JAMES ROBERT SOUTHARD

Second untitled video from ongoing project

2011-12-20T19:08:00.001-08:00

Untitled video from ongoing project

2011-09-20T14:17:00.000-07:00

Field Stripers

2011-05-31T12:10:00.000-07:00

This video I made in May was exhibited at BYOB which took part in the 54th Venice Biennale at the Internet Pavilion.

The construction of The Inherent Pull #12

2010-06-20T16:11:00.000-07:00

People have been asked a few times to show how I create the images for The Inherent Pull.

Creating The Inherent Pull #12 from James Southard.

Happy National Louis Braille Appreciation Month!

2010-04-19T15:05:00.000-07:00

This it the billboard CMU had put up in pittsburgh.

The Inherent Pull Ad

2010-04-13T21:09:00.000-07:00

Commercial for The Inherent Pull

So I felt it was time to actually create a commercial for one of my shows. It was actually quite easy to do since I already had tons of material to work from and I did all the research needed in the past year.

Seats taken

2010-02-06T20:31:00.000-08:00

I was asked to intervene in a system and this is what I came up with. It stayed in the bathroom for almost a week before going missing.

publication from Contextual Practice

2009-10-01T20:54:00.000-07:00

This was the publication made from our spring semester of contextual practice at carnegie mellon.

Job Master

2009-08-01T20:19:00.000-07:00

@ Waffle Shop in Pittsburgh PA

@ Nachbar in Louisville, Ky

In 2009 Daniel Luchman and I created a game show performance called Jobmaster. The event was based that the rules were up to the participant and they were judged on the creativity of their solutions and not so much on their abilities to finish the games. We did three total.

Brightest spot in braddock

2009-05-01T20:28:00.000-07:00

This was a piece I did in Braddock Pennsylvania which is known for its depressed economy and lack of jobs. Most of the town is emptied and many of the buildings have become artist homes and galleries. I did this to try to show that there are bright places in Braddock.

Future Tenant Show

2009-04-02T20:15:00.000-07:00

An etching I did for the Future Tenant Show in Pittsburgh PA. It is a lazer etching into wood portraying the basic narrative of the popular 80s film, Ferris Bueller Day Off.

Bejeezus Magazine

2008-01-01T19:53:00.000-08:00

For a year or so I was the photo editor for bejeezus magazine. Just a couple images I enjoyed from those years.

Indebted prolonged

2007-11-01T20:07:00.000-07:00

These images are from the end of my Indebted project. I was interested in releasing the bison back into the wild, but I did not want to miss what would happen to it next. So i set up a motion capture camera to catch what animals would use it for. I got hundred of images, but these are a few.

In a dream I saw the body of my father walking through our backyard with a the bison head as his. I couldn't shake the dream so I do what I always do when something startles me. I build a piece out of it. I never used the image for anything, but I still hate to be rid of it.

Behind Indebted

2007-10-01T20:06:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of April Boyd

Finished image

April Boyd followed me to document the process it takes for me to construct one of my images for the Indebted series.

Weird Kentucky

2007-01-01T19:44:00.000-08:00

I was commissioned to photograph the images needed for the western half of Kentucky. It was a great road trip with some interesting photographs resulting from the long week. It was nice to see they used one of my photographs for the cover photo.

A seasonal walgreens

2006-02-02T19:48:00.000-08:00

Halloween

Christmas

Easter

Valentines Day

For one year I documented the seasonal isle of a Walgreens in Louisville, Ky.

Bill Green Studios

2006-01-02T19:37:00.000-08:00

This was a commission from Bill Green Studios. He wanted me to do a set of photos with his t-shirts. I dont know if he still uses the images, but I did enjoy doing the project.

Anderson Ranch Artist Center

2006-01-01T19:26:00.000-08:00

While attending Anderson Ranch Arts Center I built this space in response to my father in the final days of his life. I was trying to recreate our camping experience in a interior environment with shadows, motion and noise. It had the sound of rain falling on a tarp as well as the sway of the tree branch shadows above.