Artist, Researcher, Hypnotist
Labs Installation at Siggraph 2024 in Denver, CO, USA.
About My work
Embodied Interaction as Reflective Practice
eXtended Intelligence and Spatial Knowledge Architectures
Embodied Interaction as Reflective Practice
I am an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring how novel forms of human–computer interaction can transform everyday activities into sites of learning, reflection, and self-improvement. My practice integrates novel text encoding and decoding, as well as image and audio playback into embodied performances, where simple switches,
I am an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring how novel forms of human–computer interaction can transform everyday activities into sites of learning, reflection, and self-improvement. My practice integrates novel text encoding and decoding, as well as image and audio playback into embodied performances, where simple switches, sensors, or interoceptive signals (breath, blink, heart beat) trigger real-time variations in interaction. These mappings activate unexpected sensory and conceptual associations, for example syllables of pre-recorded speech sequenced through chewing, MIDI notes triggered by gesture, or rapid serial text display controlled by the pace of one’s breath. By reconfiguring ordinary actions into channels of interaction, I aim to reawaken the pleasure of presence and highlight how repetition constrains and iteration indulges cognition.
Conditioning Experience Through Performance
eXtended Intelligence and Spatial Knowledge Architectures
Embodied Interaction as Reflective Practice
My creative work is fueled by research in suggestion, expectation, placebo, and priming, all psychological processes that reveal the pliability of human perception. During my MFA research, I became a certified hypnotist and developed active-alert self-hypnosis techniques, using physical exertion rather than stillness to induce heightened
My creative work is fueled by research in suggestion, expectation, placebo, and priming, all psychological processes that reveal the pliability of human perception. During my MFA research, I became a certified hypnotist and developed active-alert self-hypnosis techniques, using physical exertion rather than stillness to induce heightened suggestibility. I paired these physical techniques with interactive systems to demonstrate how embodied association could alter self-perception and behavior. Performances such as Do You Like Butter? and Jerky Cowboy exemplify this approach as the body becomes a medium for conditioning experience through playful and sometimes absurd connections of activity and media.
eXtended Intelligence and Spatial Knowledge Architectures
eXtended Intelligence and Spatial Knowledge Architectures
eXtended Intelligence and Spatial Knowledge Architectures
As a PhD candidate in Human-Centered Computing, my research has evolved toward the creation of embodied systems for eXtended Intelligence. My dissertation, eXtended Intelligence as an Embodied, Tangible, and Spatial Audio Model for Personal Knowledge Management, investigates how slow, effortful, and multisensory modes of encoding and deco
As a PhD candidate in Human-Centered Computing, my research has evolved toward the creation of embodied systems for eXtended Intelligence. My dissertation, eXtended Intelligence as an Embodied, Tangible, and Spatial Audio Model for Personal Knowledge Management, investigates how slow, effortful, and multisensory modes of encoding and decoding (such as interoceptive typing, Morse drumming, and embodied Braille) can extend reflection and insight generation. This project reframes personal knowledge systems as intelligence prostheses by designing extended activities and environments where embodied interaction cultivates deliberate presence rather than the quick offloading of an idea. The system is composed of tangible knowledge cubes arranged in six 8-foot-tall 3D printed “ivory towers” and a spatial audio environment that mirrors the arrangement of the physical towers and cubes. This serves as personal knowledge architecture I inhabit, ubiquitously access, and autoethnographically document.