interaction design + literary arts

Tell me about yourself

I am an artist, user experience designer, and educator. In my artwork, I express poetry through a variety of forms—video, digital media, interactive performance, and print—that consciously engage with the affordances of each medium. In a time of chatbots, essays generated by algorithms, and comments mined for advertising opportunities, I believe that re-enchanting our connection to both language and technology is essential to maintain our poetic experience.

My design work includes experience design and UX research for clients such as the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Samsung, Nike, Sesame Workshop, Martha Stewart, Lego, as well as a number of start-ups.

I teach both theory and practice-based courses across design, technology, and media at The New School and New York University.

I have university degrees in Cognitive Science, Interactive Telecommunications, and Literary Arts. I also have a first-degree black belt in Aikido.

Performances + Workshops

Mending Body/Mending Mind Brooklyn, NY 2024.
I wrote a poem and composed a sound piece for Holly Wong's powerful installation about domestic violence and healing.

intelligent Art online exhibition, 2024.
One of three commissioned artists to create work in response to use of AI tools in higher education.

Alchemy Method. Alchemy, Inc Training Program, New York, NY 2024-25.
I've been accepted as into the pilot program of Dr Kwame Scruggs' transformative method for developing urban youth through traditional oral storytelling.

Awards, Grants, Press

Core77 Design Awards 2023.
Winner: Interaction Award for Tower of Faces Augmented Reality Experience
Notable: Emerging Technologies Award for Tower of Faces Augmented Reality Experience

Print All Over Me Endowment 2021.
To develop a poetry project using Print All Over Me's print-on-demand textile platform. Read more about the project.

New Radio and Performing Arts Commission 2007.
For development of generative poetry project No Time Machine, with Daniel C. Howe.

Brown University Electronic Writing Fellowship 2006.

Publications + Citations

ha!art, No. 46. Interview in Polish literary magazine ha!art for an issue dedicated to experimental literature. Interviewed by Piotr Marecki, pp 64-79. Fall 2014.

Piper, Andrew. Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times. The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Is that all?

There's more. See my CV - PDF.