Built to simulate and quantify the fraught process of uncovering new ideas, Inquiry Machine is a web crawler and autonomously-curated collection of texts on the topic of labor. Visitors were invited to sift through a growing collection of printed literature and images and learn what machines think about work — or at least, what machines… Read more »

Aggregate Vision reimagines landscape photography liberated from the constraints of a fixed viewpoint and renaissance perspective. In its current incarnation, the work consists primarily of a tool for generating large-scale slit scan photographs from publicly available Street View data. Built with Node.js, React, and a reverse engineered API, the web application allows users to select… Read more »

Thousand Yard Stare is a series of panoramic photographs made with a custom robotic camera. A slit-scan process was used to capture photographs of unlimited length. Rather than making momentary snapshots, the camera captures a narrow vertical section of its field of view, several times a second while moving along a track. The resulting photographs… Read more »

Border Patrol is an extended meditation on the power of “impossible” computationally generated images to transform a human conception of space. The 12-hour long video documents a flight in Google Earth’s Flight Simulator mode along the border of the USA’s 48 contiguous states, beginning and ending just south of San Diego, CA. The video plays… Read more »

When drone warfare, omnipresent CCTV, and the subpoena of entire social graphs are commonplace, why should we need yet another surveillance camera? This work was realized in collaboration with my classmates Marcial Díaz Mejía, Anna Murveit, and Daniel Swain. In creating this work, we sought to challenge our college community to consider the rapid proliferation… Read more »

Silence, Full Stop, and Replace All are experimental browser extensions which make word-processor style formatting effects available during casual web browsing. “Full Stop” hides all semantic content on the page, revealing only punctuation and negative space. “Silence” also hides all content, instead showing only empty boxes where text or images would ordinarily appear. “Replace All” indiscriminately… Read more »

Vidgrid is an interactive video-based artwork built with Processing. It divides the frame of a live video feed into a series of smaller frames which update at irregular intervals with random colors superimposed. Vidgrid was originally shown as an installation at Whitman College in October 2010. It has now been ported to run on a… Read more »

Many of us already live in the realm of our own self-consciousness, wondering what it would be like to walk around with eyes in the back of our heads or to exist as a fly on the wall. When digital and physical spaces merge, our notions of identity and self-awareness change in unpredictable ways. This… Read more »

Queer AI is a neural network trained on erotic literature, feminist and queer theory, and an ethics of embodiment. Queer AI’s first implementation takes the form of a subversive chatbot which refuses to follow the gendered scripts that currently exist for disruptive cyborgs and subservient fembots. Queer AI imagines a future of many queer bots… Read more »