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The Economic Survival Rite of Passage is a performance ecology—conceptualized, composed, written, and directed by Andruid Kerne—for 12 musicians, 4 actors, and 4 dancers.

Coded Messages: CHAINS was a site-specific performance ecology created by master drummer Francis Kofi, Andruid Kerne, Mel Lang, and an ensemble of Ghanaian dancers and drummers for the Pan-African Theater Festival (PANAFEST) in 1994.

Playas: Homeland Mirage is an interactive installation situated in a faux living room, with overstuffed chair and game console. The game, built with the Torque game engine, looks like a first-person shooter. The player is left to ironicially figure out that, unlike the characters, they have no guns.

Censor Chair is an interactive installation that ironically uses data from physiological sensors to trigger images and sounds evoking experiences of fear of censorship.

Kerne, A., Wakkary, R., Nack, F., Steggell, A., Jaimes, A., Candan, K.S., Del Bimbo, A., Jennings, P., Dulic, A. Connecting artists and scientists in multimedia research, Proc ACM Multimedia 2008, 1113. https://doi.org/10.1145/1459359.1459589

Kerne, A., doing interface ecology: the practice of metadisciplinarity, Proc SIGGRAPH Art and Animation 2005, 181-185 [20%]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1086057.1086144

Kerne, A., Interface Ecosystem, the Fundamental Unit of Information Age Ecology. Proc SIGGRAPH 2002: Art and Animation, 142-145 [19%]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2931127.2931200

Jeremijenko, N., Schiphorst, T., Matteas, M., Strauss, W., Wright, W., Kerne, A., Extending interface practice: an ecosystem approach. Proc SIGGRAPH 2002: Abstracts & Applications, 90-91 [19%]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1242073.1242122

Additional sound work variously composed, field recorded, and post-produced by Andruid Kerne.