JOSHUA DUMAS

A presidential term is 1461 days long. I have made a promise for every day. I intend to keep these promises throughout the current administration’s term. The project presents these promises randomly in sound and text.

A ten minute dance film by Rebecca Fitton. A satirical take on the presence of democracy’s performance in her work as a “dance maker.” Dance, diagram, audio description and sound layer in a machine-processed edit. Video/sound glitch code by Joshua Dumas.

A series of data corrupted portraits of U.S. Senators detailing the career campaign dollars they’ve received from the gun lobby. Minted as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain.

A series of five 20 second digital videos with sound, built from extensive research that link the major weapons manufacturers with the largest Department of Defense contracts to over 28,000 civilian casualties during the Global War on Terror (2001-2021).

A series of 75 second glitch video portraits of movement artists created during the covid lockdowns.

A dance film by Fannie Hungerford & Joshua Dumas exploring elders, mothers, femme power, desire, death, and the mantra of the 64 Yoginis through dance, digital animation, and words.

An NFT gallery of glitch work exploring place through databending, data moshing, pixel sorting and artificial refraction.

Essay film by Eiren Caffall and Scott Foley that connects Caffall’s chronic kidney disease with sea-level rise. Music by Joshua Dumas.