HELLO!
I wish my website would update itself depending on my mood. Or based on who is reading it? Too bad!
If you're here, you may want to know things about me. So:
I am an artist/person who makes experiences in many formats including but not limited to: performances, software, virtual worlds, workshops, animation, websites, ill-defined forms, technology experiments, words, bad jokes...
In most of what I do, I try to figure out what a technology (broadly speaking) does or might do, and use it to communicate something I’ve been researching, noticing, or experiencing.
Things that interest me are: the relationship between large systems and personal experience, the impact of emerging media, communication, embodiment, perception, worlds, ecosystems, poetry, kindness.
Sometimes I just make things to connect to someone: maybe you, maybe myself.
WHAT ELSE?
I am from Los Angeles (the valley!) 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, and different 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. Obviously, there are more details, but how much time do you have?
I value change, laughter, flexibility, creativity, connection, critical thinking, and apparently being extremeley cheesy.
Things I am involved with: collabs More&More Unlimited and is this THING on?, 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 was once the artist behind Apple’s [AR]T Lab, co-creating an augmented reality art workshop that ran at all Apple stores around the world, and have done other high-profile creative experimentations with emerging technologies with places like Adobe and Bell Labs.
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 or book a virtual studio visit.
IDK, I am open to feedback.