A Socially-Distanced Interactive Installation A socially-distanced interactive installation in the works, “Self Portrait” is to be composed of a video sculpture and walls filled with images: images of people; of friends; of family. Read more
Theatre, an art form founded on the concept of physical closeness, on the gathering and the witnessing of live bodies in space, and on the communal experience of shared, lived events, demands togetherness. And in the time of COVID-19, where being together in the traditional ways is impossible, theatre is in crisis. Read more
Who are my biggest influences? It’s a dreaded prompt. Inquiries such as these often imply deep soul-searching evenings and endless grant application re-writes… Yes I know I like the Expressionists, but do they influence my work? Do I think of them when I paint? What does it even mean to be influenced? But. But what if you could just — get an objective response? No talk of process or who you admire or who you grew up with plastered on your wall — just a quantifiable, numerical answer? Read more
A Study on Memory, Loss, and Human Resilience (Un)twined was conceived, designed/programmed, and presented by John Baylies and myself as the final project for our 7010 course in the PIMA program at Brooklyn College in December 2018. Built from scratch and run from Max/MSP through a Touch OSC interface on my phone, this project explored the losses we had each experienced in our recent adult lives, touching on memory of loved ones, of home, and of what it means to be a family. Read more
A Satire of Western Academic Progress Narratives This piece features a pitch-shifted “vaping professor” drag version of myself giving a lecture on the topic of progress from Aristotle to Kuhn. Read more
An Installation with the Weeksville Heritage Center This was a community event involving an outdoor party with music and food and an installation inside one of the Historic Hunter Fly Road houses at the Weeksville Heritage Center. The project was meant to help celebrate the history of the house, and to bring “the past into the present.” Read more
A Collaborative 20-min, One-Shot Film During a week-long workshop with renowned french filmic theatre director Cyril Teste and his team, the gathered collective created a single-shot 20-minute film inspired by the architecture and presence of an historic home at The Weeksville Heritage Center. Read more
Immersive Theatre as a live 3D Video Game I created lookingGlass, an experiment in digital theatre through live 3D gaming originally as my MFA thesis when in-person performance became unsafe in March. It has since been performed for OyeDrum Magazine, as part of the ReclaimFutures conference in September, and in October for EdgeCut. Read more
A video piece for the Fairfield County Chorale December event FCC Presents, Gifts. In honor of this Season of Lights, join the 100-member Fairfield County Chorale for a unique online streaming event — FCC Presents, Gifts — offering an artistic and meaningful exploration of choral music in a digital setting with a truly global reach. Read more
For this Interactive Theatrical Experience put on by The Heights Players of NYC, I created a WebGL 2.0 Unity game and corresponding server to support their filmic take on the classic choose-your-own-adventure-style narrative. Read more
I was invited to give a 2-hr interactive demonstration of how the program MaxMSP works and how to use it, giving performance examples from my own practice. Read more
Taken from a syllabus I created for a class called “The Dialectics of Dissent – Theatrical Performance as Political Action,” this sample class from the course, which I taught to my fellow PIMA students, covered artwork and performative statements created during and around the WTO protests in Seattle (1999). Read more
I was asked to present a segment on lookingGlass, the live video game I created for my MFA thesis in May, as a part of a conversation on creating experimental virtual theatre. Read more
I met her in passing and passed by for months. It was a January when we first talked, or first listened at least. Us two hiding together in the bathroom because we’d only paid for 4 in the hotel; there’s a picture marking our first day of friendship. Read more
A podium with a decorative potted plant, a white board behind. Enter Professor Stewart-Orwell Teric III (it’s me in Young Vaping Academic drag, holding enormous book “Sociology of Philosophy”). Bowtie, snazzy jacket, etc.) Sorry, sorry class – just have to finish this text to Judy – and send – oh, to Judith Butler I mean… Read more
Our first stop is in Milan, Italy, with a cyber-security tester who creates Max for Live devices such as FLEX, POLYDRIP 2, HOLYPOLY, and NEXT for use in improvisatory breakbeat/jungle/dance musical production and performance under the name Weightausend. Read more
A bell rings. A teacher in a skirt, large Southern floral prints, and clunky, uncomfortable heels clink clacks in. [turn] Students fill in to their desk seats which are arranged all in rows facing the front of the room. Read more
I am silent as I pull into the drive, the house coming into view from behind the trees as I turn the corner. The final corner after a long, long drive. I am silent, also, as I make my way up the little path to the old familiar door, and when I put the key into the lock, I see that my hand is shaking. I pause, I lean my head into the comfort of the solid, stable door. Then, turning the key, I let the old hinges swing the door open. Read more
“What It Means to Be Free,” created and performed by Willow Lautenberg at United Solo, is a piece of documentary theatre that takes a look at one man’s experiences with mental illness, the criminal justice system, and the abstract concept of freedom.” Read more
‘So shines a good deed in a weary world,’ whispered Gene Wilder in the 1971 film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. ‘So shines a good deed,’ indeed, whispers Mr. Redmond’s performance today. Read more