Death and Data at Resonant Gallery

If you are near Grand Rapids, Michigan, check out the fantastic iteration of our Death and Data show on view at Resonant Gallery WMU-Grand Rapids, through Jan 23, 2026. Our video art cooperative, temp.files, curated this selection of videos and what a treat to have them shown in such a cool space. I’m screening Coordinate Metrology Systems (TF S1, 2021) and The Pig is Going Through the Pipeline (TF S4, 2025).

Explore 20 works on display from 15 artists:

Emily Brandt, @emilythebrandt        
Christine Cheung, @chcheungchcheung
Tusia Dabrowska, @tusiadabrowska
Eva Davidova, @evadavidovany
Leigh Davis, @leighdavisprojects
Kerry Downey, @kerrythat
Rah Eleh, @elehrah
Kara Hearn, @karaelisehearn
Nung-Hsin Hu, @nunghsin.hu
Michelle Levy, @lovymish
Jillian McDonald, @jillianmmcdonald
Sunita Prasad, @sunitadee
Benjamin Rosenthal, @n0t0ri0us_b.e.n
Rachel Stevens, @agent_stevens
Hanae Utamura, @hanae_utamura

Review of Video After Video in MFJ 82

Walking the Edge

Works on Water and friends walked the 520 miles of coastline (or as close as possible) of all the boroughs of New York City, from May through October, 2025. As a collaborator I made two walks, solo, and then joined a few folks for the final walk, along the Queens shoreline, ending in Little Neck. Walking The Edge was part of the Works on Water 2025 Triennial.

My first one was probably one of the easier walks — straight up the West Side of Manhattan, from about Lincoln Center to the Little Red Light House at the George Washington Bridge. It was a beautiful — though hot! — sunny day and people were enjoying themselves all along the way, from biking to fishing to picnicking. One woman was running the perimeter of Manhattan as her birthday celebration and a various friends were joining her at points along the way. The trickiest part was navigating the pathways crossing the freeway system on the way to the subway home.

The second walk, along the eastern shores of the Bronx, through the Throggsneck, Locust Point and Edgewater neighborhoods, was longer, more varied and totally fascinating. It was mostly residential, with a jaunt around the CUNY Maritime College (past a football game playing Frank Sinatra music at half time), and through two gated communities that I managed to talk myself into. One, on a hill facing south, had a narrow path connecting all the backyards, with spectacular views of both the Whitestone and Throgsneck bridges. I almost didn’t get out of this one, until a car came along and opened the gate. The other was right on the Long Island Sound, with walkways that reminded me of Sausalito, CA and seagrass waving in the water. As I walked further, past suburban mansions, and the afternoon turned into golden hour, the neighborhood became more obviously Catholic.

So grateful for the opportunity to explore these interstitial spaces where the water meets the land and people live, work and play at or avoid the water.

#climatechange #climateresilience #walkingtheedge #worksonwater #waterart #walking #psychogeography

Death & Data – screening at Vtape

Temp.files is so excited to be screening at Vtape in Toronto on Friday, September 19th. My new video The Pig is Going Through the Python—a meditation on corporate language—will be in the mix.

We’re misled by the momentary span of each individual life, and by technology’s attempt to reduce and define us. We live in conditions actively trying to annihilate populations, and rightly, we protest and resist, and we grieve from our depths. Death inspires fear and awe and heartbreak. It’s the most primal opening into a wildly unknowable place. The data of life, its scents of flesh and blood, and death, are encoded in and created by our bodies, experiences, and technologies. This data pulls us both toward an unknowable future and our most primal ancestral past, with its ancient taboos and drives. Our ephemeral bodies create, carry, filter, and interpret all knowable data, objects, time-codes and thought-forms. Data points us toward historic relics, impressions left by the dead, coded into hard drives, digital records, and the ever-expanding web. What is this afterbody, and how does it soften into the noise of all that is? Program runs approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Featured works:

from this side of space to the other side of the signal, Benjamin Rosenthal (2017, 9:53)
Menino Terrival, Eva Davidova (2025, 6:45)
Total Eclipse and the Heart, Jillian McDonald (2025, 10:00)
In the Atom, Hanae Utamura (2024, 9:02)
Prompt: Technofetishism, Rah Eleh (2025, 7:32)
across bodies, emily brandt (2024, 9:38)
In Search of Foreign Objects, Michelle Levy (2022, 5:49)
Passage, Christine Cheung (2025, 3:50)
Incurable Nostalgia, Nung-Hsin (2020, 3:17)
The Pig is Going Through the Python, Rachel Stevens (2025, 8:46)
Ashes, Ashes, Leigh Davis (2025, 5:33)
OAK, Tusia Dabrowska (2025, 9:49)

Co-presented by Vtape, temp. files Video Publishing Cooperative & Saloon Toronto

Temp.Files in Screenslate and Creatrix

In March Screenslate published An Interview with Temp. Files by Shelby Shaw on its sexy, newly redesigned site. Thanks Shelby for your thoughtful interview!

This month, Creatrix published a profile on us: TEMP. FILES ON RESIDING IN THE DIGITAL SPACE. So great to have our new experimental video coop out there in the world (in digital space!).

Visit us at temporaryfiles.net. This month check out Michelle Levy’s awesome video Scenes from an Apartment and read the interview with her conducted by temp.files member Emily Brandt. Come back for Tusia Dabrowska’s video and interview in July and Sunita Prasad’s in August.