The Spook™ Experiment
Still from the Spook™ 90 second trailer, © armstead 2005
About the Spook™ Experiment
In the summer of 1781, James Armistead Lafayette was the sneakiest man in America. By providing intelligence, James succeeded in liberating our insurgent forefathers from the British Empire.
Spook™ is a multimedia installation project based on James’ true story as a double agent for America’s first Director of Central Intelligence, George Washington.
About the Artist
Kenseth Armstead’s multimedia works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. His works are in
private and public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the African American Museum, Dallas. Armstead is an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has earned a
Pollock-Krasner Award, NYFA video fellowship, NYSCA individual Artist Grant (film/video,) a Creative Capital Grant and a Bronx Council on the Arts Digital Matrix Commission. Armstead has been an
artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, the Castle Tebesice in Prague and numerous other arts institutions.
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