Re-Inventions

These works trace paths of invention, exploring innovation and the "global commons." Tracing the citations in patent applications enables me to unearth some of the patterns of technological innovation and how they intersect with economics and evolution. Most inventions are re-inventions; they spin from developments in prior innovations. What is it like to inhabit our inventions? My works portray unintended consequences of technology and include (re) drafted plans of some of the patented inventions that cause them (e.g., steam engines leading to cumulative carbon dioxide emissions). Some of the patents propose remedies resulting from yet other (patented) technologies (e.g., protection from nuclear radiation).

The view of earth from space as depicted at times suggests patterns of migration and instability. Many of the animations explore the detrimental effects of unbridled capitalism, asking "who owns space?" While the images form portraits of technological innovation, the associated AR (augmented reality) portrays what is unseen in patent applications, namely personal reflection and political and environmental questioning that contrast with the factual market-oriented data.

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	Ruby Red Falls 1	Ruby Red Falls 2	Installation Marina Gisich Gallelry St. Petersburg, Russia	Detail ExtrActivism WUK, Vienna, Austria

	Gimme Shelter 1: Migrations	Gimme Shelter 2: Migrations	Orientor 1	Orientor 2	Messenger	Messenger 1

	Speak to Me 1	Speak to Me 2	Untitled (NASA)	Crying Astronaut	Transmission	VAB

	Post-Earth Engineering	Workforce in Space	Cadmium and Cobalt 2	Extraction

	Safe in Space	Cry in Space: Docking	Mining_ A Brief History	Conversations at a Nuclear Plant

	Colonization of Space	Portrait as an Astronaut	Habitat	2020 Vision	Workforce