When the theater puts up fireworks by itself, an imaginary cinema rises from a woman's eyes as a vision.

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"This is a total banger." -James Hansen

Selection piece (Cycle Desktopsongs)  Simonsong is a video piece, a musical system that exists only through a visual process, in this case a mockery of technological hegemony in the arts, and particularly in the world of contemporary music. In the most trivial representation of the digital tool, up to 16 384 "mousists" (plastic mouse interpreters) play virtuosos in the way of the child's game Simon.  Desktopsongs is a cycle of video pieces questioning our relationship with technology. Each work, inspired by desktop movie practice, is a musical system dependent on a visual process. The cycle includes Screensong, questioning data collection related to privacy, Simonsong, questioning technological hegemony in the world of contemporary music, and Playpausesong, questioning mass media consumption. 

WARNING: WORK HAS BRIGHT FLASHES & COLOURS. 

In the early morning hours, they come next to your bed and lean to your ear. A stranger's voice forces you to wake up: Do you remember what you dreamt last night? You lay frozen in fear, staring at the sunlight coming into the room through the heavy curtains. You had too much to dream last night, too much to dream.  I find dreams so intriguing. Why do they reach lengths far beyond our consciousness? What is the reason for this vivid and surreal experience?  Dreams have power. Especially reoccurring childhood nightmares. They speak to you, they scare you and they can make you avoid going to sleep. Dreams reveal secrets you are not aware of. What is hidden in your mind? Like a fairytale mirror, often reflecting the truth, dreams let you catch a glimpse into the unconscious world.  Psychoanalysts are especially fascinated by the unsettling nature of dreams. Sigmund Freud thought that dreams are the ‘royal road to the unconscious’, revealing our deepest desires and fears. According to him, recurring nightmares provide a way of processing anxieties or difficult experiences.  I have created ‘Dreams From The Past’ based on my recurring nightmare about mirrors I used to see in my childhood.

Chroma Culture is a video work that is literally grown. The process for growth combines optical video feedback, digital video processing and projection mapping to create an evolving organic phenomena that recalls the behavior of micro-organisms in a petri dish.   Three discrete chromatic feedback systems (Red, Green, Blue) exist in the same space, fighting for territory. The work is seeded using coloured laser pens, encouraging each chromatic ‘culture’ to grow steadily. As each colour expands, it bumps up against another. This creates a constant flux as individual colour growth is amplified by the feedback system, yet inhibited by the other colours sharing the space.  Winner of the A-Life 2020 Inspired Art Award, at the A-Life artificial Life conference in Montreal, 2020.  This video is a recording of the core work, which can be adapted to a live / interactive installation, dependent on certain presentation conditions.  

Part-Time Moon documents a fantasy of an artificial moon that is created inside the artist’s studio. The film is initiated from glazing over on a filmmaking tool. Compared to the real moon, the part-time moon carries an anthropomorphic character: it moves, changes luminosity and color on its own. The camera chases after this organic moon from far to close. It dances, playing hide-and-seek with the camera. The film takes the apparatus usually behind the camera back to the front of the lens, producing a visual-driven narration which is out of the norm.