Pup tent camera obscuras. Two pup tents with knapsacks for solo trips: recovered vintage materials, darkout fabric, a set of simple lenses for close up and distant views. Tent footprint each 1.5 m x 2.1 m. Created for Imagine Our Parks, installations with selected participants in summer 2016.
Krista and I are writing about on our upcoming experiment over at Imagineourparks.org. In our first post, we write about how “The Perfect Moment” started as a tongue-in-cheek response to the US’s NEA/NPS call for…
Using the central skylight in a gallery as a starting point, Jamie Drouin and I direct frequencies into the Open Space Arts Society space using simple lenses, mirrors and antennae. (2011-2013).
A modified swing-lens Kodak Panoram broken and rebuilt to reconsider the interface between time and space in photographic embodiments.
An ongoing performed archive and exhibitions (2009-) documenting the productive failure of re-enactments of photographs in mountain environments of Canadian National Parks.
Portable Camera Obscura is an immersive technology. It is a walk-in, room-sized camera – a tent that breaks into multiple pieces to refigure relations between people, images and materials.
This work resulted in a two-volume set of books published by flask, and a paper presentation at the International Visual Sociology Association in summer 2009.
The Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective explores the boundaries of anthropology and art through exhibitions, experimental installations, events and publications. Working since 2009, we’ve shown more than 150 artists in locations across North America.
A digital composite print of International Boundary Survey 1874 (GM Dawson) “From the North Shore” and 2009 butterfly migration, with an academic reprint of the Anthropologica paper, ‘Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park’. Limited edition artist book 9×12″.
The Breath Camera is a wearable camera form about impermanence: camera bellows, viewing screen, and a 3 x 9 foot darkcloth mix the fleshy with the fleeting.
