KurtisArtistTalk
From AlmostPerfect
Working on paintings atm and here
Art practice
digital media
very corporately orientated
outside art practice
taking something very commercial like oil or industry and finding a way to explore it
interactive documentary
my research looks at physical environment and social knowledge and space and place
Ghosts of Industry
Alberta Oil Sands
birth place of the oil sands industry
oil bores me
but the place is remarkable
site was abandoned overnight
the walls and floor have buckled
dalis industrial nightmare
worked with wayne dunckley
passing through space and time
information is in these artefacts that are embeded in the site
newspaper articles
old and new
you can get aquainted with the site
the guy who started it was an amateur film maker
lots of old footahe of the place
oil seeping out of the ground
shows old technologies that were there
themes get more abstract and humanised
bitumount
designed for junior high and high school students
50 boxes of information in the archive
the bricks were the only evidence of what we could find out about what it was like to be there
no primary interviews
had access to researchers
diztorted floors
bios of the people that were there
the town was 15 people - just enough to run the facility
the facility was a test bed - proof of concept for oil sand industry - when the test finished the facility closed
Other Projects
digital development
- watching warner
levels of surveillance in the internet and digital media
trying to make invisible the role of the audience
warner was a guy who is being watched by his company and his step mother
a hacker is publishing this data
exposes espionage and draws the audience in
- war hospital
interactive film board
war hospital in kenya that services the sudanese civil war
companion to a film of the same name
creating empathies and feeding the stories out so people could experience them one on one
personal audio missives
adding context of africa - sudan - war
rupture the sense of the other - drawing the audience in to the fact that personal relationships are severed
personal engagement
want to work on this here a bit.
looking on development issues and
line up at starbucks - you get an sms - a doctor in rwanda messages you with news of a still born delivery - no judgement on your life but shows the huge gap between your experiences..
everyones experience is valid but turing peoples day to day lives on there heads
+ micro donations etc..
