My creative work focuses on experimental and new media storytelling.
CURRENT WORK:
Stori Strong
Stori Strong has two moms… and a donut. Or at least, that’s what she thought when she was little. It turns out she has a donor, not a donut, and as she explains, a “donor” is someone who helps two moms create a baby. In this limited series, Stori gardens with friends (episode 1), attends theater camp (episode 2), hosts a bake sale (episode 3), and celebrates her 10th birthday (episode 4). She also tells the audience all about what it’s like being a donor-conceived kid with two moms.
Pilot episode: Stori and her nonbinary best friend, Zee, show up to Neighborhood Garden Day only to find out they will be gardening for her extra-strict Language Arts teacher, Mrs. Pritzberry.
Ravel (here)
An interactive video designed to be watched on a smartphone.
Style Guide for Erasing Human Dignity: Linguistic strategies for a broken world (here)
An artist book, with satirical text and augmented video:
An interactive, web-based documentary:
Building Blocks: Interactive Conversations with LGBTQ Families (on-going)
RECENT WORK:
Here Is Beautiful: Postcards from Ireland – June, 2018
An immersive video “postcard”
An augmented reality game
Free Swim (created in collaboration with Kathy Mueller, 2016)
A web-based interactive multimedia novel
Closer Than Rust (2011-2017)
Locative media stories, accessed via QR Codes
Language/Absence Series (3 projects, 2012-2013)
EARLIER WORK:
Public installations, video sculptures & other surprises:
Alternative Screens (9 projects, 2005-2012)
Independent feature film, “experimental drama”
Hold The Sun (2009)
LGBTQ-empowering narrative short videos
The Lydia Pink Project (2002-2006)
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