Art & Experiences
Art installations and experiences created by Daedalus Howell and Kary Hess.
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Nobo Coffee
Nobo Coffee was that rare conceptual art project that you could drink. Based in a conceptual café in a conceptual neighborhood. It’s brewed in a surrealist café in the “North Boulevard” area of our town, an arts district we contracted…
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Daedalus Howell wrote here.
“Daedalus Howell wrote here.” Installation. Engraved, 1″ x 3″ silver-colored, self-adhesive plastic nameplate, installed June 14, 2023, at La Dolce Vita Wine Lounge, Petaluma, California. 1 of 2. As part of my nascent “Places of Future Historic Relevance Project,” I…
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Le Drama Clüb
An Immersive Narrative Experience by Kary Hess and Daedalus Howell It’s a story of love, loss, leather and so many clove cigarettes against a backdrop of Reaganomics, the Berlin Wall, and the burgeoning AIDS epidemic. Into this tumult, Le Drama…
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Blank Book
Like many creative people, I’m attracted to the possibilities and promise of a handsome new notebook. I’ll scribble a few pages of the next Great American Novel then abandon the notebook, leaving the pages containing little more than writerly shame.…
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Lost and Found Pages
When I lived in Los Angeles, I would frequently discover stray screenplay pages littering the streets. I saved them all and with my ArtsID co-host Gretchen Giles, am pleased to present a staged reading of these pages, complete with cast…
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Meditation for Commuters
“I am Clover, that is my vision name. My totem animal is the skink. This is my podcast for mindful driving, ‘Meditation for Commuters.’ Episode One: Traffic. Take a few minutes of bliss to teach yourself how to meditate while driving.…
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Write or Drink
An Interactive Fiction Experiment. I built this game (really more of a brief experimental, interactive fiction of the choose-your-own-adventure variety) using Twine, which bills itself as an “open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.” The interface was intuitive and the…
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Airport Bar
Daedalus Howell & Kary Hess | Multimedia Installation & Performance | 2017 ‘Airport Bar’ Conceptual Art Experience Flouted Trump’s Travel Ban with Drinks & Drollity “Airport Bar invites the public to ‘acknowledge what it means to be trapped in the bureaucratic…
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Haunted Orthodontic Retainer
Inspired by The Significant Objects project and “Etsy witch” Malibu Ron, I attempt to create my own significant, if haunted, object via the power of story.
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Stairwell Video
Daedalus Howell & Kary Hess | Multimedia Installation & Performance | 2016 Stairwell Video recreated an 80s-era, VHS-only video store and invited participants to “rent” a video for the night – but the video can never be returned (the video…
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Lost Roomba
I once owned a Roomba, iRobot’s flagship robot vacuum technology, which would wander around my flat at random hours. One night, while sharing a bottle of wine with my (now) wife and collaborator, Kary Hess, it occurred to us that…
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