Senior Reading Seminar in New Media
At the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California Santa Cruz. visit: [the course website]
Social Information Spaces – of the classroom, emergencies, the urban garden
In the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California Santa Cruz. visit: [the course website]
Hayes Valley Farm at Berkeley Art Museum for OPEN Restaurant
Hayes Valley Farm, 2010-2013.. OPENeducation at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. Samples of signs, comics, seed packets, labels… contextualized information systems.
Hayes Valley Farm at BAN6
Hayes Valley Farm, 2010-2013. BAN6, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 2011. Print diagrams, print comics, graffiti on plywood, seeds, plant material.
Weeds can help us belong to a place
A version of this was published in the CSPA Quarterly, 2010: It’s almost a compulsion I have to seek out identifiable plants that grow around me as I walk, whether it be in the woods or in thecity. In San Francsico, I’ve been roaming my neighborhood suprised to see a surplus of medicinal herbs growing […]
The Birds the Bees the Flowers and the Seeds
the birds the bees the flowers and the seeds is a narrative exploration of the relationship between desire, violence, and the uncanny, set in an installation space that is presented as a future garden. In this piece, a series of spoken fictional “scores” pipe through speakers that double as flower pots. Each of the scores […]
Analogous
the birds the bees the flowers and the seeds is an exploration of the relationship between desire and violence, the strictly cultivated west and the strategies war has for it’s own evolution. in this work, poppy pods look like grenades, bullets look like seeds, an ammo case a planter, wire cutters resemble garden snips. the […]
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An interactive theater and game that uses narrative prompts and science fiction apocalypse to elicit ephemeral moments of intimacy…. Your browser does not support the video tag. Your browser does not support the video tag. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Selected Early Work :: 2004-2012
Root City Thorn, 2010 Margaretha Haughwout Root, City, Thorn, 2010 A conversation while collecting medicinal hawthorn berries from the trees growing beside the old immigration hospital on Angel Island ... A part of Mary Walling Blackburn's Radical Citizenship: The Tutorials on Angel Island and at Southern Exposure Angel Island: Friday, September 17th, 2010 10:00 AM [...]
Computer as Medium, or Beyond the Commons, or From Cybernetics to Permaculture
n the Film and Digital Media Department of the University of California Santa Cruz. visit: [The Course Website]. A conceptual, perceptual and technical class. from the syllabus: in this class we will make connections between digital and physical realms. we do this while investigating a variety systems — from cybernetics to permaculture. for the first […]