I'm developing my years of research into Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge into "Around Crab Orchard," a video essay looking at nature, secrecy, and militarism at one site in southern Illinois.

I am working with Nicholas Brown to expand and prepare the book "Re-Collecting Blackhawk" for publication.

2011 :: 2010 :: 2009 :: 2008 :: 2007 :: 2006 :: 2005 :: 2004

2007 Projects

What the Market Bares (with Dara Greenwald)
Site-specific video installation for a bus concerning labor migration and material culture. Produced as an artist in residence for "The Return of the Gastarbeiter" in Kucevo, Serbia

Documentation video (5.6 mb/mov)
Original video with subtitles (5.9 mb/mov)

Driving East Through Indian Country: Blackhawk Chapter (with Nicholas Brown)
Ongoing project examining mobility and American mythologies; this chapter looks into the visual culture around the Black Hawk War in Wisconsin and Illinois

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Don't Mourn
Non-linear Flash essay documenting a series of low-power memorials to episodes of violent labor strikes in Illinois. Published in the online performance studies journal, Liminalities 3.3

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Solar Micropower Transmitter Network
Proposal for a distributed network of solar microbroadcasting transmitters. Each unit can be made for less than $50.

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Zine (pdf)

Massacres and Mine Wars
Photo essay on the culture of labor memory in Southern Illinois. Published in Failure! Experiments in Aesthetics and Social Practices

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