert and Jackson 2Bears at Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB.

 

Of Brains and Magnets – Japan Mix by Doug Jarvis
Noxious Sector project
Documentation of computer desktop screen capture video, monitor, head-set, DVD player.
2011
• Screen capture video showing the artist in webcam view wearing a ring of rare earth magnets on top of an IBVA brainwave sensor strip that feeds the brain activity to a computer software program rendering the information as a wave graphic, along with a youtube video of tsunami videos from Japan.

 

Perimeter Visions
Noxious Sector project
Installation view
Dimensions variable
2010

• Installed in Tangible Spiritualities exhibit at DAW Xi'an 2010. The magnets in hat projects are responding to an experiment by Michael Persinger that involves stimulating the temporal lobes of test subjects with electromagnets inducing what participants claim is like a spiritual experience.

Perimeter Visions
Noxious Sector project
Detail of video projection
Dimensions variable
2010
• Noxious Sector performance action involving toques with rare-earth magnets repeatedly touching the tops of a chain-link fence. Presented with toques and scarves with magnets, and Utility-hole covers.

 

Lazy Pointer Beamed
Rear detail of Installation, multi-laser pointer projection, with light stands, mirrors, magnifying lenses, aluminum rods, metal clips, elastic bands, hot-glue, on plastic table cloth,
Dimensiona variable
2010

 

Lazy Pointer Beamed
Multiple laser pointer projection, with light stands, mirrors, magnifying lenses, aluminum rods, metal clips, elastic bands, hot-glue, on plastic table cloth,
Dimensions variable
2010
• Exhibited as part of Too Cool For School: Art & Science Exhibition. Group show curated by Sally McKay and Patrick Macaulay at the York Quay Gallery, Toronto, ON.

 



Don't mind the revelation
Installation view. Dual video projection installation with laser pointers, chip bags, hot-glue, picture frames, aluminum foil, wire-less security camera, magnets and paper screen.
Dimensiona variable
2010

 



Don't mind the revelation
Laser light lens flare created by shining a red laser pointer into a digital camera lens.
Dimensions variable
2010

 



Tran Spire Hairdoo paper sketch
Paper, hotglue, balsam wood, tape
3'x 1.5'x 1 '
2008
· Tran Spire Hairdoo is a paper sketch of my Second Life avatars hairdoo.

 



Crackerjack hand puppet
Snack wrapper, wrist cuff
8"x 5"x 3"
2008
· Cracker Jack hand puppet is an inside-out mylar snack wrapper that can be animated by hand gestures to look like a human face or animal head. The re-cycled packaging reverses the action of putting ones hand inside of the snack wrapper allowing the wrapper to talk back.

 



Black spot button
Black ink, button
Multiple, edition of 30
1 1/4" diameter
2007
· Black spot button is a black ink drawing on white paper that can sometimes resemble a human head, a chicken or a topographical map. Each button displays a different drawing playing with the ambiguity of a seemingly abstract inkblot.

 



Magnetically Inclined
Ted Hiebert, Doug Jarvis
Wide format ink-jet photo prints, from series of 12 images
36" x 20"
2007
· Magnetically Inclined is a Noxious Sector project collaboration with Ted Hiebert where we   experiment   with wearing rare-earth magnets in our toques to observe the effects on our brain activity as we explore our attractiveness to elements in Victoria's down town.

 



Wow! Tran Spire visits World of Warcraft.
Screen shot
2007
· Tran Spire, my avatar in Second Life embarked on a journey to try and visit another online 3D environment, the World of   Warcraft. The installation and tour consisted of photos and video documentation of actions in WoW and well as souvenir video capes. The video cape is an item in Tran Spires Op Art inspired fashion line for avatars.

 



Telekinesis competition
Noxious Sector project
Wide format ink-jet photo print
36" x 20"
2007
· Telekinesis Competition is a Noxious Sector project collaboration with Ted Hiebert, and Jackson 2bears. We competed against another team to telekinetically influence the direction of melting candle wax onto our opponent's section of the game board. Our team was in Victoria, BC, the opposing team was in London England and the official game board was in Toronto, ON. We will be hosting the 2008 World Telekinesis Competition this summer in Victoria, BC.

 



Second Front avatar performance art group
Documentation of Exibart.onpaper Italian print article by Domenico Quaranta
2007
· Tran Spire is my avatar and a founding member of Second Front , an avatar performance art group created by nine artists in Italy, England, Canada and the United States. We perform on a monthly basis in the online 3D environment of Second Life creating actions that critically play with the parameters and experience of virtual entities in networked communities and spaces.

 



Bamsey Franks ride the green wave
Grass, dirt, plywood, 2x4's
12" x 4' x 6'
2007
· Bamsey Franks ride the green wave is an earthwork collaboration with David Gifford. We constructed a plywood ramp covered with sod that appears to continue through the front window of the gallery space.

 



It's all in my head
Artist book published by Perro Verlag Books by Artists
8" x 5"
2007
· It's all in my head was published by Perro Verlag Books by Artists as a companion to my exhibit of the same name at the Access ARC Project space in January 2007.

 



If ears had walls
Colour Xerox photo prints, ongoing series
17" x 11"
2007
· If ears had walls is an ongoing project that documents the action of putting my ear against different walls to visually imagine the shape and size of the wall based on what I am able to hear and feel resonating from the wall itself.

 



Hypercube Drop and Toss
Mary-Anne McTrowe, Doug Jarvis
Colour Xerox photo prints, series of four
17" x 11"
2006
· Hypercube Drop and Toss is a collaboration with Mary-Anne McTrowe performed during the Future of Idea Art residency at the Banff Centre in 2006. Mary-Anne and I passed drawing's of a hypercube back and forth playing with variation on the theme. This version was created from 48 orange tissue paper tubes thrown into the air attempting to draw a hypercube. We performed this as a re-enactment of John Baldessari's series of photographs documenting his attempts to draw geometric shapes from balls being thrown up into the air.

 



Drop the ball
Still from video animation
2006
· Drop the ball is a video animation created by dropping a sequence of 32 red tissue paper disks from the 3 rd floor balcony of the JPL building at the Banff Centre down towards the video camera below. I removed the blank spaces between each falling disk to achieve the final animation of a fluttering and folding red spot wafting and weaving through the air currents.

 



Dowsing for failure
Still image collage from documentation video of dowsing process used for selection of artworks in curatorial project
2006
· Dowsing for failure was a curatorial collaboration with Ted Hiebert. We constructed dowsing rods from instructions found on the Internet to aid in the selection process of proposals submitted in response to an open call for works addressing failure.

 



Solar powered pen
multiple (edition unlimited) , solar panel, motor, alligator clips, sticky putty, pen
14" x 3" x 1"
2004
· Solar powered pen   was created from a solar power car kit that I purchased at the Salt Spring Island market. I connected a pen to the axel of the motor with sticky putty to create a spinning drawing device that was powered by the solar panel when exposed to sunlight. I created a series of drawings using the pen to harness the suns energy collaborating in the creation of the images. 

 

Double Rainbow
Xerox Colour Photo series
Each image 8" x 8"
2004
· Double Rainbow is an image from an installation entitled Solar power, Blind Spots, Floaters and Black holes . This series exhibited a variety of images documenting actions and phenomena captured or created while exploring ideas inspired from physics.

 



Shoot out the star game
multiple (edition unlimited), ink-jet iron-on transparency, T-shirt
4.5" x 3"
2004
· Shoot out the star game is a t-shirt decal multiple created from a pellet rifle drawing done at the "Shoot out the star game" booth at the Sannich Fair, Vancouver Island, BC.

 



Gravity drawing
helium balloon, ribbon, Sharpie, note pad
dimensions variable,
2004
· Gravity drawing is a drawing device that employs a helium balloon and gravity to create a single point ink spot drawing on a notepad of paper. The subsequent result is a stratified series of ink blots forming a three-dimensional drawing through the pages of the note pad.

 


 
How-to
installation view, two panel ink-jet poster, flip-book, metal chain
dimensions variable,
2003
· How-To is an investigation into the public presentation of text signifying personal expression. Two different text passages were presented as posters in the gallery window to explore notions of subjective and objective interpretation. A flip-book containing Google searches of the terms contained on the posters was created to hang outside of the gallery door, accessible to viewers passing by.

 



Viewing Sphere
video documentation still, Galleria Mall, London, Ontario
Plexiglas, metal carriage, casters, video armature, video camera, television,
4' x 4' x 7'
1993
· Viewing Sphere was built as a mobile interactive environment to explore personal and public space. Using video cameras and armatures the participant is able to investigate the space inside and outside of the sphere. P articipant stands inside of the sphere, adjusting vertical and horizontal perspective of exterior video camera via lever controls, observing on internal television monitor.

 



360º Video Armature
video documentation still, Galleria Mall, London, Ontario
VHS Video Camera, aluminum, leather, plexiglas, shopping bag, bricks
3' x 3' x 2'
1993
· The 360º shoulder mounted armature construction allows a video camera to rotate entirely around the participants head balanced by a bag of bricks. The video recording could be viewed afterwards on a television monitor providing the opportunity to see a 360º version of ones head on TV.

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