[Daniel McKernan : Bio]

DANIEL MCKERNAN:

THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHICAL SIDESHOW:
OFFICIAL BIO

Dannyboy Daniel McKernan is a New York based artist (though a native New Orleanian). His projections can be seen at Thighpaulsandra's and Black Sun Productions' live performances throughout Europe. He has mixed live video projections for Cyclobe's performance at the Donaufestival in Krems, Austria. He was part of Coil's only New York City performance in 2001.
His interactive video installation, Is Evolution Evil? featuring Amanda Lepore, was scored by Thighpaulsandra and released as an Enhanced-CD through Brainwashed's Handmade Series (HAND003); it features accompanying video & essay regarding gender, genetic art and plastic surgery.
In 2007, he & Richie Rennt curated a program called HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA for the MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Fest (which features works by Lee Adams, Ron Athey, Black Sun Productions, Terence Koh, Edward O'Dowd, Micki Pellerano, Breyer P-Orridge, Roberto Ratti, SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny), The Threshold HouseBoys Choir, and Todd Verow). It has since played at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, at OutFest in LA, and most recently at Visions of Excess as part of the Spill Festival in London on April 12, 2009. It will soon screen again in London (Saturday, 27 June 2009) at The Horse Hospital.
Daniel's newest video work, A Well Hung Monk in collaboration with Black Sun Productions, has been screened at MIX NYC 2008, at the Torino 24th Film Fest: From Sodom to Hollywood in Italy, and soon to be at TLV International LGBT Film Fest in Tel Aviv, Isreal.
His latest interactive video installation, The Magick H8-Ball featuring Sophia Lamar and programmed by Burle Avant, premiered at MIX NYC and then soonafter showed at the Westside Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. In April 2009, Daniel also co-curated and was part of the group show, One Night Stand, at Envoy Gallery, NYC.