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Symbols, Signals, and Sigils

Symbols, Signals, and Sigils

artist book

A writing and speaking project taking up Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of perception and symbol in the context of media arts and magic practice.

#2025 #sigils, #writing, #research

difference's rainbow

media: real-time javascript code, real-time max/msp code, desktop computer, organza fabric sheets, projectors, speakers exhibitions: Anthropocene...

#2025 #projection, #processing, #perception, #writing, #installation, #sound

post tenebras lux

post tenebras lux

media: 20’ x 8’. Plywood, drywall paint, custom PCBs, microcontrollers, electric cabling, car speakers, wood, plastic, iridescent film, camouflage...

#2025 #installation, #responsive-media, #process, #sound, #magic, #whitehead, #gen, #daisy, #ecology

how to see in the dark

Essay for "How to See in the Dark", group show at Co-Prosperity in Bridgeport, Chicago IL. Including artists Eva Davidova, Dakota Gearhart,...

#2025 #essay, #writing, #magic, #process, #co-prosperity-sphere

Solar Winds

Solar Winds

artist book

Handbound artist book. First edition of 30. Risograph black and gold on 80lb paper. A (medium) B (medium) C (medium) D (medium) Spread corrected...

#2024 #sigils, #magic, #generative-art, #artist-book, #risograph

Alien Screamer Synth + Workshop

Alien Screamer Synth + Workshop

I designed PCBs based on a schematic design by Ray Wilson. The intention of the workshop was to introduce beginners to DIY synth-making with hands on...

I WANT AN AI FOR PRESIDENT

I WANT AN AI FOR PRESIDENT

“I Want an AI for President” is a new experimental live action role play (LARP) / immersive theater piece that dives into the complexities of...

#2024 #performance, #larp, #collaboration

Diagrammatic Media: Subjectivity — Ecology — Event

Media Arts and Sciences PhD Dissertation

I defended my practice-informed dissertation in December 2022. The committee consisted of mathematician and media arts researcher Sha Xin Wei (chair),...

#2020-22 #research, #dissertation, #media-theory, #ecology, #phd

SloMoCo

SloMoCo

a 9-month durational conference gathering, microresidency, and publication

SloMoCo is permanently archived by Movement and Computing. SloMoCo was a durational event-experiment sponsored by the MOCO (Movement and Computing)...

#2021 #movement-and-computing, #organizational-praxis, #speculative-design

Field Reports on the Institute for Imposters

A speculative media archeology of the Institute for Imposters. A videographic reflection on the psychic conditions of academic and professional life...

#2021 #video-art, #speculative-design, #workshop, #writing, #organizational-praxis

The Gift and the Ledger

The Gift and the Ledger

A workshop and installation exploring alternate economies through interactive movement environments and digital stills. The Gift and the Ledger by...

#2020 #alternate-economies, #workshop, #responsive-media, #collaboration, #performance

Neurodiverse Telematic Embodied Learning

Research/Practice Partnership with Neurodiverse Education Research Center

In 2020 I assembled a group of learning science PhDs to work begin research and experimentation in "at-home" learning environments. We...

#2020-2025 #research, #education, #collaboration, #neurodiversity, #technology, #pedagogy

Renao 热闹

Renao 热闹

Heat-and-noise, urban media installation

Renao is a collaborative media environment engaging the socioaesthetic quality of Renao (热闹) or ‘heat and noise’ as an element of urban livability and...

#2019 #cultural-geography, #writing, #responsive-media, #installation, #workshop, #speculative-design, #alternate-economies

Portacular Resonances

Portacular Resonances

Heat-and-noise, urban media installation

Heat-and-noise, urban media installation

#2019 #cultural-geography, #writing, #responsive-media, #installation, #workshop, #speculative-design, #alternate-economies

thermal economies

experiential responsive media research Portable heat-to-sound media systems (x5). Designed Raspberry Pi Zero W + AMG8833 thermal imaging device...

#2018 #alternative-economies, #responsive-media, #workshop

visible sketch

visible sketch

#2016 #installation, #responsive-media, #installation, #workshop, #sound, #collaboration, #performance, #technology, #new-materialism, #posthumanities, #dance, #embodiment

lanterns

lanterns

Lanterns is a digital-physical responsive light and multi-channel sound instrument I developed during my PhD to probe the dynamics of collaboration...

#2017-2019 #installation, #responsive-media, #installation, #workshop, #sound, #collaboration, #performance, #technology, #new-materialism, #posthumanities, #dance, #embodiment

PHuN [Post-human Network]

theory colletive

From 2016 to 2020 I co-organized the reading group and conference series PHuN (post-human network). The peer-reviewed conference invited keynotes...

HYPERGRACE

HYPERGRACE is my current live electronics performance project. The project blends ambient/drone stylings with granular and pulsar synthesis. I use a...

#2025-26 #experimental-music, #ambient, #live-processing, #gen, #spatialaudio

Cello + Electronics

Between 2014 and 2018, I performed extensively in improvisatory and semi-improvisatory settings with amplified cello live processed with electronics...

#2014-2018 #experimental-music, #ambient, #live-processing

GULCH

Gulch was a dark ambient improvisation trio based in Phoenix Arizona from 2015-2016. LINE UP Parker Davis: Guitar, Pedals Garrett Laroy Johnson:...

#2015-16 #experimental-music, #ensemble, #ambient, #live-processing

SSOO [something said only once]

experimental arts festival

In May 2015, digital fabricator and designer Matthew Briggs created the experimental arts and performance festival SSOO [something said only once] as...

LORKAS

Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State

From 2013 to 2015, I directed the student-led Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State. We created DIY and nomadic immersive media environments for the...