Video still, “ Flying Spy Potatoes” 2003 Video on DVD, sound and color. Edition 1 of 9.
Aerial view of video captured with a balloon cam during interventions of the artist in Grand Central Station in NYC.
Installation view,” Flying Spy Potatoes; Mission 21st Street, NY” 2005, three video projections on slanted screens on the floor of the gallery. This multimedia time based project created in the context of a full years residency at Moving Image /Video Lab at Eyebeam, and it was presented at Eyebeam Gallery in NYC from January 20 through March 6. The installation consists of three video projections on slanted LCD screens on the floor of the gallery, a table with the log out book, 40 mission folders, a mission map and a red weather balloon (5 ft diameter) with a wi fi video camera which is available to the public to check out of the gallery to play out a mission from the game. The helium balloon is a self-contained wireless mobile unit, light and easy to use which is armed with a wireless cam and a built in transmitter which records and processes visual and audio data which is continuously transmitted to a radio receiver and downloaded and archived on digital video and then projected on the three screens in the gallery.
”Flying Spy Potatoes: Mission 21st Street, NYC” still images taken of agent and super agents during missions with the balloon/cam. Flying Spy Potatoes: Mission: 21st Street, NYC was played on 21 st street, between 10th and 11th Avenue and it has been a great temporary event for the Chelsea neighborhood in the middle of winter. The urban game was a six week public event that transformed 21 st street into a mission game board to explore what happens when play and game is used as a means to intervene and subvert in the real world of street, sidewalks, storefronts and the city.
Video still, “ Flying Spy Potatoes” 2003 Video on DVD, sound and color. Edition 1 of 9. Aerial view of video captured with a balloon cam during interventions of the artist in Grand Central Station in NYC. There are some strange and cool things that go on. But remember this is all illicit, voyeuristic and occasionally illegal.