Video Art & Installation
Three Trees: Installation, 2016
Running Time: 1:47 mins
Color/ Sound - Projection Loop
Using video projection and projection mapping, Three Trees illustrates the passage of time, and explores the ownership of space, experiences, and memory. It showcases the unrelenting forces that shape the landscape around us, both natural and human made.
Do the places that linger longingly in our memories truly belong to us?
Documentation by Adam Simmons. www.twelvizm.com
Created using: Adobe Photoshop
Edited on: Adobe Premiere CC
Music: "Nascence", by Austin Wintory. austingwintory.bandcamp.com
Original music for Journey. thatgamecompany.com
Green Trellis, 2016
Running Time: 1:38 mins
Color/ Sound - Projection Loop
"Green Trellis" happily describes my false childhood memories of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building, located in downtown Portland, Oregon.
2 channel video projection with stereo sound.
"Harpsi-Piano" by mathgrant, used in the original installation as well as the documentation video.
freemusicarchive.org/music/mathgrant
Edited on: Adobe Premiere CC , DragonFrame
Boho Whimsical Soft Grunge Ophelia, 2015
(Left Video) Running Time: 0:34 secs / (Right Video) 1:05 mins
Color/ Sound - Multimedia Sculpture
This video sculpture, made of fake flowers and a tablet, critiques the romanticization of Ophelia’s mental illness and eventual suicide (from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”). The rampant glamorization and fixation on Ophelia’s beauty and purity is evident in pop culture as well as antiquated sources such as John Everett Millais’ “Ophelia” (1852). This sculpture presents the overwhelming amount of photos, music, and paintings that reference Ophelia for her beauty and romanticize the tragedy of her death, without paying attention to her mental illness and the horrible reality of her suicide. The montage of photos are overlaid with hashtags that originally accompanied the photos (sourced from tumblr.com), with three additions that did not appear in the tags: Mental Illness, Depression, and Suicide. These three tags were added to give contrast to the original tags and create a juxtaposition with the beautiful and serene imagery. The images are displayed as a rapid montage to keep viewers from fixating on one image for too long. It demonstrates that all the images are, in essence, exactly the same. The sampled song is “Sweet Ophelia”, by Zella Day.
Filmed on: Canon T31
Edited on: Adobe Premiere
How To Survive (Installation Documentation), 2015
Running Time: 5:02 min
Color/ Sound - Multi-channel projection video installation
"How to Survive" illustrates the effects of anxiety disorders created in childhood and sustained through adulthood, as well as commenting on the coping mechanisms that are developed in response to the sustained stress. Safe spaces, triggers, and memories are explored. The sonic landscape seeks to navigate the self pep-talks and internalized thought processes that occur before, during, and after a panic attack.
Filmed on: Canon EOS 60D
Edited on: Adobe Premiere
How To Survive II, 2015
Running Time: 4:27 min
Color / Sound
(A single channel version of the multi-channel projection video installation)
"How to Survive II" illustrates a flattened view of the same imagery and stimuli that the original installation used.
Filmed on: Canon EOS 60D
Edited on: Adobe Premiere
Duality, 2015
Running Time: 2:42 mi
Color / Sound - Projection Loop
This installation premiered at PNCA's "First Thursday" exhibition on March 5th, 2015. It was projected onto the ceiling in the main hallway within a recess in the architecture.
"Duality" was also projected at PNCA's Grand Opening on March 20th, 2015.
Filmed on: Canon 5D EOS Mark II
Edited with: Adobe Premiere, After Effects
Colorful Language, 2015
Running Time: 1:10 min
Color / Sound
This is a segment created for PNCATV's Episode 1: Color. The video consists of 1,440 pictures randomly sourced from Tumblr and Google, with the results stemming from 60 words that were randomly generated. The trend seemed to be that Tumblr showed results that were more figurative, while Google's results were rather literal.
Edited on: Adobe Premiere CC
Self Portrait in Simulacra, 2015
Running Time: 1:10 min
Color / Sound
After taking a picture of myself with a digital camera and using it as reference for a self portrait in watercolor, I traced that original watercolor again with paint, using a light box and a fresh sheet of paper. Then, I traced the second iteration of the portrait again in the same way, on a new piece of paper. I continued this process 22 times, ending up with a portrait that no longer resembled me and barely even hinted at a human form. These 23 images in total were compiled into this video file, with the final piece taking form as the last 8.5 x 11″ watercolor painting.
In tracing each iteration of the portrait, I eventually lost the “original” in my process, separating the forms that were created over and over again and essentially creating “nothing”. The subject matter was destroyed, and in its wake left something entirely different to be considered: the simple gesture and bleeding colors could potentially be far more representative of an individual’s essence than any detailed depiction of their visage ever could.
Edited on: Adobe Premiere CC
Memory, Structured, 2014
Running Time: 1:53 min
Color / Sound
A formal exercise to create a video based on a set of rules that were predetermined.
Rules:
Videos must gradate through the color spectrum without a heavy use of color correction.
New footage cannot be shot for this project. I must utilize old footage that I have shot myself.
Editing will take place in a predetermined pattern.
Filmed on: Canon 5D EOS Mark II
Edited with: Adobe Premiere, After Effects