Gameplay as Community

Bread (779 Birthdates)

Bread is a network-theory / network-analysis based community project.  The project involves a work titled 779 Birthdates, which is 779 plastic bread tabs on canvas.  The project was initiated in 2003.  It takes a really long time to collect 779 bread tabs.  If sold, all monies received will be donated to the Millennium Villages project (headed by Jeffrey Sachs at the Earth Institute), which is working to support sustainable agriculture in African villages.

Initial Dynamics

Initial Dynamics is a compositional party game that uses a crowd of people as its instrument.

iTalkLikeArtCriticsThink

iTalkLikeArtCriticsThink is an experiment in gift-economy and art criticism.  It's a booklet of artwork and self-critique plus a cassette that is distributed via shop-placing, plant-pocketing, and other public gifting techniques.

NoPurchaseIsTheNecessary

NoPurchaseIsTheNecessary is an experiment in tinkering with a found-material's exchange-value.  It's a public art project that addresses environmental questions via economic experiments.

Picky Sticky Pollen

Picky Sticky Pollen is a reality-based adaptation of Phoenix Perry's interactive Honey.  A hive of bees populate a colorful pollen-filled lawn, as teams take turns shouting commands in an attempt to manipulate their behavior.  Part spectator-sport, part New York Stock Exchange at closing time, this fast-paced theatrical game introduces a new set of bee-personalities at every round.  Which characters will you get?

ScrapCycle

ScrapCycle is an ongoing project devoted to the creative reuse of refuse, and requires a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission.  Materials are used for on-site installations, directed toward local upcycling artists, or repurposed as holiday gift wrap.  These action-based economic and environmental aspects of ScrapCycle refer to the act of reuse as requiring us to approach everyday decisions from a use-value perspective, which is in opposition to our collective exchange-value upbringing.  ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective.