CERN Couriers, 2010
Offset print

[left] Cover photograph: Artist-in-residence James Lee Byars brought some colour into the CERN corridors during the summer. He is photographed here on the ISR site with the experimental hall, l1, and water tower in the background.

[right] Cover photograph: Aftermath of the first experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva. Humankind and all traces of its cultural activities are obliterated, but the Standard Model of particle physics is successfully challenged.

A Colour-Coding of Partch's Ptolemy Keyboard Based on his Chromelodeon I, 2008
Inkjet print
48 x 60 inches

The arbitrary colour scheme used by the American composer Harry Partch for the Chromelodeon I, a microtonal keyboard he constructed in 1945, is transferred here to Partch's preliminary instrument, the Ptolemy. The only record of the Ptolemy is a black and white photo. This colour print represents one 'octave' (comprised of 43 distinct notes) of the Ptolemy keyboard as it might have appeared if given the same colour-coding as the Chromelodeon I. The Ptolemy was misplaced by Partch sometime in the 1940s.

Ptolemy Triptych, 2008
Inkjet print
36 x 81 inches

Source documents for the print 'A Colour-Coding of Partch's Ptolemy Keyboard Based on his Chromelodeon I'

Mobile Homes, 2006
Found photo

Newfoundland experienced a controversial period of Resettlement (1954-75) of many of its isolated communities to more centralized "growth centres". For three months in 2006, I performed fieldwork for the Maritime History Archive in search of photographs depicting this historic time by visiting communities throughout the province, digitizing images in family photo albums, and adding the photos to the MHA's digital database.

Castro's Library, 2005
Installation
University of Toronto Art Centre

An investigation of the Independent Library Movement in Cuba, including a newspaper, video documentary, library inventories and photographs.

Castro's Library, 2005
Installation
University of Toronto Art Centre

Castro's Library (Biblioteca Heberto Padilla), 2005
C-print
20 x 24 inches

Tecsun, 2005
Emergency radio with hand-crank, plaque
8 x 4 x 2 inches

Identical Chinese-made radio distributed in Cuba by the US Interests Section. The radio dial is said to have been soldered to the frequency of the Voice of America broadcast from Miami.

Tecsun, 2005
Detail

A Kind Jester, 2004
Video still

Rebuilding abandoned bikes in downtown Toronto.

A Kind Jester, 2004

Crumbs Are Also Bread, 2003
Site-specific installation
Stauffer Library, Queen's University, Kingston, ON

Collection of 'lost' books retrieved from the Canadian Literature section of Stauffer Library. By checking circulation cards in backs of books, texts not checked out of the library for more than 50 years but less than 100 were put on display in the library's main atrium.

Crumbs Are Also Bread, 2003
Site-specific installation
Stauffer Library, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.