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Books I have made
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Examples of several books I have made recently. The trip books have screen printed covers, the contents are typewriter text and in some, photocopies of photos from travels throughout the United States. I like to bring elements of zine aesthetic into my book work and I always enjoy placing emphasis on the handmade, despite my knowledge of Photoshop and other computer programs for making book layout and design. In a lot of these projects the process of building and planning a book by hand is in itself a big part of the work. As such, these books are unique records of the experience of the artist, as well as the process of recording that experience - and the transformation that occurs when personal moments, memories and knowledge are preserved on the page and then revealed to others.
"Local Heros" --- Type-Only Cookbook
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Designing a cookbook can be among the hardest of typographic challenges. The finished product has to be aesthetically-pleasing enough to attract potential purchasers, yet clear and concise enough to function as a kind of "how-to" manual, that most any literate person can easy navigate through and cook from.
This assignment is to produce a prototype of a contemporary text-only cookbook. The goal in this assignment is to revitalize the text-only cookbook by producing something that, despite its lack of imagery, is nonetheless both beautiful and functional.
Book Size: 7.5" x 10.5"
Path
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PATH is a 12 volume bookwork with text generated by the physical movement of an anonymous individual living in the city of Montreal between 2005-2007. Each time this individual accessed the internet using public wi-fi over the course of this 2 year period they were tagged wiuth a textual passage exploring themes of visual, personal, and spatial patterns as reflected in the lives of fictional characters.
[SPAM]
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[SPAM] bombards the viewer with text and images parsed from spam email messages received by the artist on a daily basis.
*glisten) HIVE
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*glisten) HIVE is a project mapping local and global conversations about animal consciousness in an audio-video interactive installation using computer algorithms that mimic social-insect swarming patterns of movement and sound.
Seedwind
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A visualization of concept sharing within a small group deployed at Interactive Futures 2007. Participants send text messages which are mapped according the frequency from bottom to top. Each participant is represented as a Milkweed seed with as many strands as text messages submitted. The seeds float in a simulated wind and are lofted by their own text submissions as they intersect. Seeds with more strands have more levity. Seeds with similar submissions are attracted to one another.
flowerGarden
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Inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting Flowergarden (1905), flowerGarden is an interactive visualization of social networking and concept sharing occurring within a group of 30 to 80 individuals.
Aurora
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Inspired by the ebb and flow dance of the Northern Lights that frequent the skies above The Banff Centre, this image is a visualization of the evolution of the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) discourse in their first decade.
