POLITICAL AND PROTEST ARTS Below is a collection of political and protest related graphics I created throughout the years. Viewers were encouraged to download, alter and freely distribute the images. Some of the images were very popular in various protests against the Iraq War in San Francisco which I was arrested for civil disobedience. Most of the…
VIEW FULL PROJECT AT THIS LINK BACKGROUND: In 2002, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in San Francisco held a one night fashion catwalk event that paired the Bay Area Now 3 artists with local designers to create one-of-a-kind clothing item. I was lucky to be paired with the super talented Alissa Anderson. During that time…
VIEW FULL PROJECT AT www.GlobalElection.org ARTIST STATEMENT: Global Presidential Election enables you to vote for a global leader from a pool of fourteen dictators using a voting system based upon the model of American democracy. The goal of this project is to examine the rhetoric surrounding America’s favorite buzzword, Democracy. With the current state of international relationships…
VIEW FULL PROJECT AT THIS LINK HISTORY 11111111…11111111.com (Sixties One Dot Com 食屎第一得金) began as a conceptual apolitical net.art project. The original concept is to question the power of viral marketing by producing a “User-Unfriendly” website with a unique URL address, heavy graphical elements and rich scripts. After the horrendous events of 9/11 Terrorist Attack and…
ARTIST STATEMENT: Dr. Optimator’s 60X1.CAM (UIWSSHS) is an interactive installation that utilizes web technology to examine the voyeuristic nature of internet surfing as well as the conflicting relationship of virtual and given reality. In the installation, the gallery itself is monitored by three separate web cams and streamed online at http://www.60CAM.com/ (now obsolete). The devises in…
