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After a residency at the Banff Centre (2003), I began really exploring games as a vehicle. This culminated in a series of stand up arcade systems that were funded by the AFA and exhibited: 2007: Exhibition: Endgame, Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB  2006: Exhibition: Dowsing for Failure, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC 2005: VanCleef’s Dead End, Trap/Door Gallery, Lethbridge, AB  

As an art student in the 90s, I balanced my output between silkscreen and short video. The distribution challenges were unique to the time, and these videos were sometimes exhibited as loops, which I'd create by exporting video via parallel port to a VHS machine.  Here's a video that was exhibited in Lethbridge and Calgary, called Fear Commandos. Perhaps a predecessor to the "React" videos on youtube and Twitch today.     a

Towards the end of my arts program I began enjoying humor, which was a scarce commodity in most fine arts spaces. This video is a good example of my work at the time, where the title and the punchline don't take long to come together.