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Scream
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Machine |
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to
speak with intense expression
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a
device for performing a task |
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a
sudden loud penetrating cry, expressing
anger, terror or pain
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an
instrument that transmits or modifies the
application of power or force |
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make violent protestations |
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a
structure or constructed thing whether material
or immaterial |
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move with a screaming sound |
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an
assemblage of parts that transmit forces,
motion and energy one to another in some predetermined
manner and to some desired end |
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produce a vivid startling effect |
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a
person or organization that acts like or resembles
a machine |
Gearoid
Dolan is an Irish artist, living and working in
the US since 1987 when they started branding their work “screaMachine”.
ScreaMachine is realized in
the form of installations, performances, audio
and video works, films, digital media art and
more. These works are by nature experimental, pushing
the boundaries of new media, experiential and
time based art. They are works that are flexible
and that can have many incarnations.
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Narrative
With a background playing in punk bands, Dolan turned to performance art with a political edge at a very early age, performing on stages at Dublin punk events, accompanied by audio recordings and slide projections, 1981 - 1983. In 1985 they were shown in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. Dolan developed a style of performance featuring audio/video/film/animation and props accompanying the performer and in 1987 performed in Dublin’s Temple Bar Gallery with all these elements. They moved to New York later that year and started branding their works with the name “screaMachine”, beginning with a performance series shown at ABC No Rio, 1987/1988 with multiple film projections, animations and audio accompanying. Since then they have been performing in the underground performance scene in New York, dipping in and out of the Art World, doing street interventions and developing new media techniques. In 1989 Franklin Furnace featured their “Survival... Against All Odds” series. In 1990 at MoMA PS1 Dolan presented a month long installation and performance series. In 1992 they got to return home and show in Dublin’s Trinity College. Through the 90’s Dolan further developed the A/V components, moving into digital media and video projection. For 10 years they presented new works in their storefront studio in Manhattan, presented multi screen animated video installations in nightclubs and underground spaces and developed video works for web streaming in its infancy and was an early pioneer of the medium. In 1996 they launched their website www.screaMachine.com. In 1999 they presented their first “Drive-By” video performance at the newly formed DUMBO Arts Festival, the start of a 13 year run presenting new works at this festival. In 2000, Dolan had their first solo gallery show, at the Moving Image Gallery in Soho, NYC. Since 2000 Dolan has received the New York State Council on the Arts award for Film, Video and New Technologies five times, funding large scale performances and the development of new technologies.
They started working with protest movements in 2003, with the Iraq War protests, shooting and producing semi-animated films for installation/performance/interventions titled “Protest”, which continue today. They have also shown at The Kitchen (NYC), Westbourne Studios (London), Western Front (Vancouver), Tulca Arts Festival (Galway), FILE (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Darklight Festival (Dublin), Inport (Estonia), TED-X NYC and many more venues and festivals around the world.
In 2010 Dolan introduced their latest outdoor street intervention interactive video projection device, presenting the piece “Target Assault” at locations around New York City. Following along with the Occupy Wall St movement, 2011/2012, Dolan documented the protests and interactions with police and created a series titled “Protest/The 99%”, presenting them in video installations, including at The Storefront for Art and Architecture, and on the streets of New York in Drive-By projection performances. Similarly with the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014 -2016 culminating with an 18 building projection series for the Art in Odd Places Festival 2016. 2016 forward saw versions of “Protest” following the reaction to the election of Donald Trump, documenting that protest movement and projecting them on city buildings in performative street interventions. In 2017, Dolan produced a series of large scale multi-channel video street intervention performances at 21 locations around NYC and produced a 10 channel video installation and multimedia performance at Superchief Gallery NYC in 2018. In 2018 “Protest” incorporated the March for Our Lives protests and in 2019 the Climate Strike movement. Then in 2020/2021 on the continued Black Lives Matter protests regular projections on buildings in Union Square NYC and around the City.
Recent projects include the award-winning documentary "The Biggest Obstacle" (2021), distributed internationally, and "From Panoctagon to Festival Henge", a large-scale community participation installation and performance presented at MIT's Artfinity Art Festival 2025 and expanded into an eight-week exhibition at the MIT Media Lab. They developed a set of hand-made LED arrays that premiered in "Festival Henge" and since have joined in the range of tools presenting video content to the public in street interventions, including the 2026 "Community Is..." project at locations around the city and at MIT's "Future Fest" and new versions of the protest series based on documentation of the Boston area No Kings protests of 2025 and 2026, also at various locations around the Boston area, titled "Protest: No Kings".
Dolan taught digital media courses at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York from 2000 to 2017, Hunter College NYC 2019 - 2022 and, since 2021, is Media Instructor in the Program in Art, Culture & Technology at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dolan continues to do body performances accompanied by sometimes simple and sometimes complex A/V components; to do street interventions with physical performances and with projections and LED arrays; and to seek new ways of interacting with the public outside of the Art World
Dolan has another art project, "Gerhardt DeKunst: I Am Art", a "public projection of self" manifesting mostly on social media, in nightclubs, festivals and parades since 2008. |
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Dolan a.k.a. screaMachine |
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Visiting
Artist |
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| 2026 |
research advisor |
Open Style Labs - AI Research Residency |
London, UK |
| 2025 |
seminar author/host |
Disabled Artists in Conversation MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
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visiting
artist |
MIT School of Architecture |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2023 |
visiting
artist |
MIT School of Architecture |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2022 |
guest
artist |
MIT Art Culture & Technology Program |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2015 |
visiting
artist |
Arts Letters & Numbers |
Albany, NY |
| 2013 |
visiting
artist |
Arts Letters & Numbers |
Albany, NY |
| 2011 |
visiting
artist |
Cooper
Union School of Architecture |
New
York, NY |
| 2007 |
guest
artist |
Cooper
Union School of Art |
New
York, NY |
| 2005 |
visiting
artist |
The
Burren School of Art graduate program |
Galway,
Ireland |
| 2004 |
guest
artist/panelist in "Spinet" |
Cooper
Union |
New
York, NY |
| 2003 |
guest
artist |
Western
Front performance center |
Vancouver,
Canada |
| 2002 |
featured
digital media artist |
Rhizome
website |
rhizome.org |
| ongoing
since 2001 |
featured
digital media artist in video installation
rooms |
Remote |
New
York, NY |
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2000 |
featured
digital media artist |
Moving
Image Gallery website |
movingimagegallery.com |
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1999 |
guest
panelist |
Franklin
Furnace’s bi-weekly webcast |
pseudo.com |
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1999 |
resident
multimedia installation artist |
Ossam nightclub |
New
York, NY |
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1997-98 |
resident
video artist |
BLT
Radio’s weekly live ‘Headset’
webcast |
bltradio.com |
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1995-97 |
resident
multimedia installation artist |
Jungle
Nation nightclub |
New
York, NY |
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1990 |
guest
lecturer |
Art
Center School of Art post-grad program |
Pasadena, CA |
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Awards + |
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| 2025 |
Artfinity Grant |
Arts at MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2024 |
Infinite Mile Award |
MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2024 |
RISE Award |
MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2021 |
New York City Artists Corps Award |
New
York City |
New
York, NY |
| 2021 |
documentary feature film selected |
NYC Independent Film Festival |
New
York, NY |
| 2021 |
documentary short film selected |
NYC Independent Film Festival |
New
York, NY |
| 2021 |
documentary feature film selected |
Manhattan Film Festival |
New
York, NY |
| 2021 |
documentary short film selected |
Manhattan Film Festival |
New
York, NY |
| 2021 |
winner Award of Merit: Documentary Feature |
IndieFest Film Awards |
La Jolla, CA |
| 2021 |
winner Award of Merit: Social Justice |
IndieFest Film Awards |
La Jolla, CA |
| 2020 |
documentary short film selected |
Doc NYC Film Festival |
New
York, NY |
| 2017 |
Participatory Safety Inc Award for interactive public art |
New
York City |
New
York, NY |
| 2016 |
NYSCA Film/Video and New Technologies
Award |
NYSCA |
New
York State |
| 2011 |
NYSCA Film/Video and New Technologies
Award |
NYSCA |
New
York State |
| 2008 |
NYSCA Film/Video and New Technologies
Award |
New
York City |
New
York, NY |
| 2006 |
C.A.S.E.
Arts grant |
New
York City |
New
York, NY |
| 2005 |
NYSCA Film/Video and New Technologies
Award |
NYSCA |
New
York State |
| 2004 |
Experimental
TV Center Presentation grant |
New
York City |
New
York, NY |
| 2004 |
Media
the Foundation Technical Assistance grant |
New
York City |
New
York, NY |
| 2003 |
New
York Foundation on the Arts performance grant |
New
York City |
New
York, NY |
| 2002 |
NYSCA Film/Video and New Technologies
Award |
NYSCA |
New
York State |
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1998 |
screaMachine.com |
website
launched |
screaMachine.com |
| 1995 - current |
G-man |
DJ
persona & recording artist |
screaMachine.com |
| 1993 |
NYSCA video post-production award |
residency
at Adaptors Inc. |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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1991-2001 |
screaMachine
studio |
window
exhibition space |
75
E.3rd St. NYC |
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2000-2017 |
Director
& Faculty |
School of Art, Cooper Union |
New York, NY |
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1996-2000 |
Computer
Studies teacher &Technology Coordinator |
Stevens
Cooperative School |
Hoboken,
NJ |
| Works,
documentation,
slides and online files available at: |
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| RESIST, screaMachine 2025, published by MIT PPPPress |
| Emergency Index 10 by Gluzman ISBN978-1-946604-10-1 |
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Emergency Index 9 by Gluzman, Cleary, Gaydos ISBN1958664245 |
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Emergency Index 7 by Gluzman, Cleary, Gaydos
ISBN1946433217 |
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Emergency Index 6 by Gluzman, Cleary, Gaydos
ISBN 2376-4287 |
| Performance Art in Ireland By Aine Phillips ISBN9781783204281 |
| Franklin
Furnace Archive (NY): www.franklinfurnace.org |
| Post
Media Network (NY): www.michelethursz.com |
| Rhizome
(NY): www.rhizome.org |
| Art
House (IRL): www.arthouse.ie |
| Retiform
(NY):
http://retiform.ath.cx |
| DUMBO Art Center (NY): http://www.dumboartscenter.org |
| Irish
Arts Review: http://www.irishartsreview.com |
| Herb
Lubalin Study Center,
Cooper Union: http://www.cooper.edu/art/lubalin |
| Circa
arts magazine: http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2006/tulca/t.shtml |
| Body Type 2: bodytypebook.com |
| Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art: stuckuppieceofcrap.com |
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| 2026 |
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Community Is... |
Future Fest MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2026 |
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Community Is... |
Boston area series |
Boston/Cambridge, MA |
| 2026 |
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Protest: No Kings |
Boston area series |
Boston/Cambridge, MA |
| 2025 |
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RESIST (Book) |
published by PPPPress MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2025 |
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Festival Henge |
Media Lab MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2025 |
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Beauty is a Blast |
Art Cake |
Brooklyn, NY |
| 2025 |
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From Panoctagon to Festival Henge |
Artfinity Festival MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2024 |
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Protest |
Dissolve Festival MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2023 |
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The Biggest Obstacle |
Bartos Theatre MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2023 |
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HammerDrop @ "May Day Collection" |
ACT Gallery, MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2023 |
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The Biggest Obstacle |
Bartos Theatre MIT 6/7/23 |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2022 |
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Endless @ "UnWar" |
ACT Gallery, MIT |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2022 |
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My Body My Choice |
group show |
Cambridge, MA |
| 2021 |
• |
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The Biggest Obstacle |
Rise & Resist |
New
York City |
| 2021 |
• |
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The Biggest Obstacle |
NYPL Heiskell Library |
New
York City |
| 2021 |
• |
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The Biggest Obstacle |
El Bario PS109 Art Space |
New
York City |
| 2021 |
• |
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Protest Queer Libertation March |
Manhattan Film Festival |
New
York City |
| 2021 |
• |
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The Biggest Obstacle |
Manhattan Film Festival |
New
York City |
| 2021 |
• |
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Protest Queer Libertation March |
NYC Independent Film Festival |
New
York City |
| 2021 |
• |
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The Biggest Obstacle |
NYC Independent Film Festival |
New
York City |
| 2021 |
• |
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Protest Queer Liberation March |
City Artists Corps |
New
York City |
| 2020 |
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Protest QLM ReEmbodied |
Integrated Channels |
New
York City |
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Protest ReEmbodied |
Figment Arts Festival |
New
York City |
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• |
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Protest BLM series |
Union Square |
New
York City |
| 2019 |
• |
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Protest Climate Strike |
Con Ed Power Plant |
New
York City |
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Protest OWS S17 |
Zuccotti Park |
New
York City |
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Protest Immigrant Rights |
Grace Exhibition Space |
New
York City |
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Protest March For Our Lives |
Experimental Intermedia |
New
York City |
| 2018 |
• |
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Protest Installation & performance |
Superchief Gallery |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| 2017 |
• |
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Protest NYSCA performances |
21 locations on the streets |
New
York City |
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Taking It To The Streets |
M.O.R.U.S. |
New
York City |
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• |
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Protest |
Union Square |
New
York City |
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• |
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Resist |
The Front |
New
York City |
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Unnatural Election |
Kimmel Galleries |
New
York City |
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Protest |
Theatre for the New City |
New
York City |
| 2016 |
• |
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Protest/Dangerous |
41 Cooper Gallery |
New
York City |
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• |
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Protest/Dangerous |
Union Square |
New
York City |
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Dangerous |
Union Square |
New
York City |
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• |
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Vote |
The Front |
New
York City |
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• |
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Protest |
Art in Odd Places |
New
York City |
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• |
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Broken |
The Front |
New
York City |
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• |
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Protest |
Chelsea Hotel Loves Art |
New
York City |
| 2015 |
• |
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Psoup Kitchen |
The Front |
New
York City |
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• |
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Define Me |
The Front |
New
York City |
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• |
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Wall St Bomb Bubble Crash Wish |
Arts Letters & Numbers |
Albany,
NY |
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K-Train |
Burning Man Festival |
BRC, NA |
| 2014 |
• |
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Psoup Kitchen |
Figment Arts Festival |
Governor's Island,
NYC |
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K-Train |
Burning Man Festival |
BRC, NA |
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K-Train |
FreaKKshow |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| 2013 |
• |
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Sandy @ C |
The Front |
New
York City |
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Facilitating Strategic Disruption |
Bowery Poetry Club |
New
York City |
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Wall St Bomb Bubble Crash Wish |
YANS & RETO Festival |
New
York City |
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• |
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The 99% - S-17 2 |
Tompkins Square Park |
New
York City |
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• |
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The 99% - a Drive-By performance |
NYC Financial District |
New
York City |
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• |
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The GOP Inside of Me |
Arts Letters & Numbers |
Albany,
NY |
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The 99% |
From Obama to Occupy @ BAX |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| 2012 |
• |
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Target
Assault |
TED X @ Cooper Union |
New
York City |
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The GOP Inside of Me |
YANS & RETO Festival |
New
York City |
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FreaKKshow |
FreaKKshow |
New
York City |
| 2011 |
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Strategies for Public Occupation |
Storefront for Art and Architecture |
New
York City |
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• |
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Pre-Occupation |
Occupy Wall St event |
New
York City |
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D-Void |
Burning Man Festival |
BRC, NA |
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FreaKKshow |
FreaKKshow |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| 2010 |
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Target
Assault |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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Target
Assault |
FreaKKshow |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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• |
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Target
Assault |
Cooper
Union |
New
York City |
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This is Not a Bicycle |
Cooper
Union |
New
York City |
| 2009 |
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R/Evolution |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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R/Evolution |
Burning Man Festival |
BRC, NA |
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Torture |
Cooper
Union |
New
York City |
| 2008 |
• |
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Torture |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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Drag |
D.A.C.
Gallery |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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screaMachine
performances |
Live@8 |
Galway,
IRL |
| 2007 |
• |
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Aggression |
Cooper
Union |
New
York City |
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Target
Assault |
Inport
Performance Fest |
Tallinn,
Estonia |
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• |
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Target
Assault |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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• |
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Define
Me |
D.A.C.
Gallery |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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Fightback
series |
NYC
Streets |
New
York City |
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Protest |
MOMA/
Times Square/ NYC Streets |
New
York City |
| 2006 |
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WTF? |
NYC
Streets |
New
York City |
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• |
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Passage |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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• |
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Separate |
NYSCA
performance series |
New
York City |
| 2005 |
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Gotta
Keep It Up |
Inport
Performance Fest |
Tallinn,
Estonia |
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• |
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Separate |
Tulca
Arts Festival |
Galway,
IRL |
| |
• |
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Separate |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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Urban
Landscapes |
Howl
Festival |
New
York, NY |
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Separate |
Howl
Festival |
New
York, NY |
| |
• |
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Separate |
ISCP |
New
York, NY |
| 2004 |
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Urban
Visionaries |
Cooper
Union |
New
York, NY |
| |
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Protest |
Tompkins
Square Park |
New
York, NY |
| |
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Protest |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| |
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Art
Against War |
Majilis
Cultural Center |
Mumbai,
India |
| 2003 |
• |
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xeShow |
Collective Unconscious |
New York, NY |
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• |
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WARAID |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| |
• |
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Urban Landscapes |
Coney Island Museum |
Brooklyn,
New York |
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F.I.L.E.
Hipersonica |
Hyper Audio Fest |
Sao
Paulo, Brazil |
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• |
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F.I.L.E. Electronic Language Fest. |
Paço
das Artes |
Sao
Paulo, Brazil |
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Protest/Entertainment |
New
Forms Festival |
Vancouver, Canada |
| |
• |
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Drive-By
performances |
NYSCA
performance series |
New
York City |
| |
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Manipulated
Identities |
Selfware
digital video fest |
Graz,
Austria |
| |
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Protest/Entertainment |
X-fest
@ Remote |
New
York, NY |
| |
• |
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Protest/Entertainment |
Houton
Gallery |
New
York, NY |
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Art
Against War |
Elizabeth
Stone Harper Gallery |
Clinton South Carolina |
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Art
Against War |
NY
Art Space & Macy Gallery |
New
York, NY |
| 2002 |
• |
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Without |
DUMBO
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| |
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Performance
Art Today |
MAS
Gallery |
Odzaci,
Yugoslavia |
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Prix
Ars Electronica 2002 |
Cyberarts
2002 |
Linz,
Austria |
| |
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Vacationland |
Westbourne
Studios |
London,
England |
| 2001 |
• |
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Nothing
& More |
Icon
@ Remote |
New
York, NY |
| |
• |
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Drive
By |
Brooklyn
Front Gallery |
Brooklyn,
NY |
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Vacationland |
Arthouse |
Dublin,
IRL |
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1.44
Megs |
Rhizome |
New
York, NY |
| 2000 |
• |
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screaMachine |
Moving
Image Gallery |
New
York, NY |
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Abode
w/Loftus |
Arthouse |
Dublin,
IRL |
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ARTimation |
Makor
Gallery |
New
York, NY |
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Future
Shadows |
Darklight
Film Festival |
Dublin,
IRL |
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tech
know-LOGIC |
Moving
Image Gallery |
New
York, NY |
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Eject
III |
RCA |
Limerick,
IRL |
| |
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Digital
Happy Hour |
The
Kitchen |
New
York, NY |
| |
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Without
You |
ABC
No Rio |
New
York, NY |
| 1999 |
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Anatomy
I |
PS122
Gallery |
New
York, NY |
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• |
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Drive-by |
D.U.M.B.O.
Arts Center |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| |
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Float |
Smack
Mellon Studios |
Brooklyn,
NY |
| 1997 |
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New
American Art Show |
Tweed
Gallery |
New
York, NY |
| 1996 |
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Progressive
Propaganda |
Art
in General |
New
York, NY |
| 1993 |
• |
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Without
(installation) |
10
on 8 |
New
York, NY |
| |
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Political
Cabaret |
Tribecca
Lab |
New
York, NY |
| |
|
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Without
(screening) |
P.S.
122 |
New
York, NY |
| 1992 |
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False
Democracy |
10
on 8 |
New
York, NY |
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Politics |
Trinity
College |
Dublin,
IRL |
| 1990 |
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Aggression |
Art
Center |
Pasadena,
CA |
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Urban
Landscape |
P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center |
L.I.C.,
NY |
| 1989 |
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Politics |
R.A.P.P.
Arts Center |
New
York, NY |
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Survival
Against All Odds |
Franklin
Furnace |
New
York, NY |
| 1988 |
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Cross
to Bear |
The
New Theater |
New
York, NY |
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Politics |
ABC
No Rio |
New
York, NY |
| 1987 |
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Perversion... |
ABC
No Rio |
New
York, NY |
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Cross
to Bear |
ABC
No Rio |
New
York, NY |
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Aggression |
ABC
No Rio |
New
York, NY |
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Cross
to Bear |
Temple
Bar Gallery |
Dublin,
IRL |
| 1986 |
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Deep
in the Woods |
Stepaside |
Dublin,
IRL |
| 1985 |
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Factory |
Irish
Exhibition of Living Art |
Dublin,
IRL |
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= solo show |
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