Projects
SPEC-FLIC uses cutting edge transmission and display forms to expand a critical dialogue (begun in science fiction literature and cinema) about the social effects
of these very forms. Live ambient performances streamed through mobile video platforms are "mixed" and projected on public architecture to produce a new form of
cinematic experience.
ActiveCampus EXPLORATION
Wireless Community Networks (2002-present)
Producer/Director, Artistic Director of ActiveCampus Research Project. (William Griswold, lead P.I.)
Wireless Community Networks (2002-present)
Producer/Director, Artistic Director of ActiveCampus Research Project. (William Griswold, lead P.I.)
The ActiveCampus project aims to provide location-based services for educational networks and understand how such systems are used. Activeclass enables collaboration
between students and professors by serving as a visual moderator for classroom interaction. ActiveCampus Explorer uses a person's context, like location, to help engage
them in campus life.
DESKTOP THEATER
Internet Street Theater (1997-2002)
Co-Creator (w/Lisa Brenneis), director, producer, performer, graphic designer, programmer
Internet Street Theater (1997-2002)
Co-Creator (w/Lisa Brenneis), director, producer, performer, graphic designer, programmer
Created with Lisa Brenneis over 5 years, Desktop Theater was an early experiment in networked performance. Along with the Desktop Theater Troupe, we created more than
40 live and "doubly-live" web-based performances, including "waitingforgodot.com" and the 3 act, 11 person, 4 time zone production "Santaman's Harvest."
MAUVE DESERT: A CD-ROM Translation
Interactive Narrative (1992-1997).
Eng/Fr/Sp, Shifting Horizons Productions Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Programmer, Designer
Interactive Narrative (1992-1997).
Eng/Fr/Sp, Shifting Horizons Productions Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Programmer, Designer
Mauve Desert is a CD-ROM translation of the novel "le Desert mauve" by Nicole Brossard. This interactive narrative seduces its drivers to trace the path
of Melanie as she drives her mother's car through the desert and into the lives of the author, the translator, and the artist.
EL NAFTAZTECA
(58:00, 1994-95) Live Interactive Television
Director (1994), Editor of Distributed version (1995)
(58:00, 1994-95) Live Interactive Television
Director (1994), Editor of Distributed version (1995)
Interrupting the nightly news in an act of guerrilla television, Gomez-Pena returns to the persona of a Chicano-Aztec veejay - "The Mexican who talks back,
the illegal Mexican performance artist with access to state of the art technologia" - to elaborate the complications of American identity. With guest performances
by Roberto Sifuentes and Ruben Martinez.
SCREAMBOX was an LA dyke 'zine committed to experimentation, confrontation and titillation. Part of the early nineties queer 'zine cultural moment, SCREAMBOX had three
rad issues before it became a victim of its own success. With contributions by Ingin Kim, Alice Hom, Laurel Beckman, Amy Bragdon, Catherine Opie, and others.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A YAM &
A SWEET POTATO?
Experimental Video Short (6:00, 1991)
Director, Co-Creator (w/J.Evan Dunlap)
A SWEET POTATO?
Experimental Video Short (6:00, 1991)
Director, Co-Creator (w/J.Evan Dunlap)
Commissioned by artist Shu Lea Cheag for her video porn project "Those Fluttering Objects of Desire" the tape portrays one couple's take on interracial desire.
The Director of Photography is acclaimed contemporary photographer Catherine Opie.
DEEP DISH TV
Public Access Satellite Network (1985-present)
Founding Producer (1985-87), Co-Producer
"That's Woman's Work!!!" w/ Martha Wallner
Public Access Satellite Network (1985-present)
Founding Producer (1985-87), Co-Producer
"That's Woman's Work!!!" w/ Martha Wallner
Deep Dish TV is the first national grassroots satellite network, linking local access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and other
individuals who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network. The program "That's Woman's Work!!!" was one of the first 10 hours of programming
offered by the network.
PAPER TIGER TV
Television Series (1981-present)
Collective Member, Distribution Coordinator (1985-90)
Television Series (1981-present)
Collective Member, Distribution Coordinator (1985-90)
Paper Tiger Television is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. PTTV programs analyze and critique issues involving media, culture and politics.
The shows feature scholars, community activists, critics and journalists addressing the ideological assumptions and social meanings of mainstream media and
exploring alternative communications sources and structures.









