Workshop Offerings

Digital Creatures (30-60 min), best for 12-20 people

Inspired by artists such as Nam June Paik and Tony Oursler, this workshop playfully challenges students to perform, collaborate, and reimagine their devices as collaborative and compositional tools while embracing the grotesque. Digital Creatures asks participants to use their bodies as elements to create a new “creature”, in an amalgamation of everyone in a group. I also ask the participants to name the creature, make a mode of locomotion clear (it swims in the ocean, floats in the air, walks on all ten, etc.), and tell us about their personality or habits. This is a great ice-breaker workshop that gets everyone moving, working together, and leads to a lot of laughter and silliness. We normally take votes for which creature is the favorite.

For longer workshops, I pair this with an introductory prompt, where I ask the groups to make a composition with their devices that features videos from their camera roll that remind them of home. Often the videos are chosen around themes of nature, such as water. The presentations feature little stories about the video clips and why it’s meaningful to each person. This has been a great project when we have an internationally diverse group

I contextualize the projects by showing clips from my work that use my body parts in performance to make new creatures, as well as how I use footage from my life to create imagery for my pieces.

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