a living index of my research and creative practice

Adorned is a personal music curation project composed of crafting together liturgical, tape and electroacoustic music. I publish in the form of a reoccurring radio show that plays on index radio. It plays at night and is just an outlet for me to craft unusual songs together when I am bored.

Index Radio is a community radio platform for talk and music — anyone can submit a segment to be played at index-space.org. Think of it as an aggregator for all the cool work the community is tapped into like podcasting, long-form writing, DJ mixes, personal playlists, etc.

The four artists represented in memory.unshift() exhibit their contemplations, memories, thoughts and meditations on the shifting and tenuous relationship between electronic technology and human consciousness.

As part of a cohort in Digital Love Languages, handmade data sets take part in collecting moments with a loved one. The program spits out a JSON file that prints a real piece of paper and collects over time. The prompts aim to capture the height of intimacy, yet still fails to encapsule a full state of mindfulness.

Theory of Mind Prism is a large scale installation takes data from the people around a space but instead it emits a mirror image made up of grey squares in a grid. A prism of lines oscillating in a light color spectrum, reminiscent of the saturation of color seen emitting from prisms start to connect lines and entangling the viewer and their accompanying friends. Theory of mind is the psychological phenomena that lets living beings understand other’s emotional states. Behavior in this space facilitated a sense of play and joy. Viewers were seen frockling past the installation waiting for their lines to trail behind them and entangle with their friend.

Sense was the first idea to track myself using various devices and use the data output to draw on a canvas. The canvas drew out a network-like pattern that cooresponded to an accelerometer. The idea was that I could connect several sensors on a wristband and have it constantly emit data throughout the day. The result of the day would be an artistic representation generated purely by self data.

Rain Beakon is an ode to the longing for rain and solace. Three panels of sheer fabric hang from the ceiling with a projection of rain falling projection-mapped so that only the fabrics are illuminated in the space. Rain sounds are strong when no one is present, rain sounds are calm when people are present.

Paying homage to Daniel Hertzfelt’s award-winning animations, Pulse of Anonymous Images is one’s memory are displayed with projections onto sheer fabric hanging from the ceiling almost like holograms. The image that is being projection-mapped onto the fabric has photos from an anonymous being. There is a pulse sensor on a pedestal. Once there is a finger on the pulse sensor, the color channels of the image start to become offset creating layered overlapping of color interactions at the rate of the current visitor’s pulse. This forces an intimate interaction with the user and the anonymous being’s memories.