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Digital video, 1:30 2013 Nothing lasts forever.
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Digital images loop on digital picture frame 2012 This sculpture utilizes the digital picture frame as subject matter and as an animated video format. Images of the frame repeat until a tunnel is formed.
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High-definition video loop, monitor, installed in a decorative fireplace 2012 This high-definition video of a fake fire in a fake fireplace was created as a site-specific work for the exhibit "Warm" at the Lease Agreement gallery in Baltimore, MD.
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Live-projected video set design for opera 2012 A project-video set design, performed live for the opera Pasticcio Furioso. Directed by Phillip Collister and performed by Towson University's Music Department, this opera featured a video set designed by Ryan Murray and Phil Davis, with additional video by Sean Hannan. Ryan Murray performed the projected video mix live.
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Simple Gifts - Appalachian Spring Digital Video, 3:27 2011 This video is a section of a larger collaborative video piece; each segment of the larger piece was made by a different video artist. The entire work was created as a projected-video accompaniment to a live performance of Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring". The project was a collaboration between students and faculty of the Towson University Electronic Media & Film and Music departments.
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A Broadcast Called Life Digital Video, 10:40 2010 This garbled broadcast is mistakenly interpreted as an anthropological study of a single species, suggesting a peculiar and complex anatomical structure and reproductive practice. The visual chaos of the corrupted digital data becomes sensual as the sexual tension between David Attenborough and Oprah Winfrey comes to a head. This work was created for Suzie Silver and Encyclopedia Destructica's Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality collection.
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What Does It Mean To Be Human? Found on and cropped from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Human Origins webpage, this image suggests that we live in philosophically concise times.
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Balsam of Life An attempt is made to redeem the power of the lava lamp by bottling its magical fluids as the Balsam of Life. Things get messy. This documents the performance that created the Balsam of Life sculptural artifact, which can be seen on the sculpture page.
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Portal Machinima and video art combine in this video projection portal. A spinning, shifting portal created from manipulated footage of a video-game fantasy world. When displayed, this piece is projected directly on a wall, with the image about 7 feet tall (the size of a door).
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Vanish A mentor/wizard character speaks his last words before succumbing, vanishing, and sending the viewer on their quest. | |||||
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Five Years The eschatology of the Mayans, Terrence McKenna, and David Bowie come together in the performance of "Five Years" on the date exactly five years before the predicted end of the world.
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Bathrobe Druid Relearns the Lost Art of Sanctifying Sites Bathrobe Druid, a self-discovering and self-undermining cleric, intuits his way through a ritual that he is inventing as he is implementing.
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Ryan Murray, infinipus@gmail.com Curriculum Vitae | Artist Statement
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