Our culture's transition towards the digital is fundamentally changing the way we relate to each other and our environment. The initial response of the media community to these changes has been to critique and examine the tools, defining work by how it uses technology, not by how it is experienced.

Electronic media has vast potential to present new interpretations of our perceptual and social experiences. My work is focused on how to design more fluid and seamless interfaces between people, information, and each other. I build installations focused on touching and challenging the social and emotional layers of a viewer’s experience.

My work integrates media -- software design, video projection, and mechanics -- with human gestures like singing, touching, drawing, exploring, and meditating. I strive to use computational tools from a humanistic and sensitive perspective to explore new possibilities for communicative interfaces. These projects have “passively responsive” interfaces that question the toy-like gratification of “interactive interfaces” by responding to stillness, focus, gesture, acknowledgment, and presence.

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Some highlights from previous public works include: Memtable 2009, Telestory 2008, Wordplay 2007, Metadome at Art Chicago 2007, Still Watching for the G2 Gallery in Chicago, 2006, The Word Association Garden, C33 Gallery, Chicago and the Nova Arts Space 2006; Sigularity, 2005, Macro Landscapes, 2004, Eye Response Tracking at the Virginia Arts Festival, 2003, The Sacogawea Project, 2002, and Downrail, 2000.

Current Initiatives include the Chronographer, Soundforms, Grassroots Mapping in Lima, and a framework for working with bodily interaction between viewers in a space. As of 2010 I am PhD student in the Fluid Interface Group at the MIT Media Lab.

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Perspectum is a latin word refering to modes of perception. Please visit the projects, play with them, and share links. Contact info is below, feel free to write.