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Heart of Burning Man 2007
Interactive Installation
Burning Man, 2007
The Heart of Burning Man Project is an interactive installation at Burning Man that allowed participants to interactively transmit their own heartbeat to a LED-neon heart sculpture located in the Burning Man.
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You x 360
Interactive Installation
Burning Man, 2006
YOU x 360 docments the incredible people, outfits, and
wearable art of Burning Man. Participants walk
away not only with a printed record of themselves but
all the materials to make an animated flipbook to share
with others.
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Ghost Lightning
Interactive Installation and Performance
Lisa Sette Gallery, 2003
Ghost Lightning provides a shadowy glimpse into the life giving and taking power of light, energy, and the pathways that conduct them. Enter a space where the electrical system of the earth meets the body and the residual energy of the past meets the present.
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Sonic Qi
Interactive Performance
Lisa Sette Gallery, 2002
Sonic Qi reveals the invisible flow of energy within the body known as Qi (chi). Using accupuncture needles and customized circuitry, changes in energy flow are detected and, distint pre-recorded samples/sounds are triggered and heard during the one hour performance.
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Sustained
Interactive Installation and Performance
Lisa Sette Gallery, 2001
Sustained centers around the creation of a natural but strangely bizarre ecosystem which is sustained and controlled by the vital systems of the human body.
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Inner Thunder
Performance
CrashArts Ice House, 1995
Deep Creek Arts School, Telluride, CO
, 1996
Penn State University Performative Sites Conference, 2000
Inner Thunder was a collaborative body drumming performance where the Cooper's body is transformed into an analog and digital instrument played by Bill Brauckman, Eric Zang, and with Todd Ingalls.
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Underwater
Installation and Performance
Arizona State University Art Museum, 1998
Underwater, is an installation and performance where Cooper is submerged underwater inside a burned tree breathing only through small air pockets which are refilled by air bubbles released with each heartbeat of his body.
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The Bardo
Installation and Performance
Arizona State University and Lisa Sette Gallery, 1996
The installation explored the space of the "Bardo" where life and death are fleeting. In this space, stories from heart patients and surgeons filled the room, along with live interactive stories about life and death experiences, the gentle sound of rain, and silence. The audio, video, mechanics, lights, computer monitors, and rain within the gallery were controlled and driven by the pulse of Cooper's heart.
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Thundervolt 1994
Interactive Installation and Performance
Deep Creek School, 1994
Thundervolt, performed at the Deep Creek School, Telluride, CO in 1994, involved a connection between the electrical system of the body and the electrical system of the earth.
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Paseure
Installation
Kansas City Art Institute, CSPS Gallery, Cedar Valley Nature Center, 1992-1995
Paseure, on-going living installation, evolved over a period of three years and was shown at a variety of venues. Read the Paseure Passages for an indepth look at the behind the scenes thoughts of the project.
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Agrippa
Installation and Live Internet Event
Kansas City Art Institute, 1992
Agrippa (a book of the dead) was an internet event and installation hosted at the Kansas City Art Institute revolving around the work Agrippa, a collaboration between author William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh, and publisher Kevin Begos.
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Hayman
Performance
1992 - present
Hayman is a performance that simply involves being an anonymous foreign figure in the midst of a typical environment. The best way to be anonymous of course is to dress up in a complete layer of hay.
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