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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK6bPxMiXOE

I am currently installing a money booth/large room in shunt (a performance space under london bridge). I have been watching videos of money booths to see how they engineer their wind. This video is my favorite.

COOL ART

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Taste/Quality + time - inheritance + calamity(dyslexia-respect) = cool art -spirituality

Future of Money Transfer Research (Remittances and People)

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http://www.vimeo.com/1515024

“Foreign aid now looks a little different, aid no longer filters through the fingers of an elite bureaucracy, but goes directly to the needy in the country” (The world who wants it, Nicholson) This isn’t just a future model for America as Nicholson describes in his book…it is already happening in Brittan.

In this video Awa describes how she egularly sends money to her home in Nigeria, and often this money funds special occasions and ceremonies. She herself has also paid for videographers to film these ceremonies in nigeria, and we spent time watching these tapes at her house.

The intricacies of money transfer–the currency of familial obligation and connection. How might money transfer technology better reflect the sender’s intention, as well as the recipient’s use or misuse? What if a video documentation of the sender was as sort of currency itself?

Lawrence of Arabia (first try at 16 mm)

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http://www.vimeo.com/1486228

I directed this reading of Lawrence of Arabia. It was shot on 16mm. At the end you can see the lighting expert George Duck watching as Lawrence confesses his enjoyment.

My Mother and Me and the robot

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This experience totally changed the relationship I have to my mother (and father). As my mother and I exaggerated the technological layer that we use to communicate, we understood a bit more about the nature of human presence mediated by technology.

video playing in gallery

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http://www.vimeo.com/1464426

This video chronicles a years worth of conversations and experiments as I developed a robot to live transatlantically with my mother in America.

Final Show at RCA

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Techolo family final performance

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Somehow I conviced my dad to sing background vocals during the song this is today. My parents are ok. My mom is wearing a robot me of course. My dad said later he thought it was an interesting experience. That he like being enmeshed in this project. It certainly would have worked without him.

Nanotechnolgy

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Read this pdf conversation between myself and Scientist Don Iegler. Iegler has successfully completed seminal experiments in the field of nanotechnology, including one in which he became the first scientist to move and control individual atoms. In that 1989 feat, using a microscope he built himself, Eigler formed the letters I-B-M with 35 individual xenon atoms.

Don and I discuss this graphic design history, nano-bots, and progress.