Part two of my Dreamy project is live!  This part is called Dreamy Me because it contains my dreams only.  They will be accumulating for the entire month as I have (and remember) them, so you’ll be able to listen to more and more incomprehensible glimpses into my inner world as the days progress.  I am hoping this is significantly more scary to me than it will be to you…

Dreamy Me is part of a series of exhibits called ‘Now. Here. This.‘, curated and hosted by 3-art, a wonderful triumvirate of artists/curators who do a whole bunch of amazing things.  Please check it out; you can listen and customize your audio stream right from the website and every time you listen, it will sound different, so check back frequently!

I’ve just finished and released the first part of a bigger project centered on exploring dreams and people’s recollections of them. Hotel Dreamy was commissioned by the Museums and the Web conference, which provided a great opportunity for me to begin this series of pieces.

I never used to be very good at recollecting my dreams, but somehow when I think more about remembering them, it’s easier to do so. I’ve been recording mine when I wake up in the middle of the night and then I proceed to forget them entirely so when I listen later, it’s new again, which is pretty cool.

More on the project and how to listen and record your own dreams on the Hotel Dreamy page.  And an excerpt of the music here:

I am working on a piece for the journal of Public Art Dialogue, an organization dedicated to promoting discourse on public art globally. Contrary to what it sounds like, I am not writing an essay (readers rejoice!), but rather have been asked to create a new artwork specifically for the journal itself. This is a bit of an experiment for any academic journal to take this approach, but it seemed pretty interesting to me, so I was excited to get involved.

The title of the issue is “Audience Response” and there will a number of scholarly articles, another art project and my piece, called Music for Journaling.  It’s fairly obvious why they wanted my work for an issue on this topic!

Essentially, I will be writing a piece of music designed to be listened and contributed to by people who are reading or have read the journal itself.  I envision people all over the world reading the journal in the comfort of their own homes while hearing ongoing and evolving commentary from each other.  I hope the experience will be as if you are jumping into the collective stream of consciousness of all the journal readers as they explore the ideas, philosophies and opinions expressed about public art throughout the journal.

I will be living in DC for two months during this fall and winter as a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. I’m exploring the vast collections of audio recordings they have spread throughout the institution for use in future projects. It’s pretty great to be able to do research and have the opportunity to really experiment with no hard exhibition dates to hit (yet!).

I’ve started a SARF blog (Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship…they love acronyms down here) if you want to hear more about what I’m up to with this on an ongoing basis.