STATEMENT OF WORK

I am a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through performance and video I reinvigorate the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space Movement, and concrete/visual poetry as new possibilities in digital cartography. My concerns include perceptual pleasure and fatigue, geographies of the natural and built environment, and subverting the presumed objectivity/authority of maps.

Since its premiere in April 2022 I've given over thirty performances of "A Synesthete's Atlas" across North America and Europe, during which I manipulate projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians and other time-based artists as a form of expanded cinema. I describe it as a visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments; others have called it truly radical cartography as well as pre-, post-, and anti-cinema.

Throughout February 2024, my "If Map #5", a map-based animation, looped on the eight story high display that crowns San Francisco's Salesforce Tower, the second tallest building west of the Mississippi River.

In September and October 2024 I was an Artist in Residence at AGA LAB in Amsterdam, creating a portfolio of screenprinted maps whose design was in dialogue with works by Eduardo Paolozzi, Corita Kent, and other Pop practitioners from the 1960s.