DuBois' installation, Hindsight is Always 20/20, premiers with Dialog: City in Denver, Colorado 2008. Working with the American Presidency Project, Dubois collected and examined the history of State of the Union addresses. Employing a computer program developed by Dubois, Hindsight organizes each word in each individual Presidential State of the Union address by repetition of use. From which, he creates a hierarchy that ranks the frequency of times a word was delivered in each address. The results are displayed as Snellen Eye Charts, of which there will be forty-one exhibited in the courtyard of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Each freestanding light-box represents every President who has delivered an address, re-presenting U.S. History through the analysis of language, used and consumed.
In DuBois' past work Play the faces of every Playboy centerfold from 1953-2005 are presented in chronological order in under a minute, revealing society's ideals of beauty throughout Playboy's inception. Dubois' reframing of both history and popular culture provides viewers the opportunity to critically examine the constructs of mass media through the compression of time.
DuBois exhibits with bitforms gallery, New York, NY. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's Computer Music Center and at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. He is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite, and works as a composer, artist, and performer.
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