mark-beasley.com

ad nauseam

Thu, 12 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500

a moment

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500

drawing the corner of a room

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500

teaching a water faucet how to be a waterfall

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

The whole is other than the sum of its parts (thesis exhibition)

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

The whole is other than the sum of its parts is an interactive documentation of a collection of works made from 2011-2013 presented at my thesis exhibition in the spring of 2013. The project is a summary of a collection of smaller gestures that move towards a body of work I developed throughout graduate school, exploring the relationship between culture and technology; how we become users, inhabit systems and express through them.

Various pieces were installed and documented via panoramic video and then deinstalled. The spot where the works were capture was replaced with a large touch screen browser. Acting as a meta-frame, the project poses some of the questions that are present in the collection of work as well as complicating the overall experience of the interior works. As the title suggests, the act of collecting and presenting is seen as a more reflexive way to not only bookend the various works made but to complicate the presentation and reception of a thesis project. Surface elements work against its usage, interrupting the (potentially) immersive interior space by drawing attention to the surface of the screen and one's role as user.

Themes for these onscreen interruptions are sourced from dreams of/about/involving computers transcribed within a large online dream journal community.

peer to peer sunset

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600

http://duskjacket.com/SUNSET/

peer to peer sunset is a website that anonymously connects two people together to view a sunset. The site is activated by two users individually visiting the site. As an active removal of the hyper-mediated contemporary web, the only indication of another body is the progression of the sunset. If the connection is lost the site becomes grayscale. There is also an option to invite someone by generating a custom url.

following in the shadow of a cloud for as long as possible until dispersal or impasse

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600

Illusory performance

attenuation

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600

p2pTV, ethernet cord, flatscreens, windows macro selecting most popular channel every 15min.

motionless performance

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Motion detector. 15:12 clip.

WATERTABLE

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500

multi-touch screen, water ripple app, leaf, boxfan.