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I am an interdisciplinary artist who creates multi-sensory experiences through multimedia installation, video projection, live and telematic performance, drawing, and experimental sound. I am a generative thinker, instigator, and improviser. I am driven by a love for collaborative dialogue and experimentation. I explore the moving image as a live, malleable, and physical medium. By combining custom coding and responsive interfaces with the materiality of textural/architectural surfaces, I work with the optical phenomena of projection in space and live presence within. This exploration ranges from intricate, hand-constructed translucent environments to site-specific, large-scale projections on urban architecture and natural landscapes—including the post-fire empty lots of Altadena, CA, the forests of Norway, the rock formations of Joshua Tree, and the oak groves of Descanso Gardens. By adding improvisational dance & music to the mix, media technology becomes an extended nervous system, compositing live presence with mediated presence.

 

I am passionate about the kind of focus and attention required for improvisational live interaction across disciplines. I approach collaboration with an emphasis on co-creation in the moment and collective discovery rather than prescriptive idealized outcomes. I’ve been able to dream big thanks to opportunities, such as a commission by Montalvo Arts Center & CCRMA/Stanford University, three years presenting 4-hr multimedia performances at LUMINEX (a public art event projecting onto large buildings in DTLA) and access over the course of a year to explore projection at Descanso Gardens and engage with its community.

 

My work has been supported by Thoughtworks Arts, Irvine Foundation, NEA, Center for Cultural Innovation, MAP fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, City of LA (COLA), Pasadena Arts Council, NowArt-LA, Oracle Egg, The Music Center, Durfee Foundation, REDCAT, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, The Getty Center, Automata-LA, SASSAS, Angel City Jazz Festival, Dublab, Freewaves, Newtown, Turbulence.org, CalArts and Descanso Gardens.

 

MFA CalArts (Integrated Media/Film/Video)

MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art (Printmaking)

BA Brown University (Studio Art)

 

 

 

 

 

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Bob Bellerue

Joe Berardi

Alicia Byer

Carla Bozulich

Ellen Burr

Archie Carey

Leticia Castaneda

Scott Cazan

Paul Chavez

Alex Cline

Nels Cline

Dan Clucas

Phil Curtis

Gloria Damijan

Michael Dessen

Aaron Drake

Mark Dresser

dublab

Carmina Escobar

Harris Eisenstadt

Tim Feeney

gamin

Christopher Garcia

Vinny Golia

Tony Green

Emily Hay

Robert Hilton

Motoko Honda

Lewis Keller

Paul Kikuchi

Kadet Kuhne

Catherine Lamb

Dohee Lee

John Lindberg

Makoto Taiko Ensemble

Jorge Martin

Kozue Matsumoto

Scott L. Miller

Luisa Muhr

Toshi Nakamura

Odeya Nini

Albert Ortega

Jon Raskin

Scot Ray

Vicki Ray

Hahn Rowe

Steve Roden

Eli Rosenkim

Sara Schoenbeck

Jeff Schwartz

Anthony Shadduck

Patrick Shiroishi

Breeze Smith

Wadada Leo Smith

GE Stinson

Cassia Streb

Marta Tiesenga

Mark Trayle

Kira Vollman

Theresa Wong

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