Projected video loop. Mixed-media / Performance

Umwelt is a playful digital meditation on the idea of home, habitat and the environments we create to make community. Using the aesthetics of zoos, terrariums and ant-farms, Umwelt is a digital display that provides the viewer an intimate glimpse into a virtual environment. The term Umwelt is used to describe a living organism’s specialized or particular perception of its world. Here, this digitally-generated environment is populated by “Osvalden,” virtual organisms who eat, sleep, defecate, dance and die in within the confines of the display . The creatures are experiencing “life” in their own “Umwelt “ as we peer at them from ours. We are reminded of how, within our own Umwelt, behavior is determined by perception.

Video loop, 60 seconds

“Future New York Hotdog Man” is a short animated movie that confronts the anxiety around facing a post-pandemic future by imagining, in meticulous detail, the hygienic challenges of a New York City hot dog vendor.

The pain of a long distance affair.
Music Yann Tierson

This is a dramatic reenactment of a US-Mexico border crossing in 1998 as told to me by a friend.