Generators

Custom-built web apps, video, 2016.
In collaboration with Emily Martinez as Anxious to Make.

Description

Anxious to Make’s Generators are a series of custom-coded, online tools to help artists outsource and automate away their tasks -- such as coming up with new project ideas or finding new channels for artwork distribution -- to the so-called “sharing” economy. Examples of generators include a Project Generator, which generates thousands of different project permutations from a matrix of topics, materials, qualities, and sharing economy resources through which production can be outsourced; a Brand Generator, which creates an explosion of branded objects that artists can customize to promote their own brand identity; a Confidence Generator, which boosts confidence for artwork underway; and a Tough Love Generator, featuring a retired baseball coach giving the artist a tough love pep-talk.

Documentation

Access all of Anxious to Make’s Generators here >>

Exhibitions + Screenings

• “Carry On: Art + Architecture Faculty Triennial,” Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Mar 6 - Apr 13 2017.

• “YBCA Public Square: Investigations of Labor & Ecology,” YBCA, San Francisco, CA. April 16 2016. 

• “Side Gig: Anxious To Make,” B4BEL4B, Oakland, CA. Nov 19 - Dec 15 2016.

Press + Publications

Pervasive Labour Union, Special Issue #2,  pp. 57-61 | Centro De Cultura Digital | KQED Arts | East Bay Express