PROJECTS

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD–now launched!
www.jackrabbithomestead.com

Jackrabbit Homestead is a book and Web-based multimedia presentation featuring a downloadable car audio tour exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California's Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. The book was published in December 2009 by the Center for American Places. [Read Project Synopsis]

INVISIBLE-5
www.invisible5.org

Invisible-5 is a self-guided audio car tour investigating the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. Collaboratively produced, this free, downloadable audio project was supported by the Creative Work Fund. [Read Project Synopsis]

SAFE AS MOTHER'S MILK: THE HANFORD PROJECT
www.hanfordproject.com

The Hanford Project is a Website and physical installation examining the atomic history of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation through declassified historic photos, media and documents available online through the Department of Energy’s Hanford Website. The project was originally commissioned for Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA) ART + ACTIVISM Visiting Artist Series in 2002. [Read Project Synopsis]

GREETINGS FROM THE SALTON SEA
www.greetingsfromsaltonsea.com

Greetings from the Salton Sea is a book, physical installation, and Website project documenting the cultural and environmental history of the Salton Sea, a multi-challenged saline body of water located in southern California near the Mexican border. Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005 was published by the Center for American Places in 2005. [Read Project Synopsis]

SALMONCITY.NET
www.salmoncity.net

Salmoncity.net is an educational Website created for Salmon in the City, a series of thirteen temporary community art projects administered through the Seattle Arts Commission. Each creative project (film, poetry, sculpture, theater and other media) responded to the 2000 ESA (Endangered Species Act) listing of Puget Sound Chinook salmon as regionally threatened. Projects were presented during the summer of 2001 throughout the Seattle metropolitan area.

THE CIVITELLA RANIERI HISTORICAL SCAVENGER HUNT
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The Civitella Ranieri Historical Scavenger Hunt is a Website documenting a site-specific event—a scavenger hunt based on the history a medieval Italian castle located in the Umbrian province—organized during a spring 2000 artist residency I attended at the Civitella Ranieri Center hosted by the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

THE CHARMED HORIZON
www.thecharmedhorizon.com

The Charmed Horizon explores the nature of desire through a series of sequential interactive tableau inspired by an excerpt from nineteenth century French writer, Lautreamont's The Chants of Maldoror. This project was selected as Best Art-Related Website for the 1999 SXSW Interactive Web Competition.

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC CONSTRUCTIONS
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The Photographic Constructions are an earlier body of work incorporating photography and found objects within a three-dimensional assemblage. Conceptually these pieces explore personal narratives, spirituality, and feminist issues through appropriated art historical constructs.