Showing posts with label appropriation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appropriation. Show all posts

NTP's Game of Life



NTP's Game of Life, 2015; Book, 11” x 8 ½ ” x ¼”

Drawing my monogram 31 times and running them through “Conway's Game of Life.” Then turning this into a book. Signature morphed into a petri dish or a simply-plotted map of a virtual world.

Jumping The Shark



Jumping the Shark, 2014; Video, 2'38”

Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins to decline in quality. Signaled by a particular scene, episode, or aspect of a show in which the writers use a ridiculous gimmick in an attempt to keep viewers' interest. It is a sign of desperation. In this movie I am jumping back and forth over Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.