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portrait by Jon Allen!

I design how information is experienced. 

I’m a designer, artist, and curator. I primarily work creatively in collective practice with others, and I often use archival material to think through complex systems or design for speculative futures.

Currently, I am working on new design projects for clients as Program, ranging from film titles for an experimental documentary to a gif series for a professional astrologer/witch.

I'm also curating an exhibition of speculative post-sea-level-rise geoengineering and adaptive reuse by Ant Farmer Curtis Schreier.

I’m the co-founder of two artist collaboratives: Ant Farm Antioch Art Building Creative Preservation Initiative, aka AFAAB (a project with Catalina Alvarez and Tim Noble), and Epicurean Endocrinology (a project with Byron Rich), about hormones and food.

To guide my own collaborative practice (and simultaneously inspired by media theorist Paul Ryan and my work designing digital products as part of a team) I developed a methodology for collaborative work I call The Collaboration Agreement. I hope others might find this helpful in their own collectives and creative engagements.

I’ve written about video art and documentary, participatory and collaborative art making, and other topics related to media art for Afterimage, The Creators Project, and Intercourse. I co-edited and co-wrote (with Gabriel Florenz and David Everitt Howe) The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST book about the art and architecture group Ant Farm and their time capsule works.

I’ve taught courses on experience design, media art curating, and portfolio design at Antioch College, St. John’s University, and SUNY Buffalo and I’ve lectured on early video art history, the intersection of architecture and time capsules, the gift economy, and designing for creative collaboration at Universität Der Künste, Berlin; NYU Tisch; Technische Universität Berlin; Allegheny College, Pennsylvania; and UT Austin.

I studied art and media at Antioch College (an early testing ground for consent protocol and community governance) and have an MFA in Media Study from SUNY Buffalo. I also studied Media Art and Design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

From 2021-2022 led the UX and design team at DOOR3, a digital product design/build firm in NYC. We have a Youtube series called D3TV: Open Hours where you can watch my colleagues and me talk about things tech and tech-adjacent - the internet is forever, and this video series is my reminder. :)