Book Report
2017
Video
Book Report combines short sequences of Mad Men's Don Draper reading books, relevant facts about the 2016 presidential campaign, a history of the hashtag #trumpbookreport, notes on a payment to the mysteriously named “Draper Sterling” ad agency—and a choral voice-over that reinterprets the infamous Access Hollywood transcript.
Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome
2017
Video
Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome is an expanded film project with photographs, video and stories that was created with teenagers aging out of Kazakhstan’s Akkol Bolshoi orphanage into challenging and uncertain futures.
The Exquisite Corpse of Anonymous
2016
Collaboration
In collaboration with artists Laurie Wigham and Vanessa Marsh, a project for The Exquisite Corpse of the Unknown Veteran
Protocol
2015
Media Installation
Not six inches from her studio window Jeanne Finley watched and recorded a pair of Hummingbirds as they built their nest in an exquisite rouge bougainvillea.
Fat Chance: the Film
2014
Video
Two fathers and three boys were celebrating high school graduation by sailing from San Francisco to Portland in their boat, Fat Chance. Thirty-five miles off the coast of Point Reyes, they were hit by a rogue wave.
Temporary Structure
2014
Video
Temporary Structure consists of three works that document and archive the construction of memorial sites.
Imperfect City / Imperfect State
2013
Media Installation
Imperfect City / Imperfect State is a media installation and web-based social practice project that archives vernacular roadside memorials in the state of Delaware.
Falsework
2013
Video
Falsework explores the visual disparity between the cemetery’s fragile, illusive graves, and the massive structure that protects them to examine the dynamic relationship between humans, their pets, and this site.
Fat Chance: the Work-in-Progress Installation
2013
Video
In 2006, Mel Day and Jeanne C. Finley were artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts when they both filmed a sailboat named Fat Chance that had grounded on Rodeo Beach.
Three Works: Carmen Papalia in Collaboration with John Muse
2013
Media Installation
Muse provided three brief descriptions of artworks to Carmen Papalia, who used them to create an artwork of his own.
And the Winner Is Nick Kahn
2012
Collaboration
And the Winner is Nick Kahn, an exhibition co-curated with Matthew Callinan, investigated competition, cooperation, and community through a series of artist residencies, curricular interventions, and a massive skee-ball tournament involving all members of the Haverford community: students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Threshold
2012
Video
Threshold brings together voices of members of the Threshold Choir—an a cappella group trained to sing at bedside in hospice and palliative care—with voices from residents at Palo Alto’s Lytton Gardens senior community.
The Ardmore Cairn
2012
Collaboration
Since the fall of 2011, Wynnewood PA resident Ed Basner and a
few others have built and tended a small cairn at the corner of Ardmore
and Lancaster Avenues in Ardmore, PA.
Manhole 452: the Film
2011
Video
This film follows the reflections of a middle-aged man whose car was hit by an exploding manhole. He now rides the Geary Limited bus the length of Geary Street to his job fitting prosthetic limbs.
Field Guide: Markus Baenziger, curated by John Muse
2011
Curatorial Project
Using plastic resins, found objects, and various casting and carving
techniques, artist Markus Baenziger invents floridly beautiful flora
that often merge with or emerge from technological debris. Field Guide,
Baenziger's first exhibition at Haverford College, maps his ecologies
of cultured waste and natural hybridity, inviting viewers to reconsider
the troubles and wonders of our contemporary landscape.
Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under Satellites
2010
Media Installation
Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under
Satellites explores different ways of keeping time and moving
through space by presenting the wanderings of legendary historical
figures from Ridgefield, Sarah Bishop and the Leatherman. The paths of
these figures are traced by the artists through the use of
multi-channel video projection, sculptural elements, and geocaching, an
online, GPS-driven treasure hunt.
Flat Land
2009
Media Installation
Flat Land explores the visual
culture of men and women at war by looking at publicly available images
of "Flat Daddies" (two-dimensional life-size cut-outs of soldiers that
are carried through daily activities by families and friends back
home), and "Flat Stanleys" (small two-dimensional cut-outs of a cartoon
boy, sent by American school children on adventures around the world,
sometimes even to war-zones).
Imaginative Feats Literally Presented: Three Fables for Projection
2009
Video
an exploration of America’s many contemporary
wars
The Napoleon Room
2008
Site-Specific Media Installation
2 DVD players, 2 video projectors, 2 channel audio
Cover art for Judith Butler's Undoing Gender
2003
Works on Paper
Cover Art for Judith Butler's Undoing Gender
Xerox PARC Residency and Collaboration
1997
Collaboration
Xerox Palo [Alto Research Center] Artist in Residence Program