I make stuff. I like to think as hard as I can about what I would like to see in the world, and then make that happen. This usually requires a fluid correspondence between worlds and teams, and that’s how I like it.
As an artist, I make works that refine human bandwidth, either by expanding it to reach new spectra, or by focusing it in new ways. Often these works are designed to function in other experimental or speculative capacities, augmenting spaces with useful behaviors or holding a weird-mirror to your online personae. This is the space where I will also go by AKA, or AKA MEDIA SYSTEM.
As a professional, I work with small excellent teams, often at the state of the art, to make the right product happen. This role has taken many shapes and titles over the years, from leading the critical and hardware research efforts at the New York Times R&D Lab to building a Fab Lab at a NASA facility. For the last five years I’ve focused exclusively on working with established artists on large-scale installations and experiments. See my consulting work here
At my happiest, I’m learning something new. It’s important for me to be able to prototype full ideas, which means I can be found at any part of the stack, wherever I’ll make the best impact. I studied video/new media art at Harvard and received my Master’s at the MIT Media Lab. At MIT I worked in the Hyperinstruments group on locative media art, performance robotics, rapid prototyping, interface design, and CNC systems.
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LITTLE DETAILS
- I use github, youtube, vimeo, bluesky, and more services that I have forgotten about.
- Since 2014 I’ve been turning bowls out of reclaimed wood on my mini-lathe, and now I make furniture using only hand tools, usually in the tradition of Shaker or other 18th/19th century craftspeople. I also build CNC machines and closed-loop fermentation, incubation, and hydroponics systems from time to time.
- I am not on facebook or instagram and never have been. Only in the last few years has this proven vexing in terms of finding new clients and showing artwork, but I am stubborn and will probably continue to resist.
- I am trying to be a thoughtful and compassionate person who does as little harm as possible in the world; I do not always succeed but will keep trying. I believe pretty strongly that all we have in the world is where we point our attention, where we shine our beam.
- For the last 5+ years I have convened a monthly Brooklyn meetup of people who work in weird art/tech domains - if you’d like to hear about the next weirdtech meetup sign up –> here.
- I live in Brooklyn. Before Brooklyn, I lived in Massachusetts; before that, New Hampshire; before that, South Florida; before that, Canada; before that, England; before that, Ecuador; before that, Ohio; before that, Illinois; before that, I was still dead.