Exit Zero: An Atlas of One City Block Through Time

A web-based interactive documentary ( "iDoc") of the history of a single central city block in San Francisco.

Official Selection, 2022 FLEFF - Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival

DOROTHEA LANGE DIGITAL ARCHIVE

Producer/Co-Curator, interactive micro-site, Oakland Museum of California.

NY Times article: “Images of California’s History That Endure,” Jill Cowan, Sept. 4, 2020
SF Chronicle: “Dorothea Lange’s photography, newly archived online at Oakland Museum, eternally relevant,” Aug. 13, 2020
San Jose Mercury News: Aug. 12, 2020
KQED: “The Oakland Museum’s Dorothea Lange Collection is Now Online,” Aug. 6, 2020

LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS

A multi-media, solo performance blending video projections, sock puppets, spoken word and original song. Using Pieter Brueghel’s painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” as a jumping off point, six characters: Icarus, Pieter Brueghel, Henry Hudson, The Wall Street Minotaur, Amelia Earhart, and David Rockefeller present a “strange, funny, and chilling fugue” about ambition and recklessness. The Directed by Miguel Gutierrez, live music by Ryder Cooley, electronic sound and animations by Peter Kerlin, costumes by Jocelyn Davis, set design by Andrea Stanley, lighting by Carrie Wood. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus premiered at the Abrons Arts Center November 11-20, 2010 as a special event of the MIX/NYC Queer Experimental Media Festival. The work was developed during residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Experimental Television Center, Mount Tremper Arts, and a Media Fellowship at Dance Theater Workshop and was presented as work-in-progress at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Radar Reading Series, the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco and Dixon Place.

CYBERSTROIKA

Co-Producer, Curator and Multimedia Installation Artist
a special multimedia exposition of queer visions of the future
part of Frameline's 19th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, 1995.

co-produced with Jeffrey Winter, Jose Guevara, Samuael Topiary, David Averbach, Cary Boisvert, Bert Green and Nicole Scheller
co-presented by Please Louise Productions, Museo Contempo, Frameline and Southern Exposure

incorporating the work of over 100 artists in six main exhibition areas:
The Safer Sex Visitors Center, The Hal 2000 Social Plan, The CyberExpo, ZöLoft, a cyber-pirate space-ship rave installation, the Bargain Basement.

See Level

Video Projection Designer, David Dorfman Dance Company

The Kitchen, New York, NY, 2003 - world premiere;
Connecticut College, Hartford, CT, 2003;
Eugene & Elinor Friend Center for the Arts, JCC, San Francisco, CA, 2005

Dance Magazine: "Samuael Topiary's striking video design of lapis lazuli seas and textural close-ups human skin created a rich visual environment..."

Allan Ulrich's review : "...Samuael Topiary's impressive visual design"

Rita Felciano's review: "...Samuael Topiary’s excellent video design... In addition to projecting mirror images of continents rubbing against each, Topiary created a series of ocean derived videos, sometimes literal sea shores with lapping waves but also dark sea walls full of mysterious movement, and a sense of underwater life.”

TECHNOPIA, HOST OF SHTUDIO SHOW

From 2005-06, Technopia was the host of the infamous Shtudio Show at Chez Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY, where she conducted interviews with numerous cultural luminaries of the dance and performance world including Deborah Hay, Vallejo Gantner, Cathy Edwards, Gia Kourlas and Carla Peterson.

Shtudio Show was a multi-disciplinary performance party curated by choreographer Miguel Gutierrez and hosted by Jeremy Wade, Loren Dempster, and Jonah Bokaer at Chez Bushwick, a live/work loft space located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Shtudio Show offered a “shmorgasbord of cutting-edge dance, new music and other performance.”