meme01

This will be a quick one. I returned to the states having had my attempts at regular blogging foiled by a population far too concerned with home network security. Seriously, the only networks I found were at major hotels and they were very expensive. 

The net results of the trip include 1000+ images, a bunch of HD video and audio field recordings. Needless to say. I’ll be in serious image and video edit mode once the semester starts.

Here are a few teaser images from the trip.

Prora, facing the beach from the roof of the building

Prora, old wallpaper

I leave for Berlin this afternoon to then pick ups car and Head up to Prora to commense a new project. The site is home to a never completed Nazi resort. The scale is immense as it was intended to house 22,000 vacationers. From what I understand, it is partially in ruins. It is my intent to make some new work which explores the site as an example of architecture used to push forward a political ideology. We’ll see. I hope to post more images and in process thoughts.

 we, a collaborative work by  Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Dale Kaminski and I will be shown at the John Michael Kohler Center of the Arts in Sheboygan, WI. The piece is a part of the exhibition Under Surveillance. The exhibition is open from June 29-September 28th. 

we  is an audio surveillance work which collects sound from an array of six microphones attached to weather balloons. The signals are fed to a listening station which reprocesses and combines the samples while maintaining the privileged position of the listener. The piece is inspired by the dystopic novel We by  Yevgeny Zamyatin. 

A quick update and I have to get back to the hospital. The news is Liora Bella was born on 2/17/08 at 11:00 p.m. after a brief 2 hour labor. She is 8lbs and 20.5 inches long. Enjoy the pics. Mat
  Go see more images at Liora’s site. 

So…I finally have the studio about 90% unpacked which is good because deadlines for work are fast approaching. Foremost on my mind is the arrival of daughter number two. It is a matter of days and we are all quite excited. As for the art, I’m working frantically to get an installation and curated dvd out to the digital media show in Spain. After that I’ll begin work on my paper for the Center for International Education Conference/UW-Milwaukee. I’m working on a piece about public ephemeral media art. I’ll write more as it solidifies.   

Ok, so today the movers are here in Milwaukee packing us for the relocation to Chicago, so in an inspired [read insane] moment of web activity I have relaunched meme01 as a blog. You can still find the old site linked in my blogroll.