I’m On Your Side Guys
shot with Nikon D3100, with thanks to Campo Verde and Thad.
still building
we presented “still building” at the UCIRA “State of the Arts” conference at UC San Diego in November. Documentation follows: The building collective, based in Santa Cruz, CA, aims to transform the physical spaces that we occupy by playing games, engaging in conversations, going on walks, and drinking coffee. Our installation for the UCIRA State of the Arts Conference […]
October 7th at UCSC
A short article I wrote for http://ucsota.wordpress.com/ about events in Santa Cruz in conjunction with the international day of actions in defense of public education. Santa Cruz, Ca. 10/7/10 Students, workers, faculty and community members came together today, at UC Santa Cruz’s Bay Tree Plaza, to voice opposition to privatization, fee hikes and pay cuts. […]
Zero1 2010: Social Cost Tracker
Just finished a major installation at San Jose’s Zero1 biennial. Under Prof. Sharon Daniel, myself, Lyés Belhocine and Drew Detweiler designed and constructed a multi-channel video installation for gathering the knowledge and opinions of participants about the social and environmental costs of the clothing that they choose to wear. Ipad programming by Pheonix Toews. in […]
MFA Thesis
building: a critical spatial practice (right click to download) building was a site-attuned participatory art installation and artists’ collective convened in associationwith completion of the DANM MFA program by Kyle McKinley and Nick Lally. In producing an installation space that replaces traditional, individuated norms of production in the visual arts with a de-centered dialogic model, building offered McKinley […]
Francis Alÿs and the Loss of the Object
Some notes on conceptual artists Francis Alÿs’s “Paradox of Praxis I” and its relationship to a project of mine titled “bicilogues.” Circa 2009, for Christina Mc Phee’s graduate course in writing for artists (DANM 202). Read or download here: I Lose Myself in Bicilogues, I Lose Myself in Mexico City: Bicilogues in Dialogue with the […]
building
installation, critical spatial practices, participatory projects, software, performances Things That Are Possible, Digital Arts Research Center (Santa Cruz), 2010 building is an art collective, installation, and series of interventions by Kyle McKinley and Nick Lally with Ann Altstatt, Karl Baumann, Pou Dimitrijevich, Theresa Enright, Miki Foster, Nik Hanselmann, Jessy Lancaster, Madeline McDonald Lane, Lucas McGranaham, […]
bike-a-logues: the podcast
bike-a-logues podcast Bike-a-logues is an ongoing exploration of what it means for cyclists to be in dialogue about the things they think about while cycling through particular spaces and places. As installed in building, participants cooperate to pedal stationary bikes in order to listen to excerpts of interviews with friends of mine about how their […]