My solo exhibition, Food Court, will be featured at UMASS Lowell’s University Gallery from Mar 1 – Apr 2, 2010. The show will consist of two interactive video installations / food stands battling for your media-starved attention: JeffuBurger and the brand new Il Jeffuria Pizza.
The opening reception is March 3, 3-5pm.
In September 2009, I traveled to Kaunas, Lithuania to present artwork at Kaunas Photo, the largest photo festival in the Baltic states. It was an incredible experience, and I have not taken the time to do it justice. Many thanks to all the people who helped make my trip enjoyable and unique, particularly festival director Mindaugas Kavaliauskas.
Breakfast on the Cereal Reef was mentioned in a couple blogs recently, based on my inclusion in Eat the Art at Bunker Hill Community College.
Food Art: ‘Eat the Art’ Group Exhibit at BHCC in Boston , Eat Me Daily, October 20, 2009
Breafast on the Cereal Reef, Cakehead Loves Evil, October 20, 2009
JeffuBurger was mentioned alongside 19 other pieces of very inspiring junk food art to celebrate National Junk Food Day:
20 Pieces of Junk Food Art, Listicles, July 21, 2009
Just some other great, delicious, ridiculous projects that make me chuckle:
The United Steaks of America, a brilliant project by Dominic Episcopo
The food diorama photos of Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida
Incredible Sushi Art and Amazing Food Art
And of course Bent Objects, the work of Terry Border
I recently auditioned for Bravo TV’s reality show Untitled Art Project. Unfortunately I didn’t make it to the next round, and I can’t reveal anything about the casting process (strict contract). But the press caught up to me before I became an official contestant, so here’s a few articles that may be of interest:
Greg Cook, “Our digital landscape,” Boston Phoenix, April 28, 2008
Review of Nourishment: New Work by Jeffu Warmouth and Ellen Wetmore
Warmouth’s video installation is a satiric face-off between McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken joints. You order off interactive computer menus that feature a mix of conceptual and absurdist gags. One restaurant prepares your order (which often seems to involve Warmouth dumping a bucket of chickenish stuff on his head) while the other heckles (that guy will put anything in his burgers). A serious-silly joke about fast food and conceptual art, it’s a hoot.
Cate McQuaid, “A Vegas Styling of the Scripture”, Boston Globe, April 22, 2009
Review of Nourishment: New Work by Jeffu Warmouth and Ellen Wetmore
Fun, interactive art
Puns, parodies, and jokes have always been Jeffu Warmouth’s mainstay. Warmouth’s interactive video installation brings the viewer into the middle of a fast-food war between “Jeffu Burger” and “JFC.” Life-size videos of Warmouth in uniform, ready to serve up the shakes and fries, stand at the ready as the viewer uses a touch screen to order. One or the other will prepare the meal, as his adversary complains. The food is crazy – one server dons onion-ring chain mail to protect himself from the slings and arrows of his business – but usually there’s sly social commentary at work. It’s a whopper of an installation.
I am currently featured in NOURISHMENT: New work by Jeffu Warmouth and Ellen Wetmore, an exhibition at the Art Institute of Boston, 700 Beacon Street near Kenmore Square, in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival. It’s free and open to the public, so please come see the show!
My contributions are JeffuBurger and JFC: competing fast-food franchises as room-sized interactive video installations. The show is high-tech, lo-fi, and slapstick — quite a spectacle.
(photo by Fred Levy)
If you live in the Boston area, please visit my solo exhibition
SPUDNIK and other stories by Jeffu!
March 25 – August 15, 2008
Gallery at Children’s Hospital Boston
300 Longwood Ave, Main Lobby
I’m working on a series of 3D photos of tabletop dioramas. So far they’re turning out well.
I’m working on this major website update using WordPress, a content management system typically used for blogs, but which is being used more and more to manage complex websites.