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net artist, garden pest
scraper/scholar of media, metadata,
oversight &counterintelligibility
i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz
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i fixed one of my early pieces that had broken (i wonder for how long!) ip collage (2002-) is an additive image: when you load the page, it plots your ip(v4) address as a shape transposing the four 8-bit words to a rectangle's position/size (x,y,width,height) and color (r,g,b,a).
many layered overlapping rectangles of varying colors and translucency. the upper left quadrant is mostly blue, the upper right pinks and reds, lower right pale lavender, lower left greens and turquoise.
November 23, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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"Matters" "and Retention", remnants of recognition of prehearing questions posed to Michael Pompeo at his 2017 nomination hearing to run the CIA. Among the findings produced by my project that is at / (Slash) Arts SF thru mid-Dec.
An image of a paper document in which most letters have been reduced to unrecognizable fragments. The only legible text is italicized and underlined, reading, "Matters" near the top of the page and, "and Retention" near the middle of the page.
November 13, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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might need to flip a consonant, but John Heartfield's 1932 classic "millions are behind me" comes to mind
The cover of an issue of AIZ (Workers Illustrated Magazine) from 1932. Hitler stands facing the right with his hand facing upwards. Behind him and about three times larger than him is a banker placing paper currency in the hand, inverting the connotation of "millions" from people to money.
October 26, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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investigations and scorn.
a white page of paper with hard lines at the edge, indicating that it's a photocopy. partial remnants of letters dot the page. the only legible text is about 60% down the page reading "invesetigations and scorn."
October 6, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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this book (Garfield: His Nine Lives) messed me up as a kid
In the left frame, a seated elderly Black woman looks off the page wild holding a child's drawing that says "grand[...]", a speech bubble reads "Come play with Maw Maw". In the right frame, a feral looking cat with yellow eyes is leaping towards the woman, teeth bared and claws extended.
August 13, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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I never cared about it or even walking at commencement until I saw faculty in full regalia placing themselves between students and cops at the ucsc wildcat strike in 2020. It changed my stance on symbolic power. Broke and sick, I still bought regalia from a 3rd party company for me and my partner.
two smiling people in blue academic regalia. both wear glasses, the one on the right is also wearing a lei.
May 19, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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original meme, which wasn't ever that popular
a photo of princess diana with the text: In a world full of Kardashians, be Diana.
January 8, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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had to dig through the vaults for this one. i know deanna troi was the obvious pick, but...
a photo of Diana, the evil alien scientist from the miniseries "V" (1993), with text that reads "in a world full of Cardassians, be Diana"
January 8, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Who will change the world?
A still from the train scene in Slatan Dudow's Kuhle Wampe (1932), a young woman faces the camera. Closed caption text reads: "Those who are not satisfied!"
December 30, 2023 at 7:56 PM
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My menu looks like this
December 12, 2023 at 6:48 PM
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an image of lester freamon from the tv show "the wire"
December 1, 2023 at 3:12 AM
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the "bad joke eel" meme image with top text "I have the attention of a goldfish" and bottom text "it's been watching me for several minutes now."
July 15, 2023 at 7:28 PM
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was the entirety of the Charlie's Ants tract but like this
A hand drawn comic with two panes, in the first a girl with a ponytail is speaking to a frazzles boy in glasses. She gives advice about a conflict with a landlord. He asks her to clean his feet. Shre responds with a remark interrupted by an alarm clock. In the second pane, a close-up of the girl's face. She says: "Fucked up" and "Face book frog".
July 5, 2023 at 6:17 PM
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a baby California quail nestled into concave section at the back of a lime green apple iMac computer, its eyes are closed.
July 5, 2023 at 6:27 AM