Illuminated Corridor.

Friday, May 13, 2011.
An evening of live music and video performances with the Illuminated Corridor.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
Installation of //Bii: Water with live video component.

 

V.I.P. Event.

V.I.P. Event.

Friday, May 6, 2011.
Outside of University Art Gallery. California State University Stanislaus. Turlock, CA.
Premiere screening of //Bii: Contentment.

Working with unlikely natural and built spaces, Video In Place (V.I.P.) events are a public art project that creates site-specific illumination of public space, showcasing diverse videography aesthetics. V.I.P. events are a powerful, yet non-displacing, way to creatively claim and transform public spaces with inventive, provocative, and immersive events of light and sound.

President’s Gallery

Coming Soon! A new Science Museum.

A traditional installation at the President’s Gallery

Coming Soon! A new Science Museum.May – July, 2011.
President’s Gallery.
California State University Stanislaus. Turlock, CA.

A traditional gallery installation of the printed works from the //Building Imagination Initiative, including a special installation of the satirized comics strips form the //Bii: Play Alternate Reality Game, images from the Coming Soon! project, and video stills from several performances.

Art, ARGs, and Social Activism

Art, ARGs, and Social Activism

zero1-playWednesday, April 6, 2011.
Artist Lecture. B205.  California State University Stanislaus. Turlock, CA.
Art, ARGs, and Social Activism: Digital games are widely used and played to address pressing social issues, producing sustainable and positive impacts within our society. In the //Building Imagination Initiative’s Alternate Reality Game, each participant chooses a Mission to participate in. Missions revolve around creating imaginative art based solutions to Modesto’s livability issues: Education, Employment, Crime, Health Care, Housing, Transportation, Leisure, Arts & Culture, Quality of Life.

Deep Root Dance Collective: R.A.W. at The Garage

February 18 – 19th, 2011.
Deep Root Dance Collective at The Garage.
San Francisco. CA.

Deep Root Dance Collective invites you to Force Intent, an evening of collective works by Jeanne Disney, Bonner Odell, lola a. katie, and Nicole Zvarik. Explore our social landscape and its societal impacts with mermaids, terrorists, anchormen and vaginae. Live and interactive video performance of //Bii: Water

Double Vision. “Recursive Things”

Friday, March 11, 2011.
Recursive Things, DOUBLE VISION.
Julian Scott Memorial Gallery.
Montpelier, Vermont.
Installation of //Bii: Watch (water).

In Montpelier, they’ll transform the performance space into a maze through which audience members can travel and interact with the dancers, hanging placards — with phrases such as “Rewind,” “Fast-forward” or “Pause” — around the performers’ necks that instruct them how to move. Clute and Vermont artist and interactive-exhibit designer Sherlock Terry will create live sound; California-based artist Jessica Gomula will provide a video element. Full Article.

Modesto International Architecture Festival.

Friday, September 18th, 2010.
Modesto International Architecture Festival.
Film Screening, State Theatre. Modesto, CA.
Screening of //Bii: Wealth.

BUILDING IMAGINATION: WEALTH

Executive Directors: Jessica Gomula + Christian Hali.
Collaborating Artistic Producers: Brittney Miller, Julie Strong, Alyssa Martinez.

A video response to Modesto’s repeated ranking as the most unlivable city of its size in the country. Modesto’s problems are many and deep rooted. Yet this ranking is in contrast to its reputation in the mid-20th century as a progressive community known for cutting edge architecture and urban design, and as one of the fastest growing cities in the country.

Structured around the city’s official slogan “Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health” this four part video series explores the city’s livability issues primarily through its architecture and urban design in an expressive and experimental “art house” manner.

The Wealth, second in the video series, examines the economic well-being of Modesto through its residential architecture. Poetically juxtaposing highlights and architectural gems of Modesto with residential embodiments of the city’s issues of livability, such as the high rates of home foreclosure, infrastructure inequalities, poverty, crime, cost of living, and low rates of income.