RESUME

I am a Brooklyn-based artist, learner, and educator.

I received my master’s degree in new media art at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where I began to use traditional and emerging technologies to create work that examines people's understanding of one another and their environment.

My research, practice, and pedagogy center the social imagination and therapeutic play. 

Specifically, my work takes the form of tactile sonic object installations (objects that emit sound in response to environmental stimuli), sculpture, performance, workshops, drawing, and video. Relying on randomness and other human and nonhuman agents, I often position my sound installation work to live independently, authoring itself and serving as a reflexive instrument.

Sound Playground is an example of such a work. It is a networked troupe of sound-objects that remain somewhat opaque to the participants. People who engage with these objects by touching them or walking by them understand that they cannot control this object ecosystem but can collaborate with it to a degree. In this way I use object agency to invite people to sit with, interact with, and observe (and enjoy!) a system that is not fully knowable to them. In a world where technology is used primarily to reduce people, things, and nature to numbers, to control, I proposed a model - or a reminder - of opacity and fugitivity.

I am interested in using these types of participatory installations and loosely choreographed group workshops to examine and mitigate trauma on the collective and individual levels, social trauma especially. Working with marginalized communities is of particular interest - the chronically ill, neurodiverse, elderly, disabled, immigrant, or the artistically inclined (which, I feel, counts as a disability in this sociopolitical climate) as those are the pockets of society that should be heard and active. I believe non dominant groups like these have healing and course-correcting power.

I am researching the intersection of art and labor, mutual aid, antiwork imaginaries, and cooperative structures and looking for ways to use participatory art and design to diversify ways in which people can collaborate for mutual benefit within and outside of existing systems.