( 2021 ) HD video, running time: 4'58"
A collaboration between Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Courtney Stephens. The piece uses Soviet archival footage to imagine a future institution who resurrects a fallen planet through the magic of cinema.
( 2021 ) HD video, running time: 3’20”
A single channel music video for the piece, UTM 39N, exploring the aesthetics of the P. Pinea tree.
(2020) Celestial data visualizations for feature-length documentary film, Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know (director: Peter Galison, Collapsar Films)
( 2020 ) music video for Byron Westbrook’s “Grey Canyon Echo.” running time: 1’34”
( 2000/2013/2019 ) site-determined sound installation composed of audio feedback. running time: 92 min.
( 2018 ) 4K video projection, running time: 20 min.
A geospatial documentary that critiques the NASA “night lights” dataset and reveals locations with lights and no people, and locations with populations living in the dark
(2011/2016) mixed media, running time: 12 min.
An experimental land use map employing agent-based modeling and evolutionary programming to exploit the blind spots in an aerial surveillance system.
( 2011 ) 8K panoramic video, running time: 25 min.
An immersive data documentary about the globalization of the art market
(2008 / 2015) 360° panoramic video, running time: 45 min.
a geospatial documentary about global migration and its causes.
2015
Cartographic animations for feature-length documentary film, ‘Containment’ (dir. Peter Galison + Robb Moss)
( 2013 ) HD video, running time: 22 min.
A cartographic study of the geography produced by Chicago O’Hare’s invisible surface of flight traffic regulation.
( 2012 ) 4 channel HD video, running time: 5 min.
A graphic documentary that deconstructs canonical cartographic representational techniques
( 2014 ) HD video, running time: 59 sec.
An experimental short manually exploring additive color techniques of visualizing multispectral satellite imagery
( 2010 ) mixed media
experimental map of nineteen global vineyards rendered with a combination of representational and non-representational media
( 2010 ) HD video, running time: 12 min.
A data documentary about the globalization of the wine industry