I’m an artist and technologist working with photography, bots, and language.
YIMBY stands for “Yes, in my Backyard.” A slogan of the urbanist movement and an implicit rejection of “NIMBYism,” YIMBY’s believe in solving problems by opening up their own neighborhoods and communities to new development. With this work I investigate the hidden environmental costs of the centripetal force that is urbanism. YIMBY moves outward, following… Read more »
For the launch of the Swiss Institute’s INSIGHT venture, I brought to life a design by the inimitable jesse.studio. Implementing the scrolling header text in pure CSS required a heavy dose of patience and thorough browser testing. But the result is butter-smooth and compatible across devices from IE10 to the latest iPhone. Roles Frontend Developer… Read more »
The Vectoral Imaging series explores the relationship between sites of resource use and their environment. Troubling the single-point view of traditional photography, these photo sculptures juxtapose multiple exposures from the surrounding area with topography of the landscape itself. The translucent glass plates are arranged relative to the topography and each other in the exact configuration… Read more »
I built a series of multi-camera imaging devices with the goal of bridging the gap between infrastructure and landscape. The devices hold 5-10 smartphone cameras and use a networked controller which can trigger an exposure by all cameras simultaneously. I used these devices at dams, mines, and oil fields to show the symbiotic relationship between… Read more »
Spatial Erratic investigates the uncomfortable interstice between nature and culture. The installation is comprised of a live-printing 3D model, computationally generated text and sculptural elements. Constructed by a frankensteinian machine, a plastic form emerges at the center of the room over the duration of the exhibition. With time, it is revealed to be a hybrid… Read more »
In Summer 2018 I took over maintenance and ongoing development for the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Foundation’s website and archive. Dedicated to Eve’s legacy as a poet, artist, literary critic and originator of queer theory, the website contains a public archive of her work. I was initially brought on to modernize the software project, making the… Read more »
Providing insurance for the California cannabis industry, Emergent offers individualized coverage and risk management. Working with Elbow’s talented design and identity team, I developed the website using the Hugo static site engine. Roles Frontend Developer Technologies Hugo (static site generator) Webpack HTML CSS
WestBook is a personalized, algorithmically-generated newspaper based on the recipient’s Facebook news feed. The intervention was originally staged at World Wide West 2017, where individualized daily newspapers were printed for 20 participants. In this rural, nearly off-the-grid environment, participants were encouraged to leave their phones off and consult WestBook as their primary news source. Using the… Read more »
If the phrase “fake news” is so versatile it can be used by The President of the United States, The New York Times and flat earth proponents alike, does it mean anything at all? #FakeNewsBot is an artificial intelligence that emits tweets calling out fakeness everywhere it can be found. Every time its flashing red button… Read more »
ShyBot is a desert-dwelling autonomous robot designed to avoid all contact with humans. Produced in collaboration with CODAME Art+Tech as Norma Jeane for the Desert X Biennial, this endearing bot was designed to endure harsh wilderness conditions and make navigational decisions based input from a variety of on-board sensors. When ShyBot detects the presence of moving, heat-emitting… Read more »
SourceClear builds security tools that fit effortlessly into a fast-paced Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment workflow. Their website needed a thorough revamp to communicate the unique innovative services they offer, and distinguish it from also-ran competitors. Working with a team of designers and illustrators from elbow, I wrote all front-end code for this carefully-crafted refresh of their corporate homepage. Roles Frontend… Read more »
Shyp, a startup famous for it’s door-to-door packaging and shipping service, is dedicated to providing dead-simple, efficient alternatives to traditional delivery services. They approached Junior looking for a website redesign that would communicate these values to customers using their new rate-comparison web app. While designs were being finalized, our dev team worked closely with their engineers to build a framework for the… Read more »
BFAMFAPHD.com is an interactive website, an installation, and a community of thinkers that wonder: How might we mobilize artists in the United States? According to the census, there are more artists than police officers, lawyers, or doctors in the United States. Reporting on the census in 2008, The New York Times noticed that “if all artists in America’s workforce banded together, their ranks would be… Read more »
The Walla Walla Foundry are casters of contemporary sculpture, working with leading artists such as Matthew Barney, Paul McCarthy, and Maya Lin to bring complex artworks from concept to completion. We worked together to assemble a website that showcases photographs of their ongoing projects as well as highlights from their archive, presenting visitors with a… Read more »
The Memory Observatory was an a brand activation and installation at SXSW for the launch of Kodak Alaris’s new Moments app. Moments aims to fill a gap left by digital technology – while we are able to record and share memories more easily than ever before, there’s scarcely time in our media-inundated lives for reflection and storytelling. The… Read more »
Virtual Reality promises to be the most influential web technology in a decade. But for the most part, it’s still a read-only experience. pocktVR lets anyone create and share interactive, 360-degree experiences that can be viewed with VR headsets like Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard. Users of the service can upload photo- and videospheres and annotate… Read more »
Parts Tracking is a web application developed to address unique information-sharing and archiving challenges for the Walla Walla Foundry. The company casts contemporary sculpture for the most technically ambitious artists in the world, so they routinely face unique production challenges on a hectic schedule. I helped them develop a digital workflow that embraces a chaotic work… Read more »
Actipedia is an open-access, user-generated database of creative activism. A collaboration between the Yes Men and the Center for Artistic Activism, the site is a place to read about, comment upon, and share experiences and examples of how activists and artists are using creative tactics and strategies to challenge power and offer visions of a… Read more »
Print Wikipedia is the entirety of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia compiled into printable books. For this ambitious artwork, interdisciplinary artist Michael Mandiberg wrote software that parses the entirety of the English-language Wikipedia database and programmatically lays out thousands of volumes, complete with covers, and then uploads them for print-on-demand. To make the contents of this gargantuan archive accessible, Michael provided me with… Read more »
A prolific activist and internet artist, Steve Lambert had 15 years of work and announcements archived on his previous WordPress website. My task was to make that work accessible, and fun to browse through. We settled on a responsive, infinite scrolling template as a starting point and I set about adapting it to mimic Steve’s… Read more »