Projects

Stuck in the Scroll

A compulsive scrolling monitor for TikTok.

Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto as Redaction Poetry

Reducing Andreessen down to the barest bits needed to glean his motivations, enemies, and focus.

Minus

A finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life.

Platform Sweet Talk

Examines the engagement romance behind social media notifications.

DEFICIT OF LESS

A supercut that reimagines Mark Zuckerberg through one of his least favorite words.

Get Less

An interactive installation that tests our inclinations toward subtraction.

Tokenize This

A generator of unique digital objects that can only be viewed once.

Not For You

An automated confusion system for TikTok.

The Endless Doomscroller

An endless stream of doom, without all the specifics.

ORDER OF MAGNITUDE

A supercut that examines what Mark Zuckerberg focuses on by extracting a few words he says regularly.

Safebook

Facebook without the content, hiding all images, text, video, and audio on the site. Will this make Facebook “safe?”

Twitter Demetricator

Hides all the metrics on Twitter. Like, retweet, and follower counts all disappear.

Go Rando

Obfuscates your feelings on Facebook by randomly choosing reactions for you when you click "Like."

Instagram Demetricator

Hides all the metrics on Instagram. Like, views, and follower counts all disappear.

Textbook

Removes images from Facebook, leaving only text. See how hiding images changes your experience of the site.

Touching Software

Uses contemporary film and TV to examine how the designs of software are driving our physical movements and actions.

Get More

An experiment to find the barest amount of information required to activate the "desire for more."

You like my like of your like of my status

Sound/video installation for generative text and speech synthesis

Music Obfuscator

Audio manipulation to evade Content ID. What does it sound like at the edges of computational listening?

Tracing You

Presents a website’s best attempt to see the world from its visitors’ viewpoints

Our Emulated Multi-Self

Generative text and sound on the theme "Synthetic Selves," an invited work for the Amsterdam-based experimental magazine NXS

More Like This

A metricated musical environment for saxophones, AI, live electronics, and participatory audience.

ScareMail

Fill your emails with "scary" words in order to disrupt NSA Internet surveillance.

Computers Watching Movies

Shows what a computational system sees when it watches the same films that we do.

Facebook Demetricator

How is an interface that foregrounds our friend count changing our conceptions of friendship? Remove the numbers and find out.

Protocols of Looking

How is our shift into online social spaces changing protocols of looking? What happens when we can look all we want without notice?

Interactive Robotic Painting Machine

An artificially intelligent machine that considers what it hears as it paints its own body of work.

Reload The Love!

Artificially inflates your Facebook notification numbers when they are really zero. What do these icons want?

Third Person

Two autonomous computational systems with their own behaviors and vision watch each other: how does the viewer change these interactions?

Personal Depersonalization System

An automated query machine that depersonalizes my web activity by hiding my interests within a sea of random noise.

Speed of Reality

This work explores issues of speed, editing, and sound in today's reality TV programming. Is 'reality' media altering non-mediated reality?

Please Don't Like This

Can you not click "like"—even when faced with a count of those who failed before you?

Flexible Pixels

Pixels, the fundamental unit of digital images, are all the same size and shape. What happens if you change that?

Finding Your Voice

If you don't speak does anyone see you? What happens if we can see conversation dynamics—will it change the conversation?

Money, Management, and Electronic Mail

Looks at the relationships between communications technology, management, money, and work.

Computer Music and GACSS

Original digital sound synthesis software and the compositions for tape and tape/instrument that use it.

Cut/Paste Computer Music

Computer music compositions created using existing recordings as source material, and simple cut/paste and mix operations.

Instrumental Compositions

Music compositions for solo instruments and small to medium chamber ensembles.

Works for Low Trumpet

What does it sound like when the trumpet is played lower than the trombone? Works I've written and performed for low trumpet.