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Reconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous shower scene from Psycho using amateur and professional YouTube remakes. All 55 shots sourced from different YouTube remakes and recombined with the original sound to create Hitchcock’s literal death as an author. Part of the ongoing RECON project. Many thanks to JazJaz for featuring this on their blog. Re-cut in 2011.

“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.” (Alfred Hitchcock)

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Part of a series of works superimposing still images from Paris Hilton’s ‘bath’ video (which has commonly been labelled a ‘sex tape’) over top of classical paintings of women bathing. See more from this series. Many thanks to Meghan Dougherty for featuring these works on Tumblr.

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Part of a series of detournements of New Zealand political representations and propaganda leading up to the 2011 elections. See more.

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Part of a series of detournements of New Zealand political representations and propaganda leading up to the 2011 elections. See more.

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Part of a series of detournements of New Zealand political representations and propaganda leading up to the 2011 elections. See more.

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Two A1 collages using images of Britney Spears, made for Photochop III (curated by Markus McIntyre, Thistle Hall, 2011); “A collective exhibition of collage images from print using photo chop, scissors and glue… salut[ing] the dawn of photo lithography, the 120 year old tradition of processing images for the mass print medium.” My Britney collages were laminated and displayed on various doors around the gallery, in the way that a poster might appear in a teenage bedroom. The exhibition also featured work by Claire Harris, Will Frew, Robyn Kenealy, Ruby Nekk, Sam Stephens, Don Smith, Curtis Nixon and Di Dixon (among others).

On the opening night I also performed as Supercomposer for the first time (see below) alongside The Unknown Rockstar and The Doll, reproducing a number of my Britney Spears + Noise = HOT remixes in a live setting (and some other bits and pieces, including a HOT Jay-Z vs. Kevin Drumm mashup).

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“On this week at Thistle Hall is the biennial PhotoChop exhibition, centered around the art of collage… with a selection of fine works including repurposed postcards, a scenic Urewera setting for Willie Apiata and a couple of fine posters celebrating the golden years of Britney Spears.” (Wellingtonista, read more)

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What if philosophers had the same kind of promotion attached to their brands and concepts as other commodities in our culture? Bourdieu on a billboard? Irigaray in an infomercial? Kant in the classifieds?

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