Kevin's Projects Now And Then
Project Highlights
- Wendy's Wok World Karaoke
- Cajun Hooper
- Cory Arcangel's /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD
- Mister Shane: Second Shane | Content: Volume One | Dog Shadow | Thought Blog
- Pleasure Seeker: From Tony Rontino's | Clap
- It's Coming a Storm Show @ Harvestworks
- Very Early Next.js
- Socket.IO 1.0
- Artforum Artguide
- VSCO
- Stennis Space Center
2024
Custom Karaoke Video Software for Wendy's Wok World's Art Basel (Switzerland...) Parcours Project. Code is here.
Video of first-person basketball with some video glasses I've been experimenting with.
2022
A large restaurant database I was experimenting with for a while to learn more about Notion...
2021
Software Art for Cory Arcangel's Century 21 show. A pretty complex project—AI using computer vision to infinitely play the now-defunct Kim Kardashian: Hollywood Android game. Showed at Greene Naftali Gallery in Chelsea. More information here and here. Collaborated with Henry Van Dusen in a major way on this one. Daniel Lopatin (OPN) made the sound, which I thought at one point would really impact my life.
2018
2017
I redesigned the Artforum Artguide website, a while ago. It is a guide to art events in New York City.
Spaghetti's Supper Club
October 2017Spaghetti's is an Italian-American performance-oriented dinner-and-a-show supper club.
It's Coming a Storm (Praise Receiver) was an attempt to measure the Internet attention received by people who have made lives of thriving on it.
It was produced for an exhibition at Harvestworks from 06/22/17-06/25/17. I can't lie the experience of this totally broke me for a while and made me want to stop producing things in public. More info here.
It takes the form of two 3D environments. The first contains 8 ogreish politicans and celebrities swinging from chains as they accumulate Attention Coins, groan, and swell as the size of their audience ebbs and flows. The second (THE ORB) invites participation and manipulates a humanoid body for every Twitter person that signs up here. The energy of the orb is dictated by our collective sum of attention received over the past 24 hours. Warning that most laptops may not render these videos very well, or they might get really hot.
Sound produced in collaboration with Tommmy Martinez. Below are some images of the install / screenshots from the 3D environments.
I designed & developed this site for Giphy (The BigGifWebsite) to celebrate the history of the GIF image format. It was shown at the TIME_FRAME exhibition in New York City with a bunch of GIF art. Made with guidance of Computer Lab.
"Unelected" - Perc (Video)
April 2017"Unelected" is a track from Perc's 2017 album Bitter Music, released on Perc Trax.
Bernhard Fasenfest and I created a video for the track using repetitive flashing and blending of news images from the world events of 2016 and early 2017.
Flashing Images Warning ;p
"Falcon Passport" - DIVORCE (Video)
February 2017DIVORCE released Jet Fuel, their first EP, via NYC's Sweat Equity; it is very good electronic music.
This is a music video for the fourth track of Jet Fuel. A creature learns to fly. I tried to blend real-world and digital-world footage in a somewhat fluid way. Really getting deep into the bird world.
Simulacrum, Everywhere
February 2017Donald J. Trump State Park" is a 436-acre undeveloped plot of land in Putnam County, New York. It was called a state park from 2006 until 2010, when the state abandoned it because of budget cuts. It has rested unused for seven years, wasted.
On January 20th 2017 I brought a 55-gallon steel drum into the former park and a bag of shredded $10,000. I poured the money into the barrel and I played with it. I held the money in my hands and I threw it in the air and back down into the barrel. I lit the money on fire but I became afraid, the sight of burning money made my stomach churn. I poured a gallon of spring water from a plastic jug onto the pile of burning money to extinguish the flames. I held the burnt damp money in my hands, towards the sky. I carried the barrel out of the wasteland and went home.
2016
Bird Sculpture (FREEDOM)
December 2016Multimedia installation about birds, guilt, replication, and abstraction.
Gruen (NAME ON THE FRONT PAGE)
December 2016Infinitely-growing black pillars in a black box lit by red and blue. Made for projection at a Cyberpunk Event...
Music video for the single "True" from the Broken Spear album True. Lots of Pensacola Beach Wedding Footage.
LIVE ALBUM RECORDED FROM TONY RONTINO'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT IN WEST CHESTER - Italian Food.
Lemonade Performance
October 2016Mister Shane is selling the performance of the sale of a glass of lemonade for $1,000.
BDSMR is a really good minimal electronic album by SWEET NOTHINGS. I did not make the music, but I made the website, some photos, two videos (ETERNITY and ZODIAC) and the album art (with help!). Click it!!
THE WATCHER
October 2016THE WATCHER is a film about watching. It is a concatenation of a lot of footage of watching. Watch THE WATCHER.
Music tracks made from clap sounds. Mainly the 808 clap sound, the cheap toy one not the real one. I learned that when it was too late. Every sound is a clap. Please clap.
Luddy put me on his list. A compilation of financial tech recruiting email correspondence that took place over the course of 20 months followed by a devolving sequence of collage-accompanied reflections. I have a small run of printed copies available, please contact me to obtain one :).
There It Is
October 2016A 32 epsiode cooking and lifestyle series performed by "Kev." "What's new with you?" "I've been cooking a lot recently." "Oh."
Here I Am
October 2016A 28 epsiode series of instructional yoga videos performed by "Kev." I did the same thing every day but I did not improve.
Mister Shane researched 50 amazing facts about the hit TV series Stranger Things.
I put all of the essays about past that I wrote in the Spring of 2016 in a book, with some photos taken by my mom and myself.
Johnny Football
June 2016I hope Johnny goes to jail music. I hope my son goes to jail music. I hope my dad goes to jail music.
My Bad Video
June 2016Video for the Dog Shadow track. I took off my shirt again.
I worked under Guillermo Rauch for Vercel (then called Zeit) on some very early versions of the React framework now known as Next.js. Generally I have learned so much from him and am grateful for his guidance!
Wasted Years Video
May 2016Video for the Dog Shadow track. Footage from an urban domestic dog park in downtown New York City.
Dog Years
May 2016An album of Hard Emotional Tracks divided into three thematic acts: you can hear the pride!! Swelling! Big bunch of ideas in this one. Listen to "Inside Man" and "Cut It Off."
HDS VOL. 1
May 2016A data-object media compilation on which a lot of my and friends' recent projects/work/data was released! You can purchase HDS Vol. 1 at www.hdsllc.website. Please do it and support friends and lovers everywhere!!
At Sea
May 2016Mister Shane went on a Carnival cruise from New Orleans to Mexico. This is a multimedia collection made of music and photos from that journey. A journey at sea. Every sound is either a field recording from the ship or Shane's voice. He went on vacation. He got what he wanted. He found it.
A set of 32 of the Greatest Pop Love Songs Of All Time that I compiled and recorded renditions of with the aid of YouTube lyrics videos. An icy-hot profession of love and pain.
midi-timing
May 2016A small utility to convert MIDI files (.mid) to an easy-to-read JSON structure of offset times and durations
A video permutation series where 13 poems, ascending from in length from three to fifteen lines, are mechanically read in every possible permutated line-order. It's Very Cool™.
NYC Fraternity big birdhouse themed party commissioned request for video project with no reference to birds so I referenced construction because it is through architecture through which we humans fly.
A rainbow spectrum of films where each frame is reduced to its most relevant color and rendered into an ABSTRACT COLORSTREAM. Recommended: Minions.
A stream of Facebook's emotive digital memories flashes before your physical eyes.
A series of endless films about family and spectacle featuring delicate clips from TV's Family Feud.
2015
Faithful Companion
December 2015The first music release from Dog Shadow, featuring blasted electronic emotional dog sounds.
A complex and growing interactive world unified by consistent themes both contemporary + eternal. Please explore and see what you can find...
Mister Shane's musings on life, career, family.
Helps us track what we say about God, right now. Good or bad? Is it two-way?
30 Pushups By Myself
November 20159 hours of accumulated clerical mistakes. Work and Work and Work and this is what I get. 11 minute video.
Fall through the Hole. Easy and Quick and at Home. Rapid View all the Art ever exhibited at the David Zwirnher New York City Art Gallery. 15 minutes recommended.
A collection of poems hailing the One Man One Tool One Purpose ideology. Please contact me to obtain a physical book.
A persistent new world, boiling the essence, becoming. Chat and interact with others and me.
Job Fair
March 2015Simulation of a startup job fair / earn and prove your worth
Shane's Tweet Heaven
February 2015Explore your twitter self with a museum made just for u
2014
Ronald
December 2014He just can't seem to get outside of that computer trash can. Help him.
Strength.js
October 2014Tech Masculinity / Wrestling Dylan with Kinect puppets
First collection of tracks from Mister Shane, experimental audiovisual project from Sean and Kev.
Socket.IO Computer
May 2014A collaborative windows xp emulator that runs in browser, powered by 100% JavaScript and Socket.IO 1.0, made with Guillermo Rauch.
Straightedge Cop 2014 Demo
May 2014Hardcore straightedge sermon music. First small demo lol its coming back one day
I worked under Guillermo Rauch, my Open Source Mentor, on developing version 1.0 of Socket.IO, the best bidirectional realtime JavaScript communication library 2014 could dream of!
2013
2010
An amazing man named Kemal taught me how to do research and program computers when I was in high school. We did research on the Turkish Straights. I played basketball against the rocket scientists every day at lunch in the Mississippi Heat.
Project Highlights
- Wendy's Wok World Karaoke
- Cajun Hooper
- Cory Arcangel's /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD
- Mister Shane: Second Shane | Content: Volume One | Dog Shadow | Thought Blog
- Pleasure Seeker: From Tony Rontino's | Clap
- It's Coming a Storm Show @ Harvestworks
- Very Early Next.js
- Socket.IO 1.0
- Artforum Artguide
- VSCO
- Stennis Space Center