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Working with and nurturing eccentric public spaces, my research highlights free culture and public display. Attending to themes at the crossroads of consciousness and social conditions, meta-physics and science, my practice investigates perceptual phenomena, language, and animal-human relations. Employing a wide range of media and distribution strategies, I intend to contribute meaningfully to the cultural landscape.

Current major projects include “Day Tripper”, a multi-city psychogeographic work that maps cities according to the experience of natural and artificial light; “Phantasm”, a semi-permanent public art commission in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in part in collaboration with the UCDavis Veterinary Ophthalmology Service; and the upcoming “All Matter is Smart”, a street facing window project for the UICA (Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts) in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and “Everything is Beautiful”, an exterior wall project for Barbara Bestor Architecture in Los Angeles, California.

I am an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

beckman@arts.ucsb.edu

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