HELLO!


I wish my website would update itself depending on my mood. Too bad!

If you're here, you may want to know things about me. So:

I am a person who makes experiences in many formats including XR, workshops, performances, installations, images, software, and words.

In most of what I do, I try to figure out what a technology (broadly speaking) does or might do, and use it to commmunicate something I’ve been researching, observing, or experiencing.

Things that interest me are: the relationship between large systems and personal experience, communication, embodiment, perception, worlds, ecosystems, poetry, kindness, mediation. 

Sometimes I make things to connect to someone, maybe you, maybe myself.

WHAT ELSE?


I am from Los Angeles and now live in New York. I grew up using chatrooms (a lot), obsessed with the internet and the way it connected me to a much bigger world. In 2007 I moved to the Bay Area to study poetry and ended up interested in media theory, with a particular focus on how real-time text-based communication (like texting) changes written expression, and more broadly how new technologies affect ways to connect with each other (for better or worse).

After spending lots of time with poets, making writing that experimented with (mis-)using new technologies (like autocorrect, real-time collaboration, web collage) I decided I wanted to learn how to work with computers in a deeper way. So, I moved to NYC, where I was introduced to all kinds of other ways of making things using (and still mis-using) software, hardware, and code and fell in love with interactivity as a medium. 

Recently, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be an artist. Maybe it means to be a lens. So I think it is also worth mentioning things that deeply shaped my worldview: the experience of growing as a misfit in my surroundings, with a father with early-onset dementia, and with a grandmother who survived concentration camps and came to the US from Greece with my mother as a displaced person.

I value change, laughter, acceptance, creativity, connection, critical thinking, and apparently being cheesey. 

Things I am involved with: the New Museum's cultural incubator, NEW INC (where I am a mentor), Future Space, ONX studio. I am an Asisstant Arts Professor at IMA/ITP at NYU, where I teach interactive media art.

I am also the artist behind Apple’s [AR]T Lab, co-creating an augmented reality art workshop that ran at all Apple stores around the world.

Do you need a more official sounding bio for some reason? Well don't worry, here it is.

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Do you want to get a better sense of what I do? Take a look at my projects page, it is not always up to date.

Do you want to work with me, or talk to me? Send me a message.