JOSHUA DUMAS

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.

In 36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013-2022), Sarah Cameron Sunde stands in a tidal bay for a full tidal cycle as water engulfs her body and then reveals it again. The 12 hour video documentation is scored 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.

A weekly 30 minute livestream broadcast by Joshua Dumas featuring art, poetry, awe, activism, jokes, and ambient music. Produced from July-October 2020.

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

Washed up and in a post-solar-storm, Dages Juvelier Keates and Erin Cairns Cella as E/D dance a place turned into a repetition compulsion. Score: Jascha Narveson. Text: Dages Juvelier Keates. Lights: David Glista. Video projections: Joshua Dumas.

Peaks is an ongoing, cumulative video work in which Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas reuse the detritus of the built environment to construct brief cinematic moments suggesting iconic mountainous vastness.

A condensed and reworked version of Joshua Dumas’ score for a work-in-progress performance of Sarah Cameron Sunde and Joshua Dumas’ 36 PEAKS at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

A dance film conceived by and starring Elizabeth June Bergman. Directed, filmed, and edited by Kaitlyn Busbee. Directorial assistance from Mark Stastny. Music by Joshua Dumas.

A multidisciplinary collaborative dancefilm exploring ritual, repetition, shape, and space.

Chicago Avenue Moon is a responsive, generative music app that uses a set of variables including date, time, phase of the moon, and GPS location, to determine how its music unfolds, in real-time.

A guided meditation and expanded cinema event. Amateur and industrial films from Chicago Film Archives, edited by Christy LeMaster, come alive through a three projector performance with words by Mairead Case and Ed Crouse, and music by Joshua Dumas.

2014 independent feature film directed by Jerzy Rose, written by Rose and Halle Butler, staring Mike Lopez, Lyra Hill, and Ted Tremper with music by Joshua Dumas.

Some mornings, when I am very lucky, I get to start my day at the piano. I’d been writing these small rough sketches that sort of feel like nocturnes, but since I work early, I’m calling them matinals.

Stop-motion animated short explores the stalled domestic relationship of a dysfunctional couple. Written, directed by Jeremy Bessoff. Music by Keith Kusterer, Joshua Dumas.

A multichannel sound-and-video installation that explores the history of flooding in Iowa City.

In Jerzy Rose’s first feature film, a university has found Amelia Earhart remains while a science teacher travels to the underworld. Written and directed by Jerzy Rose. Music by Joshua Dumas.

The City in Which is an expanded cinema project based on Chicago poet Li-Young Lee’s “The City In Which I Love You”.

Experimental stop motion animation employs vintage plastic cowboys and construction paper sets to explore masculinity in the Old West. Directed by Jeremy Bessoff. Music by Joshua Dumas, Keith Kusterer, Tom McGettrick, Tom Santiago and Sally Timms.