IRiSs Lab # 1: Integrated Ruptures in Sensory spaces You Even Called Me Friend:
13th Annual Symposium of Art (Music Hall: Sackville, NB),
October 25, 2008 Open jam from 12:00-3:00pm Public Performance from 4:00-5:00pm

An audio and visual improvisation environment with media artists working with laptops, contact mics, tape loops, film and video projectors, prisms, mirrors, etc. The lab will be followed by a public performance. Participating artists from Halifax and Sackville.

IRiSs Lab # 3: Chasing the Ghosts of Architecture
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival North Street Church: Halifax, NS,
10:00pm April 3, 2009

IRiSs Lab #3 will build on traces of past lived histories in disappearing architectures, landscapes and the human form within them. “IRiSs” stands for “Integrated Ruptures in Sensory Spaces”, and the goal of the IRiSs Lab is to create non-linear improvisational work that abandons the standard, white screen at the front of the black cinematic box, while striving to build site specific work in which projected images and sound interact with the entirety of the architecture and history of the presentation venue.

IRiSs Lab #7: mined machine dreams
Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival 
North Street Church: 7:00pm April 17, 2010

IRiSs Lab #7 presents an experiential cinematic experience, utilizing the science and mystery of stroboscopic light theory and the Sufi inspired Dream Machine design patterns of artist Brion Gysin. This revolutionary kaleidoscopic cyclone will involve the live manipulation of projected images through the use of prisms, mirrors, and lenses as well as live sonic interpolations from the audience and the architectural space around them. Images of psychiatric experiments and counter culture recreational activities of the 1960s will float, flutter, and flicker throughout the space as the research technicians monitor their audience test subjects.

WARNING: STROBOSCOPIC EFFECTS MAY INDUCE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES IN APPROXIMATELY 1/14000 SUBJECTS. SUBJECTS MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE SOME BENEFITS.