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... the establishment of the experimental meditation center of los angeles, which sporadically hosts small, private gatherings to engage in a variety of experimental artist-led activities ...

... the subtle bodies series, an ongoing series of investigations featuring subtle, barely-noticed experiments in sound, movement, action, and energy within public spaces, led by artists, performers, choreographers, and sound artists ...

... the maintenance of and contribution to Upload .. Download .. Perform . net (http://uploaddownloadperform.net), an online wiki-repository for artists, composers, choreographers, et al, to share contemporary experimental performance scores (est. Oct 2008) ...

... artSpa, a sporadic public interface for art-and-then-somes - artists living double-lives as bodyworkers, yoga teachers, psychics, healers, and new age dabblers - involving artist-run walk-in clinics, workshops, experimental meditation groups, new age aesthetics panels, touchy-feely music events, and more, plus the creation of the artPlus list-serv (since May 2007) ...

... the collaborative, traveling experimental music & massage series, that combines traditional chair massage with "therapeutic" experimental music performances by local and visiting composer/performers ...

... the collaborative project Signify, Sanctify, Believe, with Tanya Rubbak and Claire Cronin, featuring the work and gentle, creative, temporary religious manifestations of many other artists, at the Church of Public Fiction (April-May 2011) ...

... the development of the Experimental Leadership Forum (ELF) with Elana Mann, featuring clinics and workshops for artists in topic areas generally only offered to professionals in the fields of law, mediation, diplomacy, community organizing, etc (Spring or Summer 2011) ...

... the publication of the bathroom and the sea, in collaboration with artist/designer Tanya Rubbak, featuring the work of over 40 artists (Summer/Fall 2011?) ...

... participation in Brody Condon's latest project, LevelFive, a 2-day Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) experience at the Hammer Museum exploring the dynamics of the self-actualization seminars of the 1970s, in collaboration with Nordic live action game designers Bjarke Pederson and Tobias Wrigstad ...

... an overnight Dream-In at the Hammer Museum (1-2 May 2010), involving artist-led workshops in various dream modalities, evening and morning concerts, dream re-enactments, and more ...

... a musical minimum festival at the wulf. in Los Angeles (28 Feb 2010), featuring minimal interpretations of experimental music & performance with indeterminate elements ...

... the production of an artSpa energy assessment for the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (Fall 2009, released 2010), in partnership with Machine Project during a year-long engagement at the Hammer; the assessment employed several artist-psychics, -intuitives, -channelers, -ghost-hunters, et al, in order to energetically map the institution, and to provide actionable suggestions for improving the energetic interface for all visitors, spirits, and museum administrators ...

... participation as a board member of the experimental music space, the wulf., and participation in group brainstorms for various projects with Machine Project. In addition, I was a board member of the gallery and project space Sea and Space Explorations in Highland Park (2008-2009), and on the advisory committee for the interdisciplinary body-based residency program Genesis Project LA (2007-2009) ...

... experimental music performances as part of the Dogstar Orchestra, an annual Summer festival at CalArts (June 2006-2010) ... participation in the Eternal Telethon (July 2010) ... performances of scores with Mark So at the Torrance Museum as part of Presence (June 2010) ... artSpa workshops for artists at FOCA as part of the exhibition Performing Economies (Summer 2009) ... experimental music & massage at LACE, as part of the Resonant Forms Festival of electronic music (April 2009) ... performances of several works at the John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium at UNM in Albuquerque (March-April 2009) ... participation in the ridiculously massive, one-day happening, A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA (LACMA, Nov 2008) ... participation in Elana Mann's election-based performance project, Exchange Rate: 2008 (Oct & Nov 2008) ... two days and one night of moonshot meditation, lunar warlock ritual, and spring tide syzygetics at artSpa Resort & artSpa atNight (Sea and Space Explorations, July 2008) ... as well as live performances in festivals and events in Beijing, Bergen, Berlin, and London (2004-present).

I'm an adjunct instructor covering a variety of subjects at colleges around Los Angeles; recent school and topics have included OTIS College of Art (performance art, sound art, electronics and superpowers), College of the Canyons (introductions to design and multimedia tools), Art Institute of California (computer programming and shell-scripting), and ITT Technical Institute (3D modeling, game design, project & portfolio development, etc). I have guest lectured/workshopped at UCSD, USC, OTIS, CCA, and Columbia College Hollywood.