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 participants to perform, collaborate, and reimagine their devices as compositional tools while embracing the grotesque. Digital Creatures asks participants to use their bodies as elements to create a new "creature" — an amalgamation of everyone in the group. Participants are also asked to name the creature, define its mode of locomotion (it swims in the ocean, floats in the air, walks on all ten legs, etc.), and describe its personality or habits. This is a great icebreaker that gets everyone moving and working together, and leads to a lot of laughter and silliness. We normally vote for a favorite creature at the end.

This workshop promotes collaboration, quick thinking, physical engagement, problem-solving, thinking of screens as objects in space, and humor.

For longer workshops, I pair this with an introductory prompt in which I ask groups to create a composition with their devices featuring videos from their camera roll that remind them of home. The videos are often chosen around themes of nature, such as water. The presentations involve short stories about each clip and why it is meaningful to that person. This has been a particularly effective project with internationally diverse groups.

I contextualize both projects by showing clips from my own work — using body parts in performance to create new creatures, and using footage from my own life to generate imagery for my pieces.

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