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@buechlerbot (2021)

AI-generated basketball cards, using an OpenAI Python library, Ruby OCR library, and NBA player names/nicknames scraped from basketball-reference.com. Posts daily using the Ruby twitter gem.

Indeed It Is Christmas (2020)

Built in partnership with Indeed.com employees, Indeed It Is Christmas used Ruby OCR libraries to analyze employee handwriting and artwork, producing personalized Christmas cards for residents of nursing homes across the 5 boroughs of NYC during the 2020 Christmas season.

360 BARKLEY (2020)

NBA text-insult bot, backed by stats scraped from basketball-reference.com. Will trash-talk any user-supplied professional basketball player, current as of 4/2020.

@free_as_in_freedom (2020)

Automated Craigslist Free AI bot: generates new Craigslist free posts using the gpt-2-simple package from @minimaxir. Trained on 10,000 posts scraped from the Craigslist Free section.

from not and, and so (2017)

Clown College House paint, spray paint, oil on OSB 3′x4′ 2017

Significant Other 3′x8′ House paint, spray paint, oil on OSB 2016

Triple Double 5′x5′ House paint, spray paint, oil on OSB 2016

MAD HANDLES: 11th Anniversary Edition (2016)

The original streetball comedy chapbook, available for purchase at amazon.com.

Summit of Sound (2015) music video, 8:49

Led and directed by Jon Mackey and Nate Treme, the youth participants in Renzi Education and Art Center's 2015 Summer Music Video Camp created a music video for the song "Summit of Sound"! The song was written by Renzi students in collaboration with Nate Treme. The kids learned about music video production, story telling, costume and prop-making and worked together to make some awesome special effects and bring the song to life!

Full video available on the Renzi Center’s official Youtube channel

You Don’t Even Know (2014) music video, 3:20

Led and directed by Jon Mackey, the youth participants in Renzi Education and Art Center's 2014 Summer Music Video Camp created a music video for local Hip Hop duo Blood Punch. The kids learned about music video production, story telling, costume and prop-making and worked together with the group to make some awesome special effects and bring the song to life!

Full video available on the Renzi Center’s official Youtube channel

Musical Greenhouse at Calanthean Canyon (2014)

Site-specific installation and performance utilizing pd, Arduino, laptop, reclaimed wood, and plants. Part of Unscene! Shreveport’s collaboration with New Orleans Airlift in the 2014 regional calendar of events.

Recap by N.O. Airlift here, and video of the performance available here and here.

from Holidays With Madge (2011)

Ship and Hair (found photograph) digital print from color slide Private Collection, Houston, TX

Festival (found photograph) digital print from color slide Private Collection, New Orleans, LA

Canyon Time (found photograph) digital print from color slide Private Collection

The Lion Ate My Food (2010) Digital recording

The Lion Ate My Food is a class project undertaken by 1st-5th graders in the Noise class at the Renzi Education & Art Center in Shreveport, LA. Students generated sounds from samples made in and around the Renzi campus filtered through a patch created by teacher Jon Mackey in audiomulch. Live performance by students via midi control, captured sometime in the late Fall of 2010.

Available for stream/purchase on bandcamp.

McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival: Sound and Space Experiments (2009, 2013)

Video installation and live performance. Archives from the 2009 installment of the biannual MSPSNMF on view here.

The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit/Rabbit Mystical Concept (2007) chapbook

The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit is a children’s short story by Clarice Lispector, here free-translated and illustrated in one volume, then machine-translated and re-illustrated in a companion volume.

Produced in an edition of 25 by the artist.

Copies available by request.