Interactive performances with TangentLab collaborators Ben Chang, Silvia Ruzanka, Andrew Sempere, and Dmitri Strakovsky.

The Jackals were a nomadic band of technology scavengers who repurpose obsolete and discarded technologies to create enigmatic, absurd, and chaotic future inventions. A project of the TangentLab Collective, the Jackals are probably best described as a kind of guerilla hacker street theater. During an event, the Jackals invade and set up camp anywhere from a sidewalk to a museum to a convention center, bringing soldering irons and software. Scavenging obsolete technologies from public donations, thrift stores, and back alleys, the Jackals then set about repurposing this material for their own ends. All of this work is done in public, making the process as much the focus of the project as the finished objects. The process is both visible and open, designed to engage the public in the act of making.

2001-2003.
Presented at SIGGRAPH, Chicago MCA,
and Boston CyberArts Festival