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Produced for ICPL in conjunction with May’s Weber Days, this documentary looks at the making of the statue on Iowa and Linn.

A redesign of ICPL’s Library Channel message board. The Events calendar pulls current meeting room information from the Events Manager database. Built in Flash.

This electronic display was developed as a way for the staff to easily publish monthly news and content in a public environment. The message board pulls public domain videos from archive.org, displays which of the staff are currently at the help desk, what equipment is checked out or not, and it also has a tickertape […]

Intervideo is a 5-disc DVD set we produced for Hans Breder in conjunction with the exhibition, “The Modernist Debate” at Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. The University of Iowa Libraries’ Special Collection Department is home to the entire Artists’ Television Network video archive produced by Jaime Davidovich in New York from 1978-1983. We […]

Produced by Community Architexts Chicago/ Los Angeles Visit the Work-Shift website for more information. Read the script. based on audio and written interviews in the collection of the State Historical Society of Iowa library. The soundscape is a digital collage which is constructed of layers of archival machine sounds and workers’ voices, submerging and emerging […]

ALLOY is an artist’s book that weaves together human and computer generated writing to create a quasi-fictional textbook for use in the studio or classroom. It was created out of dozens of passages, quotes, memories, ramblings, and scraps of information pieced together using a custom computer program for mixing text. The first 100 words: “Electricity […]

Projecting Information into the Distant Future Launch: October 18, 2001. 16:30 GMT International Center, Iowa City (Latitude 41.66 & Longitude -91.53) Calling all time-travelers. By creating this document to be institutionally archived as well as passed on as personal heirlooms we are sending you a message. If time-travel is possible when you are reading this […]

Scavenged snippets of damaged library A/V material reconstituted into an impressionistic video narrative about ‘helping.’ Displayed as single channel video as well as multiple monitor installation. Winner of the Juror’s Choice Award at the 2001 Film and Video Retrospective, Des Moines Art Center.

Composite was a painting installation at the University of Iowa’s Checkered Space. Danielle and Kelli created two large vinyl banners with bingo daubers. Nathan produced a series of palm-sized iconic paintings. Matthew created this computer display to demonstrate a way to classify and access their work via a handcrafted electronic catalog. By clicking on one of […]