Drayton Hiers

After more than a year of neglect (I tell you, grad school will do that to you), I have returned my attentions to my website, and I’m happy to tell you… I’m getting a new one!
Over the next few months, I’ll be working on a new, fancy site, which will feature audio and video from [...]

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The Work Office, “a multi-disciplinary art project disguised as an employment agency,” has been getting a lot of great press in the past few weeks. TWO hired me to Start a New American Tradition by offering my cell phone minutes to the people of New York, a venture that didn’t go quite as well [...]

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Are you running low on talk time?  Routinely going over your monthly minutes? Putting off important calls until nights and weekends kick in?  Let me be of service.
In conjunction with The Work Office, a modern day WPA initiative, I’m offering you a phone call on me.  Next week, I will be stationing myself in Brooklyn [...]

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My friend Shailoh Phillips made this beautiful film - though she prefers the term audio visual poem - for Studio 1824 a few weeks back. You can read more about the project, or just enjoy the poem.

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Eyebeam just launched their new and super awesome website today.  (Please read that hyperlink in the appropriate snotty, 80’s kid tone of voice.)  As part of the re-launch, I’m now on the Staff page, with my rabbit ear photo and my new (and super awesome?) bio:
Drayton Hiers is a writer, director and designer fascinated by [...]

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A few weeks ago, I Twittered the following:
Something strange has happened.  Being rejected by Yale has made me feel better about myself, rather than worse.  I can’t explain this.
Which is actually true.  In some ways, applying to graduate school is like going to the Olympics.  Some people win the gold medal, and other are just [...]

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Christina, Dan and I are were pleased to have the opportunity to present the Video Womb once again at Eyebeam, this time for the Holiday Hackshop.  We added a new element to the mix - live video manipulation and free play - and I got behind the wheels of the mixing board (so to speak) [...]

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So after a lot of hard work and some restless nights, Video Womb was unveiled this past Saturday at Eyebeam’s MIXER underground. David Jimison and his crew put a lot of energy and creativity into this one-of-a-kind event, and the result was spectacular: a giant maze, rat tunnels, dancing lizards, glam rock bands and art, [...]

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Find out at Underground, November 8 at Eyebeam.

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