Creative Endeavors
My background is in conceptual and visual art and new media. Working across art, design, software, and experimental storytelling, my work explores themes of rituals, cosmos, touch, and measuring the intangible.
The 3D surface of Mars, CNC milled and vacuum formed into plastic lights. Meditations of alien sunsets.
Escape Velocity: Installation that recreates the experience of flying over an alien landscape
Mars
Boarding Pass [with Jerod Rivera]
Boarding Pass [with Jerod Rivera]
Retrofuturist museum display – Imagining the ritual processing of drinking water for two lovers in a water-starved LA landscape.
River water collector
Purifying Station
With Chris O'Leary
Interactive water "shrine" in a dry river bed.
FOUR GRAVITIES: Interactive display on two low-res "jumbotron" screens, flanking the entrance of the Culver Center in Riverside. Featured flocking airplanes, trees growing fruit, abstract visuals, and space graphics that would react when users crossed the threshold.
Machines That Almost Fall Over: Capturing and repeating the tension of near-collapse.
Measure of Discontent: Foot Tap Amplifier
Measure of Discontent: Foot Tap Amplifier
Measure of Discontent: Sigh Collector
This machine ripped my bed covers off
I like studying the hand movements of people engaging with interactive art.
Moon Theater (Detail)
Moon Theater: Playhouse [with Nova Jiang]
Getting Lost in Singapore
Dessert Tryptic (video still)
Generative fuzzball/planetoid – Made with code
Machine that tries to draw circles
Inner Forrest: Interactive display that grows trees off of you
Quick test of flocking behavior in Processing