1972-12 Participation in numerous solo/group exhibitions, primarily in artist-run and public
galleries; non-traditional spaces and networker-culture; always a variety
of photographic/publishing projects underway! My first one-man exhibition entitled Exposure in 1973 consisted
of ocean-shore-battered and phenyl-blue-dyed etching-papers with plenty of
photographic documentation!
1979-86 The MetaConstruct: Thirteen Interdependent Installations across Canada (a theoretical
demonstration with situationist-overtones, consisting of multiple series
of painted-constructed-irregular-evolving components; housed in
corked-lined, shellacked-plywood boxes; still modified but
rarely exhibited now; stacked in Public Storage lockers) textual
descriptions disseminated electronically; anticipated hypercard stack of
two-thousand photographic details from the installations. One component,
the
Sticks, (eight-foot lengths of whittled then painted pine) were
left in a great bundle outside my Seattle hotel in 1989. One-by-one they
disappeared. I've recreated a few more since. Another component is the Burnt
Numerals; a consumption of ordering systems. Also, the
repainted-paintings (layered varathane w/ stencils): High-Gloss-Quarters
1980-12 Series of self-published ISBN
Bookworks: (full-page bleed photos/weboffset on newsprint/128-1024
pages each/perfect-bound; gradual and extensive accumulation and
sequencing of photographic imagery), still exhibited and distributed
world-wide. Subsequent titles are currently
published electronically on the WWW/Internet; the project is entitled,
The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project: every 12
hours another photographic, hypermodern image is posted from an ongoing
sequence.
1981-89-99-12 Millennium
Project: Illustrations for an Essay (refracted Crystal Palace/collapsed,
hollowed-out and redrawn cartoon imagery; several hundred, various
red-inks on tracing-layout-paper drawings/collages, repeatedly overprinted
with 83 small photo-linocuts in white, waterbase lino-ink; possible
studies for very large frescoes); in-progress.
1989 World Persona (VDT Calligraphic Laserscript) type design to
accompany a comprehensive collection of visages. To be incorporated in the
core.dump project.
1987 Nexus Press Residency/Project, Atlanta, Georgia
(four large offset
posters and mailer; distributed freely) still
available. Animated Suspension; Four Red Duotones in a Discontinuous
Symbolic Order: (1) All is not forgiven, (2) Escape or revenge, (3) Sculpture: The three smallest bones, (4) Douzaine
Suzanne: Guilty in your eyes.
1982-85 Tex-Park, Vernal 646, Ezekiel, Amazing Grace, Aura
(audio-installations: Halifax, Toronto,
Peterborough, Calgary, Buffalo, New York City, et al. Radio
broadcasts.)
1977 Babies, Cakes, Dogs (over the course of a year, personally
retrieved over 200,000 discarded snapshots from a
Toronto photofinishing laboratory) source of
exhibitions, magazine-publications, videos and articles.
1974-76-82-95-09 Video Productions/Installations/Cable Programming/Exhibitions:
Canada, USA, Europe; infrequent; current interest in sub-miniature
video-cameras, desktop-video, independent broadcasts and surveillance (the
7-11 station), slow-scan ham transmissions.
1982 International Detective Training School Diploma. And some
transparencies.
1979-83 celluloid films: Arrival (color,
silent, 55 minutes, 16mm film which features the progressive malfunction
of the camera while echoing the subject matter of Lumiere`s first film);
X00X
(color, silent, 72 minutes, 16mm film consisting of a year`s restructured
documentation of the firing of the noon-day gun in Halifax); various
low-budget screenings: (Bell Auditorium, Argyle House, Halifax,
The Funnel, Toronto,National Film
Board Theatres). Digital miniature
versions of films!
2006-11 Banzai and other digital films (mp4s)
2000-12 bbs: brad brace sound: bbs:
continuous online streamed audio field recordings.
2003-12 Global Islands Project:
ongoing series of multi-media pdf-books -- a pastoral, pictorial and phonic
elicitation of island parameters...
2008-11 Pleated Plaid Pamphlets, Fight History, and other e-publications (pdfs)
2008-12 PROXY Gallery founded/curated online (zencart) storefront-gallery
specializing in social-media self-portraits.