Made in honor of my toilet seat's remarkable sonic resemblance to the on 1990 hit song Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe on the occassion of moving out of my apartment of eight years in March 2018. This video was posted to facebook here, and twitter here.
AESTHETIC CATHARSIS IN THE ERA OF AMERICAN FASCISTS TRAILER
Using the failed assassination of Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. to impress Jodie Foster as a hyperreal precedent to our post-truth present, Aesthetic Catharsis in the Era of American Fascists is a video essay by James Connolly that examines the racial, psychological, and image-based power structures behind contemporary American politics.
ARIADNE/CATES/CONNOLLY/KOLAR BUMPER
Bumper for ARIADNE/CATES/CONNOLLY/KOLAR evening of performances at Digital Art Demo Space in Chicago.
TCC DIGITAL ART BUFFET DIAGRAM
For TCC Chicago's Digital Buffet I've put together some animated gif previews of a work in progress titled American Fascist Fucks in RGB (With Omissions) that examines the degradation of political and social discourse on the internet while cathartically processing political spectacle through analog electromagnetic signal using a wobbulator built by Jason Bernagozzi.
GLI.TC/H 20111 DIGITAL BUMPER
A bumper for the 2011 GLI.TC/H Festival.
GLI.TC/H 2010
A bumper for the 2010 GLI.TC/H Festival.
SMILES CHECKERS BARGAINS, 2010
A glitch short made in 2010.
APOCALYPTIC MOOSE BURN, 2009
A video made using VDMX for Jon Satrom's realtime class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I am a Chicago-based artist, educator, museum worker, and archivist. My videos, open-source tools, and real-time audio/video performances undermine the interfaces and break through the algorithms of digital and analog systems, examining hidden power structures and liberating latent aesthetic materialities in cathartic and captivating compositions.
September 10, 2022, 8:30 pmCRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL
August 13, 2022, 8:30 pmCRT Flux Phaser/RGB.VGA.VOLT and Cracked Ray Tube performance at The Latent Space for the "Control Signals" exhibition performance series, Chicago, IL
August 6, 2022, 7:00 pm opening for "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL
August 6 - September 10, 2022 "Control Signals" solo exhibition at The Latent Space, Chicago, IL
October 13, 2020Phasing the electromagnetic flux of another shit moment, February 4, 2020 screened at BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain
August 15 - September 26, 2020 installation at "New Media 10101" at the Peninsula School of Art
April 2017Universal Codec Error Aborting Video and Ball Skills/Waveforms/White Bro Riots screened at "VIGOROUS—a series of shorts" at Mini Microcinema, Cincinnati, OH.
1.23.2014-3.7.2014: Cracked Ray Tube performance for Discarded: The Afterlife of Everyday Electronics at Columbia College's Arcade Gallery, Chicago, IL.
11.23.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for DINCA VISION QUEST at Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
9.30.2013: Jon Cates and James Connolly at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL.
6.21.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for mACREs & brACREs at Landscape, Chicago, IL.
5.30.2013: Articular Facet collaborative performance at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL.
4.30.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance with Dither Doom at the Empty Bottle, Chicago.
4.28.2013: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance for Expanded Cinematic at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
2.15.2013: Universal Codec Error Aborting Video screened for the Floating World Animation Festival at the Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA.
1.12.2013: Collaborative John Cage-influenced performance with Julia Miller and Enid Smith at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
12.8.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the GLI.TC/H DeFunct/ReFunct thread, Chicago, IL.
12.7.2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at GLI.TC/H Open Robin at Tritriangle, Chicago, IL
12.5.2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance of John Cage's Variations VI, organized by Julia Miller at the Leroy Neiman Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
10.19.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Vancouver New Music Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia.
9.14.2012: Essay on Spectralina published, the catalog for the exhibition Afterimage at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL.
10.14.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at Bernadette's, Austin, TX.
4.14.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance of Jon Cage's Variations V score organized by Julia Miller at Room 300, Chicago, IL.
3.6.2012: VGA Audio/Video Synthesizer performance at the Burlington bar, Chicago, IL.
2.19.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN.
2.16.2012: Cracked Ray Tube wins 2nd place at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
2.16.2012: Cracked Ray Tube performance at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
