Image Title Excerpt Artists Year
Shape Games
 Shape Games Shape Games is a film about play, abstraction, and enchantment.
Extra Medium | John Muse: Everything Must Go!
 Extra Medium | John Muse: Everything Must Go! Near the conclusion of Extra Medium | John Muse, all the work on the walls and many, many unframed works were given to anyone who was willing to participate in a raffle.
Extra Medium | John Muse
 Extra Medium | John Muse Extra Medium | John Muse, an exhibition curated by Homay King and mounted at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College
Red Boat Crossing
 Red Boat Crossing Forgotten contents in a steamer trunk reveal mysteries aboard a Red Cross hospital ship during the Allied invasion of Southern France.
Book Report: an Essay for Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage
 Book Report: an Essay for Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage A brief essay commissioned by the Wattis Institute for the book Is Now the Time for Joyous Rage, a tribute to artist Lorraine O’Grady.
Cover Art for Matt O'Hare's album Shiloh
 Cover Art for Matt O’Hare’s album Shiloh In 2021, John accepted a commission to design a cover for Matt O’Hare’s album Shiloh. ,
A Radical Thread
 A Radical Thread In the face of wildfire, mining and logging, a radical back-to-the-land community in the Sierra Foothills races to collectively stitch 50 years of innovative sustainability into an epic 100-foot tapestry, one tiny stitch at a time.
Performance Films for PAS | Video Pop-Up
 Performance Films for PAS | Video Pop-Up John has often engaged with the PAS | Video Pop-Up, an open call via the PAS Instagram for 15 second videos in response to a theme. ,
Works on Paper
 Works on Paper Ongoing series of cut-paper paintings, collages, and other works on paper. , , , , , , , , , ,
Quote Unquote
 Quote Unquote This short experimental film was made in response to Pitzer College Professor Ming-Yuen S. Ma‘s project This is not a reading / Ceci n’est pas une lecture, a series of remixes and conversations inspired by sound.
Vase
 Vase Filling and falling, suburbia.
Orbits/Madaahra
 Orbits/Madaahra Orbits/Madaarha was “inspired by planetariums, proliferating communications networks, and linguistic confusions” and played on the Salesforce Tower every night from Midnight to 1AM. ,
giroscopio
 giroscopio giroscopio is a short experimental film by two artists, one in Pennsylvania and one in Puerto Rico, each in pandemic lockdown, each disoriented. / giroscopio es un cortometraje experimental de dos artistas, uno en Pensilvania y otro en Puerto Rico, cada uno en confinamiento por la pandemia, cada uno desorientado. ,
alive
 alive The death that happens to others, the death that is in you already, the life that is in this death.
dicing aka "how to"
 dicing aka “how to” This film made in response to a short instructional video, How to Dice a Red Onion. The cohort for DocuLab 2021, For With and Against the Camera, called itself The Raw Red Onions.
the imprecise measure of one thing
 the imprecise measure of one thing the imprecise measure of one thing begins as I assemble a board that is the exact width of the room. I then push this board slowly from one end of the room to the other, removing obstacles as I go and/or lifting the board over obstacles when necessary—including members of the audience.
American Breakfast
 American Breakfast Boots, a shovel, a box of Lucky Charms.
Duet
 Duet Illness, treatment, recovery, conversation. This experimental short presents stories of disfunction, bringing together but also separating two performers, their stories, their bodies.
Logo Design for International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP)
 Logo Design for International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) A logo for International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
Momentary Sense
 Momentary Sense Momentary Sense is a commissioned installation that explores the permeable border between life and death. Created in conjunction with palliative care physician BJ Miller and inspired by his Ted Talk & JCC conversation, “Death as a Part of Life.” ,
Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome
 Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome Journeys Beyond the Cosmodrome is an expanded film project with photographs, video and stories that was created with teenagers aging out of Kazakhstan’s Akkol Bolshoi orphanage into challenging and uncertain futures.
Don Draper reading Frank O'Hara
 Book Report Book Report combines short sequences of Mad Men‘s Don Draper reading books, relevant facts about the 2016 presidential campaign, a history of the hashtag #trumpbookreport, notes on a payment to the mysteriously named “Draper Sterling” ad agency—and a choral voice-over that reinterprets the infamous Access Hollywood transcript. 
Good and Bad
 Good and Bad A short film about glitter.
The Narrator's Predicament
 The Narrator’s Predicament Pamela Z narration outtakes from two films.
The Exquisite Corpse of Anonymous
 The Exquisite Corpse of Anonymous In collaboration with artists Laurie Wigham and Vanessa Marsh, a project for The Exquisite Corpse of the Unknown Veteran. , ,
See For Yourself: Collaboration with Carmen Papalia
 See For Yourself: Collaboration with Carmen Papalia In early 2015 Carmen Papalia asked John Muse to contribute a text to his project See For Yourself, a new work commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland for Marking Blind,an exhibition curated by Amanda Cachia. ,
Protocol
 Protocol Not six inches from her studio window Jeanne Finley watched and recorded a pair of Hummingbirds as they built their nest in an exquisite rouge bougainvillea.
And the Winner Is Nick Kahn
 And the Winner Is Nick Kahn And the Winner is Nick Kahn, an exhibition co-curated with Matthew Callinan, investigated competition, cooperation, and community through a series of artist residencies, curricular interventions, and a massive skee-ball tournament involving all members of the Haverford community: students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Temporary Structure
 Temporary Structure Temporary Structure, an exhibition mounted at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, consists of three works by Finley+Muse that document and archive the construction of memorial sites.
Three Works: Carmen Papalia in Collaboration with John Muse
 Three Works: Carmen Papalia in Collaboration with John Muse Muse provided three brief descriptions of artworks to Carmen Papalia, who used them to create an artwork of his own. ,
Fat Chance: the Work-in-Progress Installation
 Fat Chance: the Work-in-Progress Installation In 2006, Mel Day and Jeanne C. Finley were artists-in-residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts when they both filmed a sailboat named Fat Chance that had grounded on Rodeo Beach.
Falsework: Travel Bugs
 Falsework: Travel Bugs the Geocaching Travel Bugs that are part of Falsework.
Falsework
 Falsework Falsework explores the visual disparity between a cemetery’s fragile, illusive graves, and the massive structure that protects them to examine the dynamic relationship between humans, their pets, and this site.
Fat Chance: the Film
 Fat Chance: the Film Two fathers and three boys were celebrating high school graduation by sailing from San Francisco to Portland in their boat, Fat Chance. Thirty-five miles off the coast of Point Reyes, they were hit by a rogue wave.
Imperfect City / Imperfect State
 Imperfect City / Imperfect State Imperfect City / Imperfect State is a media installation and web-based social practice project that archives roadside memorials in the state of Delaware.
The Ardmore Cairn
 The Ardmore Cairn Since the fall of 2011, John Muse, following the lead of Wynnewood PA resident Ed Basner and a few others, has built and tended a few small cairns, one at the corner of Ardmore and Lancaster Avenues in Ardmore, PA, one between the lots separating the IHOP and Tired Hands Brewery, and another at the Bryn Mawr Train Station. , , , , , , , , , ,
Threshold
 Threshold Threshold brings together voices from the Threshold Choir—an a cappella group trained to sing at bedside in hospice and palliative care—with the voices of residents at Palo Alto’s Lytton Gardens senior community.
Cover Art for Little Big League's self-titled 7-inch single
 Cover Art for Little Big League’s self-titled 7-inch single Muse supplied the front and back cover art for Little Big League’s self-titled 7-inch single.
The Napoleon Room
 The Napoleon Room The Napoleon Room is a site-specific projection work by Jeanne C. Finley created In collaboration with Mrs. Cecily B. Finley and Annette Kobak. 
Manhole 452: the Installation
 Manhole 452: the Installation Manhole 452 is a first person narrative that follows the reflections of a middle-aged man whose car was hit by an exploding manhole; he now rides the Geary Limited bus the length of Geary Street to his job fitting prosthetic limbs.
among friends
 among friends Organized by John Muse while he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Haverford College, among friends, his 2009 symposium project, presented a sprawling series of four simultaneous, collaborative week-long workshops that teamed social practice and performance artists with Haverford students.
Field Guide: Markus Baenziger, curated by John Muse
 Field Guide: Markus Baenziger, curated by John Muse Using plastic resins, found objects, and various casting and carving techniques, artist Markus Baenziger invents floridly beautiful flora that often merge with or emerge from technological debris. Field Guide, Baenziger’s first exhibition at Haverford College, maps his ecologies of cultured waste and natural hybridity, inviting viewers to reconsider the troubles and wonders of our contemporary landscape.
Manhole 452: the Film
 Manhole 452: the Film This film follows the reflections of a middle-aged man whose car was hit by an exploding manhole. He now rides the Geary Limited bus the length of Geary Street to his job fitting prosthetic limbs.
Cover art for Judith Butler's Psychic Life of Power
 Cover art for Judith Butler’s Psychic Life of Power John Muse supplied a work on paper to Judith Butler for the cover of her Butler’s 1997 book, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection.
Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under Satellites
 Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under Satellites Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under Satellites explores different ways of keeping time and moving through space by presenting the wanderings of legendary historical figures from Ridgefield, Sarah Bishop and the Leatherman. The paths of these figures are traced by the artists through the use of multi-channel video projection, sculptural elements, and geocaching, an online, GPS-driven treasure hunt.
Cover art for Judith Butler's Undoing Gender
 Cover art for Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender

John supplied a work on paper for the cover of Judith Butler’s 2003 book, Undoing Gender.
Imaginative Feats Literally Presented: Three Fables for Projection
 Imaginative Feats Literally Presented: Three Fables for Projection Imaginative Feats Literally Presented: Three Fables for Projection, an exhibition created for Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, brought together Guarded, Flat Land, and Lost, three installation works by Finley+Muse that explore the visual culture of America’s many contemporary wars.
Flat Land
 Flat Land Flat Land explores the visual culture of men and women at war by looking at publicly available images of Flat Daddies (two-dimensional life-size cut-outs of soldiers that are carried through daily activities by families and friends back home), and Flat Stanleys (small two-dimensional cut-outs of a cartoon boy, sent by American school children on adventures around the world, sometimes even to war-zones).
Based on a Story
 Based on a Story Based on a Story explores the widely-publicized encounter between Jewish Cantor, Michael Weisser, his wife Julie, and Nebraska’s former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, Larry Trapp.
Testing Testing
 Testing Testing TDAR [Temporary Department for Academic Research], as part of its month-long Academic Aesthetic Breakout Session at PIFAS [Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Studies], invited John Muse to facilitate a discussion-workshop on “the test” as aesthetic object-experience.  He presented a brief lecture and then administered a test on testing to the event’s 30 attendees.
Winery Lake: May 30th, 12:00am to 11:59pm
 Winery Lake: May 30th, 12:00am to 11:59pm Winery Lake: May 30th, 12:00am to 11:59pm is a site-specific media installation made for the di Rosa Preserve in Napa, California. 
Inchoate
 Inchoate Inchoate, an exhibition at The Patricia Sweetow Gallery, celebrated the California College of the Arts centennial with 5 media artists and one painter, all of whom explore the boundaries of political, social and personal space.
Lost
 Lost Lost combines a segment of an audio diary by Chaplin Major Eric Olson with a single evolving shot of a former military base where dense fog obscures and reveals details of the landscape.
Clockwork
 Clockwork Clockwork is a series of four short multi-channel video works, each shot in a location where physical touch between individuals is routine yet highly charged: a dentist’s office, a hair salon, a massage therapist’s studio, and a teenage boys’ slumber party.
Catapult
 Catapult Installed in a former military base across the street from the last Nike Missile site, Catapult uses immersive video projection to present the human body as both a weapon and a target. 
Jovial Tales for Tragic Sensibilities: a Retrospective of the Work of Jeanne C. Finley + John Muse
 Jovial Tales for Tragic Sensibilities: a Retrospective of the Work of Jeanne C. Finley + John Muse Originating at New Langton Arts, Jovial Tales is a survey of a collaboration between the two artists that began in 1989.
Trial of Harmony and Invention: Spring
 Trial of Harmony and Invention: Spring Trial of Harmony and Invention: Spring, an installation project for New Langton Arts, places viewers at the intersection of vanity and transgression, exploring fashion’s uncanny allure.
Guarded
 Guarded Guarded evokes the eerie sense that the most important events occur behind your back, threatening a catastrophe made more ominous by efforts to prepare for it.
Voci
 Voci Voci [Voices] is a full-evening, multimedia performance work by Pamela Z that explores the sonic, cultural, physical, and artistic worlds of the voice, celebrating the broad range of colours in the singing voice and speaking voice, and examining scientific and cultural phenomena around the voice and the many metaphors for voi
The Life and Age of Woman
 The Life and Age of Woman The Life and Age of Woman is a video projection work originally created for the street window of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
Language Lessons
 Language Lessons Language Lessons entwines the search for the fountain of youth with the dream of a common language.
Wing and a Prayer
 Wing and a Prayer Wing and a Prayer explores the creative tension between destruction, decay, and feats of preservation.
The House of Drafts/ Dom Promaha
 The House of Drafts/ Dom Promaha House of Drafts/ Dom Promaha, a project by Finley and Lynne Sachs, is a virtual apartment building inhabited by the imaginary characters created by eight Bosnian and two American media artists.
Gaijin
 Gaijin Gaijin is a full evening interdisciplinary performance work by Pamela Z utilizing voice, processors, samples, BodySynth™, and Butoh dancers Kinji Hayashi, Leigh Evans, and Shinichi Momo Koga, and video projection by Finley+Muse.
Trial of Harmony and Invention: Winter
 Trial of Harmony and Invention: Winter Projected images of planes, butterflies, and altimeters reflecting off of a rotating disco ball, multiply and swirl across the walls.
Loss Prevention
 Loss Prevention Loss Prevention combines documentary and fictional elements to tell the story of Irene, who was arrested at the age of 79 for stealing a bottle of aspirin from a Miami Wal-Mart and sentenced to ten weeks of Senior Citizen Shoplifting Prevention School.
The Adventures of Blacky
 The Adventures of Blacky The Adventures of Blacky is an installation work based on a series of drawings of a family of dogs used as a projective test in the 1950’s.
Against a Single Match, The Darkness Flinches
 Against a Single Match, The Darkness Flinches Against a Single Match, The Darkness Flinches, a slide projection work and mixed-media installation, makes vivid the world of a young boy who, after reading in the National Enquirer that aliens were coming, gets up in the middle of the night, packs a lunch and goes out into the backyard to wait for their arrival.
O Night Without Objects, A Trilogy
 O Night Without Objects, A Trilogy O Night Without Objects, A Trilogy explores the relationship of conversion experiences—therapeutic, political and religious—to technology, fear and family. 
Xerox PARC Residency and Collaboration
 Xerox PARC Residency and Collaboration The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center [PARC] awarded Finley+Muse a PARC Artist in Residency [PAIR] in 1995, pairing them with members of their Work Practice & Technology area.  WPT, a small group of anthropologists and computer scientists, Lucy Suchman, Randy Trigg, Jeanette Blomberg, and Susan Newman, studied work and the practices by which workers take up technologies in creative and unpredictable ways. 
Time Bomb
 Time Bomb Time Bomb tells the story of a young girl’s experience at a Baptist retreat where a game called ‘time bomb’ becomes the measure of her desire to accept Jesus into her life.
Conversations Across the Bosphorus
 Conversations Across the Bosphorus Conversations Across the Bosphorus intertwines the narratives of two Muslim women from Istanbul: Gokcen and Mine.
A.R.M. Around Moscow
 A.R.M. Around Moscow A.R.M. Around Moscow documents the American dating service A.R.M. (American-Russian Matchmaking).
Drawings and Paintings, Maurice Blanchot's The Unavowable Community
 Drawings and Paintings, Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community served as the ground for a set of drawings completed over several months. The drawings remain bound in the book.
The Training of a Fragile Memory
 The Training of a Fragile Memory The Training of a Fragile Memory explores how words and pictures serve as the glue, the mystification, the validation of seemingly contradictory points of view and create the matrix for personal and public experience.  ,
Involuntary Conversion
 Involuntary Conversion This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from “double-speak” language found in a variety of media sources.
Nomads at the 25 Door
 Nomads at the 25 Door Nomads at the 25 Door explores memory’s construction of an ephemeral homeland when a concrete one is lost, stolen, or left behind.
Which Man Runs, Which Man Sits Still at Home?
 Which Man Runs, Which Man Sits Still at Home? Which Man Runs, Which Man Sits Still at Home? was produced by Dunja Blazevic at T.V. Belgrade as a segment in the monthly cultural program, T.V. Galleria.
A Theater of Small Gestures
 A Theater of Small Gestures Using photographs, video, text and shoe laths in a window display on Belgrade’s busiest pedestrian street, A Theater of Small Gestures explores interior and exterior spaces of Yugoslavia amidst an impending civil war.
At the Museum: A Pilgrimage of Vanquished Objects
 At the Museum: A Pilgrimage of Vanquished Objects At the Museum: A Pilgrimage of Vanquished Objects, produced during an Artist-In-Residence at the Oakland Museum, explores how all types of archiving, including documentary filmmaking, inevitably construct history from the artifacts collected.
So, You Want to be Popular?
 So, You Want to be Popular? Through the memory of a high-school classmate, footage from a film for teenagers entitled, Be Popular!, a video dating tape, and performances by recent political and entertainment characters, So, You Want to be Popular? investigates how cultural structures determine an individual sense of acceptance and self-worth. 
Accidental Confessions
 Accidental Confessions Accidental Confessions combines scenes from a demolition derby event with statements taken from automobile insurance claims.
Common Mistakes
 Common Mistakes Common Mistakes uses the four synonyms of the word mistake (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held “truths” that have later proven to be misconceptions.
Risks of Individual Actions
 Risks of Individual Actions Risks of Individual Actions is based on the findings of the medical team I.S. Cohen and B.L. Lee who have determined how much life expectancy is lost due to various actions: a calorie-rich dessert results in 50 minutes off your life expectancy whereas being an unmarried male cuts your life expectancy by almost 10 years. 
Beyond the Times Foreseen
 Beyond the Times Foreseen Beyond the Times Foreseen presents the ideal marriage as defined in the 1950’s and then reveals how the failure of that ideal affected some of the baby boom generation through various types of abuse.
Deaf Dogs Can Hear
 Deaf Dogs Can Hear Deaf Dogs Can Hear is a true autobiographical story that traces the tragic, yet humorous episodes of
the artist as a young girl and her pet Chihuahua
I Saw Jesus in a Tortilla
 I Saw Jesus in a Tortilla I Saw Jesus in a Tortilla is comprised of dissolving still photographs and a simple narrative taken verbatim from a newspaper article in The Arizona Daily Star.