Resistance is futile.
I honestly can't remember who took this -- if it was you, please say so! -- but it might be my all-time favorite photo of myself from a performance. I believe it was the time I played at @triptronicsresearch .
#cyberpunk #cybergoth #scifi #scifiart #darkart #performanceart
These were the original versions of my main instruments, the Scalar Glove and the Vector Glove. I designed them to work with Eurorack: the Scalar Glove was supposed to send gate signals when I bent the fingers of my left hand, and the Vector Glove was supposed to provide CV signals based on the absolute orientation in X, Y, and Z of my right hand.
I ended up giving up on this because I couldn't get a smooth analog CV output from the gloves. This was probably just a failure of electrical engineering on my part (not really my strong suit, although I'm much better now) but it was frustrating enough that I decided to move to a different setup. An extra advantage of moving away from trying to use analog out was that I didn't need as many PWM pins, so now I can run both gloves off a single Nano, whereas with this setup I needed a Mega for the Vector Glove.
#arduino #eurorack #instrument #electronicmusic #noisemusic #wearableart #wearabletech #womeninstem
I think this photo is from my second show ever as 80KV, at a now-defunct club in downtown SLC. This was the first version of the mask, with blue LEDs, and the first version of the gloves -- they were still wired, I needed a laptop to process the data, and I was using backing tracks for percussion (ew) and MIDI.
It's kind of wild how much things have changed since then. But even though my current gear is a lot more sophisticated, it's actually way easier to set up and use. I'm pretty proud of that.
#cyberpunk #cybergoth #industrial #industrialmusic #noise #noisemusic #arduino
When I was a kid, my dad decided to build a harp, from scratch. I don't know exactly why but I expect the answer is something like "because he could". Playing the harp was a kind of status symbol among the upper middle class Mormons I grew up with, but I was a little too, well, autistic to realize that. Instead I just kind of stumbled into to backwards because there just happened to be a harp in my house. He ended up making a couple dozen harps before retiring from it because it had stopped being fun.
The one I use for my shows isn't one he made. It's from Lyon and Healey, a company that I later realized sucks. The harp itself is great, but god their customer service is awful. I have a dream of making my own someday but I'd have to learn a little more about analog audio first.
#harp #cyborg #cyberpunk #performanceart
Of course, I don't only make spooky sculptures. I also dress up like a goth-ass cyborg and make unpleasant music by waving my hands around.
My next upcoming show will be at NorCal Noisefest at the beginning of October. More info on that soon!
#cyberpunk #cybergoth #cyborg #noise #noisemusic #industrial #industrialmusic #electronicmusic
Baby, 2020
This is the end of this particular post block. I hope you've enjoyed it! I'm incredibly proud of this piece and I hope that more people will get to see it in real life someday.
Baby, 2020
Mannequin torso wrapped in muslin fabric. A fountain pump pushes a dyed mixture of water and oil out through certain "wounds" on the body, which saturates and stains the fabric over time.
#horror #horrorart #bodyhorror #darkart #contemporaryart
Baby, 2020
This piece came out of my experience attempting to get a medically necessary hysterectomy in Utah in my mid-20s. As shitty as the medical condition that necessitated it was, by far the worst part of the experience was trying to convince the medical establishment in Utah -- a low-grade theocracy dedicated to a religion that views women as little more than breeding stock -- to let me get it.
It's frightening to me to watch all the restrictions that are popping up around women's health. I read recently about a Missouri attempt to classify IUDs as abortifacients, which is both ignorant and a great way to cause completely avoidable suffering in people who (like me) cannot take hormonal birth control for health reasons. Unfortunately I can't force lawmakers to experience what it's like to spend four months covered in hives before they rule on these things, so instead I make fucked up art about it.
#art #feministart #womeninart #blood #gore #horror #bodyhorror #darkart #punkart #fuckthepatriarchy
Baby, 2020
WIP shot from when I'd first added the tubes. I initially meant for the torso to be vertical, but I couldn't get it to work and, getting extremely frustrated, pushed it over. That bent the metal rods I was using to hold it up, which let me reimagine how I wanted it to look.
Baby, 2020
Wherein I try to boost ~enagagement~ by posting every day for a week, which supposedly makes the ~algorithm~ think I'm a ~content creator~, and I post a lot of images of the same thing in a row because apparently ~consistency~ also helps
Anyway, this is yet again a creepy-ass sculpture I made with a mannequin torso and a fountain pump and some goop. I feel like it looks kinda cenobite-y.
#creepy #horror #gore #horrorart #hellraiser #cenobite #darkart #blood
