Artist Statement
My work creates modes of interactivity not found in dominant forms of new media: subtle, slow, thoughtful; sometimes delightful, sometimes unsettling. It plays on our uneasy fascination with new technology, yet does not cynically deny us its magical and exhilarating qualities.
In essence, I am investigating the uncertain present of human and technological co-evolution – the overlappings of natural vs artificial, real vs simulated, person and machine.
I like to push intersections between art, design, architecture, and science. Their boundaries are blurring, and these fields can and should learn from each other. I develop my own interactive technology to create objects and spaces that are aware of their environment and can dynamically respond to it, customizing circuits, sensors, and code to interface with physical phenomena - people, movement, air, light, and sound. I believe this challenges not only the usual limitations of technology but the usual parameters of an artistic experience.
Sometimes the complexity of craft in what I make is transparently revealed as itself worthy of reflection, other times it is hidden to invite the viewer to focus on powerfully simple fundamentals of their own agency and perception. I believe the interfaces and experiences of the future must be engineered, yet also still contain mystery, difficulty, and beauty.