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Exquisite Corpus


Human representation beyond the bias of the outer skin. ML blended radiology scans a multiple individuals as chimeric interior forms.
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Exhibited
Ars Electronica, 2022
Tokyo Private, 2022
ESCH2022 : AI & Art, 2022

Upcoming
Digital Nature Group & xDiversity at Miraikan, 2022

Microbiospheric Engineeering


Remapping the skin biome to populate a micro world. Proximal automata monitor the growth while drawing attention to the resource extraction of industrial machinery on our own planet.

Exhibited
Siggraph Asia, 2021


A Thousand Hungry Eyes

An e-paper stereoscope pans through blended archival erotic imagery to trace the origins of modern VR through those whose labors, frequently integral to new developments in technoscience, are historically and presently ignored and erased.

Made in dialogue with Gabriella Garcia
Decoding Stigma

Exhibited
Poetics of Obsolescence, 2022

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Abstand Halten
Exploration of personal space as sonified diffusion rotary music box
On Spatial Relations

Exhibited
Ars Electronica Festival, 2021

Performed
Imaginary Network Topologies, 2021
Frequency Fridays, 2021


Imagined Devices and Protocols for Micro/Nano Material Manufacture

Machine-learning produced documents provide a machine's-eyed imagination of their own creation in text documents and imagined figures
Made in affiliation with the ENAS Fraunhofer Institute for display at Ars Electronica
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Exhibited
Ars Electronica Center, 2021
ENAS Fraunhofer Institute, 2021

Extensions of the Self

Existence within a digital realm using virtual reality to present to participants a view of their immersed selves through each others eyes.
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Transpositional Reality

Supported by the Rubys Arts Awards

Exhibited
Gallery 4, 2020


Radiant Flux

light and surface manifolds
Reactive tessalation & light-casted recursions
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Exhibited
Artscape, 2019
Brilliant Baltimore, 2019
Gallery 4, 2020

Phases in Architecture
To make apparent the architectural effects of environments through reflections on surrounding walls and the phasing and interference artifacts produced upon the projected frequencies.
Accoustics & Architecture
Topologies

Inner structure of object manifold

Who's Watching
An interactive immersive critique of surveillance society in which participants simultaneously undertake the rolls of viewer and viewed.

Participants in each of two locations are surrounded by projections of those in the other while opening themselves to further data collection and biometric cataloguing.
Made possible through the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund.

On Surveillance


Universal Content

Galactic formations from the cracks in a screen reflect on shrinking interactions with the universe in existence beyond it's borders.

(Motion || Dissolution)

Only constant interaction gives form and connection. Momentary rest only dissolves the digital self.

Serve Yourself

Guests dine at a table mapped with geometric forms and manipulated video of themselves

Centrifuge

Glowing rolling lines && scientific hardware Research Expansion

Urban Fragmentation

Crystaline forms on urban detritus

Installation
Janet & Walter Sondheim Semifinalist Exhibition 2018; Baltimore, US

On Aging Structures

Intersections

merging : diverging paths from two cities

Digital Cascade

Interactive installation
surveillance vs. privacy

flashing images of showering individuals, digitally destroyed
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Thought & Distraction

New Memphis

Vignettes of a dystopian future in a isolated city where a wealth based on electricity is centralized.

Installation
ZONES Arts Fair; Miami, US
Barbarella; Daegu, SK


Celestial I & II

Interactive pair exploring celestial bodies

Installation
GUISE at Maryland Art Place; Baltimore, US