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February 2010
Panel @ CAA 2010: New Media Caucus
I will be presenting "Limited Set: Generative Intersections of Theater and Artificial Life" at CAA 2010 in Chicago with invited panelists.
January 2010
"The Goat Said..." published by Publishing Genius
“The Goat Said...” was created by entering public domain books into an artificial intelligence “conversation simulator.”
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New Media Fest features snstncntnrs
Utilizing the chance operations of broken telematic machines to scramble and reorganize a fictional reality, frame by frame, snstncntnrs is an open video project in the form of files that include a set of cuts described in a EDL and Final Cut Pro XML file. These cuts can be applied to any video using video editing applications.
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December 2009
TEH: plot
The third weather-based exploration of collaborative effort TEH (Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Westbrook) is titled "plot" and will take place at the Fort Point Arts Community Gallery in Boston.
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November 2009
Every Day War @ The Grey Market, NYC
Every Day is a three channel video installation and a single-channel video created in a collaborative effort with Ron Buffington and Jessica Westbrook. Every day life continues in parallel to the war. We eat, sleep, shop, consume and enjoy while people all over the world die as a direct result of our action and inaction.
November 14 - 28, 2009, 252 West 31st Street at Eighth Ave., Third and Fourth Floors, (Southwest corner of Penn Station)
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October 2009
[TEH] Nowcasting at Sewanee's University Art Gallery
Visitors to Nowcasting will experience the building of a digitized storm in the confines of the gallery. Like TEH's other works, this installation is intended to "challenge the senses through the use of simulation, and present weather/environment through mediated, virtual and physical processes."
Collaboration with Westbrook and Lewis under TEH banner.
October 9 - November 22, 2009
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Product Placement
Product Placements as part of Le Flash, a dusk to midnight festival of art and performance. Le Flash is the first event of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, a weeklong photo festival and conference. Trowbridge and Westbrook are presenting mobile video projections of corporate branding slogans and city marketing slogans combined, and on fire. The work focuses on empty marketing phrases generatively combined with phrases from urban renewal and gentrification.
October 2, Dusk to Midnight
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August 2009
Hole of Society: On The Passage of a Small Dog through a Rather Shallow Amount of Water
I will be performing "Hole of Society: On The Passage of a Small Dog through a Rather Shallow Amount of Water" with Sophie Hypno Disco on August 8 as part of Low Lives. Low Lives is a one-night exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at three venues in the U.S.: FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Diaspora Vibe Gallery, Miami; and labotanica, Houston in partnership with Project Row Houses.
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March 2009
Dog Days
Adam Trowbridge"Dog Days", an experimental theater performance incorporating live theater, iPod-shuffled dialogue and Ninetendo Wiimote-controled video projection at the University of Illinois Chicago's Art and Architecture building on March 18 and March 19 at 8 PM.
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January 2009
Soiree Clin D'oeil au Detournement
My video "The Towering Inferno", an intersection of Die Hard and Oliver Stone's 9/11 premiered at Daki Ling, Le jardin des Muses, Marseille, France, January 13, 2009.
BIN (co-curating)
SEED, an art collective in Chattanooga, TN will turn a gallery installation into a distance-collapsing intersection of social practice + collective action + time/site sensitive negotiations.
SEED is pleased to announce the participation/contribution by some fantastic collectives including Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), 6+ , and The Yes Men.
The motivation for BIN comes through a need to address the historical marginalization of artists and methods for overcoming this scenario. Each collective involved in this project is a vital model for alternative pathways, invention, action, and interdisciplinary approaches to making. This project is not predetermined. Instead of formulas, conventions, expectations, and objects - SEED is working with online relationships, and local negotiations. BIN will turn a gallery installation into a distance-collapsing intersection of diversity + social practice + collective action + time/site sensitive negotiations.
More about BIN
December 2008
Wiimote-Based Video Control System
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The system is written in Max/MSP/Jitter and takes advantage of Andreas Schlegel's OSC version of Hiroaki Kimura's darwiinRemote.
Basekamp
Jessica Westbrook and I recently began working with Basekamp, a non-commercial organization of people researching and co-developing interdisciplinary, self-organized art projects with other individuals and groups in various authorship-blurring configurations for the past decade.
You can join us every Tuesday night:
Weekly potluck skype chats
Tuesdays; 6.00 - 8.00 PM
In person (Philadelphia), or on Skype, skypename: ‘basekamp’
Basekamp will host Plausible Artworlds, a collaborative initiative that aims to provide a platform for examining and accompanying the emergence of plural artistic environments, for the duration of 2010.
Art Work
As part of Temporary Services' publication "Art Work: A National Conversation About Art Labor and Economics," Jessica Westbrook and I were invited to discuss out experience working collaboratively in the south. We were happy to have a chance to participate in this vital discussion about the place of art in the economy and the effect of the economy on art.
"Art Work" features the writings of Julia Bryan-Wilson, author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam Era (2009) and Work Ethic (2003); Holland Cotter, New York Times Art Critic and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism; Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, and Robby Herbst, editors for The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; Harrell Fletcher, visual artist; Futurefarmers, a collective design studio that supports art projects, artists in residencies and research interests; Robin Hewlett, artist/activist; Justseeds: Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative; Nicolas Lampert, interdisciplinary artist; Lize Mogel, interdisciplinary artist; and Dan S. Wang, artist and writer.
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TEH (2009 - 2010)
TEH is a common typographical error and refers to a collaborative art and technology group with interests in research, displaced communication, simulation, nature/culture, and geography. TEH involves Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook. TEH projects are built using semantic visual cues (iconic and charged, often sculptural and/or video components), and interactive pieces that expand upon ideas through sensory/participatory elements. Beyond the internal negotiations of collaboration, the process often incorporates site-sentive research, so that the work is made in direct response to the place in which it will live. TEH is currently examining weather as a shared experience/vocabulary, and presents this research through installation and technologically mediated experience.
SEED (2005 - 2009)
In 2005, I was part of a group of artists who founded the Chattanooga art group SEED, based in a desire to spark contemporary art practice in Chattanooga. We presented the first two video art shows in Chattanooga, Polymer and Polymer2 at the Hunter Museum of American Art as well as several gallery exhibitions and discussions. In 2009 we presented BIN, an exhibition of art groups and collectives including Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), Temporary Services (Chicago), and 6+.
SEED is either at an end or on hiatus, for multiple reasons. For me, this is mostly related to the issues we discuss in "Lost South" the article mentioned above (under "Art Work").
image by jessica westbrook
He holds a MFA in Electronic Visualization from the University of Illinois Chicago and a BFA in painting and sculpture from the University of Central Florida, where he studied under sculptor Johann Eyfells. His work has been featured nationally and internationally including The Grey Market and Anthology Film Archives, NYC; Pleasure Dome, Toronto; Workspaces Ltd., San Francisco, CA; The Hyde Park Center, Chicago, IL; and festivals in France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Korea, and Russia.
He is also working with Philadelphia’s Basekamp to expand the education outreach of Plausible Artworlds, a collaborative initiative that aims to provide a platform for examining and accompanying the emergence of plural artistic environments.
Trowbridge is an Adjunct Professor with the Photo and Media Art program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]