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  • Suspension
    Contemporary spaces are dynamic combinations of the real and the virtual. They are accessed, ordered, and navigated under the conditions of various online and offline protocols. These protocols include computer formats and settings, social codes and...
  • Drive -
    Drive is a video installation that combines traditional cinematic technology with new digital and military-based imaging systems. These include new tracking, identifying, and targeting technologies. Combining old and new, analog and network, civilian...
  • The six video segments in Jordan Crandall's installation Heatseeking were shot with a diverse array of technologies, including surveillance apparatuses used by the U.S. Border Patrol to search out and capture illegal immigrants crossing over from...
  • Trigger -
    "Part soft-core pornography, part political allegory and part Modernist play with media," Jordan Crandall's Trigger is a "sermon about masculinity, sex, surveillance, and violence." (Ken Johnson, The New York Times, 15 Nov 2002).

    "The work...
  • Homefront -
    HOMEFRONT Surveillance, monitoring, and tracking technologies are not only media of control; they are media of self-reflection and self-awareness. There is a reciprocity between the way that control technologies function and the way that identity...
  • Under Fire -
    UNDER FIRE is an ongoing art and research project that explores militarization and political violence. It delves into the structural, symbolic, and affective dimensions of armed conflicts: the organization, representation, and materialization of war....
  • Recollections I-IV -
    Recollections IV is an interactive video installation that invites the participant to move in front of a large video projection screen. As the person moves, his or her image is recorded by a video camera and passed on to a computer with special image...
  • Sym-Ulations -
    Sym-Ulations allows participants to explore the asymmetry of their own faces.It also allows them to use their own face to create humorous impossible faces.

    User Interaction:
    The user holds a "Setup" button and sees a mirror image of his face on...
  • Do-Undo -
    Do-Undo allows a participant to do perform movements in a spaceand immediately see the movements forwards and backwards.

    User Experience:
    The participant stands in a space in front of a camera and video projection system. On the screen...
  • Elastic Surgery -
    ELASTIC SURGERY is an artwork that allows a participant to perform subtle or gross distortions to his or her own face. While some of the changes may be possible by conventional plastic surgery, most could only be achieved by these electronic means,...