Month: November 2014

  • Factory Sounds

      Audio listend to by the participants using headphones while doing their task on the assembly line. Credit.

  • Project 3: Nugget Gallery

    My concept is to have visitors the gallery butcher chickens, grind meat, shape the ground meat into nuggets, bread and batter them, par-fry them and then vacuum seal them so the visitor can take them home.   [break] [break] Through this project I hope to address and accomplish the following: [break] Involve and expose viewers…

  • Looking into Chicken McNuggets…

    I’m considering how best to portray performance in food as a gallery installation piece. I think the subject must be quite striking and also accessible to anyone.  We have all heard myths about how McNuggets are made but I think participating in making them would be a very different experience.  I’m considering building an installation…

  • Andy Warhol Eating a Whopper

    “My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating uh, a hamburger.” [break] [break] and on a related note…. [break]

  • Cowabunga Pizzaiolo: An introduction to design through pizza

    On Sunday, Dan Somen and I taught local high school students attending Stanford Splash about design through making pizza.  We taught students about how to approach making pizza from deciding how thick to make the crust to deciding what combination of toppings to add.  Our goal was to get them to consider how the various…

  • Project 2: Performance Tools

    As I set out to put together various items to act as my mise-en-place, I realized the task was a bit more involved than just foraging for materials.  It’s actually quite difficult to search for materials to create art piece with, without an idea for what that piece will be.  With food, gathering ingredients is…

  • 3rd Place at Pizzafest

    Some buddies and I competed in the first annual Berkeley Pizza Fest on Saturday as Team Doughmance and took home 3rd Place!   Our pies included:   Delicata Squash, Tomato Sauce, Red Onions, Mozzarella, Asiago, Sage Mashed Potato, Spicy Copa, Asiago, Chili Oil (and sometimes Ground Cherries) Standard Margarita: Tomato Sauce, Fresh Mozz and a…

  • Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life

    Fluxus is a project organized by George Maciunas exploring and redefining the meaning of art in society.  A group of artists created a series of kits that are especially interesting to me.   What is art good for? This was a central question for Fluxus organizer George Maciunas, who devoted his life to analyzing the…