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SUE-C

Artist & Technologist

  • About
  • Work
  • Living History
  • Creative code
  • Process
  • Contact

Live Films

  • This is Happening (2015-present), improvisational live film with live electronic music by Shawn Trail.

  • Art Kit Puncture (2013-present), a two part live film, including a re-mix of Gordon Matta Clark’s “Conical Intersect” and a handmade counterpart; 20 min

  • If I Tell You a Thing (2012 - 2013), live film and sound performance, including vocals; 22 min.

  • Occupy My Mind (2011-2012), a live film inspired by audio recordings of the Occupy Oakland movement, sound and video by SUE-C; 16 min.

  • Infinite Jest (2012), an installation with a performance component, based loosely on the novel by David Foster Wallace; commissioned by Marco Museum for Active Presence, a group show curated by Kathleen Forde and Sergio Edelsztein; in collaboration with musician AGF.

  • Sheepwoman (2011-2013), a live film based loosely on the writings of Haruki Murakami; in collaboration with Laetitia Sonami; made possible by a MAP Grant award, in conjunction with Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). www.sheepwoman.com

  • Until Spring (2008-2011), an audio-visual surround sound performance with electronic music composer, Morton Subotnick. Released in DVD format by Mode Records.

  • I. C. You (2006-2011), a live film shot and scored from two suitcases, a bowl of water and a piece of ice; in collaboration with sound artist, Laetitia Sonami, and poet Tom Sleigh. Made possible in part by a residency at Montalvo Arts Center, CA.

  • Lives of Ordinary Things (2005-2007), a live, hand-made film exploring the intimate goings-on of small objects, paper products, shiny surfaces and other treasures. These ordinary things are animated into living landscapes with the assistance of a live camera, lightpad, flashlights and a computer-based compositing machine. With sound. Running time: 25 minutes. Solo.

Recorded Works

  • "A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (Revisted)", color multi + single-channel digital video, sound by Morton Subotnick / 9 min / 2011

  • "Dekalog", color digital video for Defchild Records 10th anniversary DVD release / 60 min / 2010

  • "99 Famous Views", color digital video / 3 min / 2006 (for the group show "East Side Story" at YBCA)

  • “Mini Movies”, a DVD/CD release featuring a 27 minute short film and 7 audio-visual collaborations with AGF, on Asphodel Records:

  • ”fourtythousand3hundred20 memories, color digital video / 27:34 / 2005

  • "99 famous views on garage doors, color digital video / 1:27 / 2005

  • "99 long eyelands, color digital video / 1:30 / 2005

  • "naturestille", color digital video / 0:33 / 2005

  • "directly beside you", color digital video / 2:26 / 2005

  • "who wants to grow up?", color digital video / 0:22 / 2005

  • "sonic pollution", color digital video / 3:16 / 2005

  • "dancing maschine", color digital video / 2:06 / 2005

  • "still.not.still", b&w digital video / 5 min / 2004

  • "amp, swell", color digital video / 4 min / 2004

  • "film me", color digital video / 3 min / 2002

  • "live at the lab", color digital video / 8 min / 2002

Performances &
Screenings

 

  • Pacific Vortex, PNCA, Portland, OR, January 2016

  • Control Voltage, Portland, OR, August 2015

  • SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA, May 2013, November 2012, April 2010

  • EMPAC, Infinite Jest (live version), April 2012

  • MediaLive Festival, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, July 2012

  • Laboral, Gijon, Spain, October 2012

  • Marco Museum, Vigo, Spain January 2012

  • Transito Festival, Mexico City, September 2011

  • EMPAC, Filament Festival, Troy, NY, September 2010

  • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA, April 2009

  • Great American Music Hall, SF, CA, July 2008

  • ATA, San Francisco, April 2008

  • La Casa Encendida, Madrid, February 2008

  • EMPAC @RPI, Troy, NY, October 2007

  • Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, May 2007

  • The Game is Up, Vooruit, Gent, February 2007

  • Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, April 2007

  • Dallas Contemporary, February 2007

  • Live Cinema Nights at ISEA, San Jose, August 2006

  • Montalvo Arts Center, August 2006

  • San Francisco International Film Festival, April 2006

  • Pixelache Festival at Kiasma, Helsinki, April 2006

  • Say It Now Festival at Vooruit, Gent, March 2006

  • Activating the Medium Festival, San Francisco, February 2006

  • REDCAT, Los Angeles, January 2006

  • Sonar Festival, Barcelona, June 2005

  • Hip Chips, NYC, February 2005

  • Ars Electronica, Linz, September 2004 & 2005

  • Milano Film Festival, September 2004

  • Monkeytown, NYC, April 2004

  • Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, May 2004

  • Dispatch Festival, Belgrade, October 2003

  • Sounds French, Berkeley, March 2003

  • Sonic Light, Amsterdam, January 2003

  • Mutek, Montreal, May 2002

  • Rooms for Listening, CCAC/San Francisco, September 2000

  • Transmediales, Berlin, in the RML CineChamber, Feb 2011

  • Live Cinema: Realtime Audiovisual Art, produced by the Mediateca of Caixaforum in Barcelona, 2009

  • Colorfield Variations, USA (various), Israel, Belgium, Spring 2007 - Present

  • The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, March 2007

  • Yerba Buena Center for the Arts "East Side Story", San Francisco, October 2006

  • Oberhausen Short Film Festival, May 2006

  • Out of Sync/PDX Film Festival, April 2006

  • Sex and Sadness, Rotterdam and Istanbul, (curated by Jan Schuijren), March 2006

  • Forty Winks at EgoPark Gallery, Oakland, December 2005

  • MonkeyTown, November 2005 (curated by Golan Levin)

  • Transmediales Festival, Berlin, Germany, January 2004

  • 7th Video Arte Electronica Festival, Lima, Peru, June 2003 (curated by Kathleen Forde)

  • Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, Texas, March 2003

  • CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Fall 2002

  • - - (part of Techne: Things in the Making, curated by Marina McDougall & Adi Shami)

  • Reline, DVD Compilation, 2002/3

  • - - (screened at X-Fest, NYC; Guggenheim Bilbao; AMODA; DV-Cinema, St. Paul; Die-Lounge, Germany; and Transcinema, SF)

  • Video-Sho at EgoPark Gallery, Oakland, September 2002 (curated by Aisha Burns)

  • Air Portugal, Pond Gallery, San Francisco, Fall 2001

Publications

  • Live performance artist feature in: Programming Media by Casey Reas and Ben Fry, MIT Press

  • Contributor to ‘vE-”jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video by Xarene Eskandar

  • Contributor to A/V: Vjing and Audio Visual Art by D-Fuse

Distributed Media

  • “Morton Subotnick: Electronic Works 3”, DVD, color digital video / 80 min / 2012

  • "Dekalog", DVD, color digital video / 60 min / 2010 (released on de'fchild productions)

  • "Mini Movies" CD/DVD on Asphodel Ltd. (2,000 copies; released Spring 2006)

  • Contributor to Sonic Acts DVD (10,000 copies; distributed with WIRE Magazine in February 2007

  • Reline 1 and 2 DVDs (500 copies)

Teaching Positions

  • Portland Community College, Professor, “Creative Coding” (Portland, OR) 2017-current

  • California College of Art, Adjunct Professor, “Reconstructing Video”, “Math and Media” (Oakland, CA) 2005-2012

  • Interactive Video for Performance and Installation San Francisco Institute of Art, Instructor, Center for Digital Media, 2004 – 2006

  • Jitter Intensive Workshops, UCLA, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Various Dates

  • Dis-patch School for New Media Manipulation, Belgrade, Serbia September 2004

  • UC Berkeley, Teaching Assistant Fall 1999 – Spring 2001

 

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