a living index of my research and creative practice

A monthly mini-lecture and hack night for artists, game designers, character designers, architects, world builders, and AI agent designers working in (or interested in exploring) 3D simulation.

I spoke about my work in progress of hyperviolet (wip), an ongoing series of visual and written motifs revolving around archiving found objects that hold deep memory, worldbuilding, and lore. I shared my process of practicing creative writing, 3d-photogammetry and game engines to archive real life artifacts into autofictional worlds.

Designing a spectrum of worlds that bring humans, virtual agents, and simulated natural systems into relation with each other, in order to investigate the different ways they co-adapt, co-regulate, and co-evolve. As these processes unfold, we build games, animations, live performances and sculptures out of (and from inside) those worlds.

It is an earthly aura of feeling atuned to one another. That stare. It is doe eyed and lightly glassed with sunken kindness. Laughing and relating... gathering. Hoping that you would be so courteous to go for a walk together.

"What is your favorite color?"

Memory, Love, and the Handmade

A short performative talk about methods in making technology emit the essence of the handmade, if it is even possible, and vulnerability within the act of sharing data. Data as love notes, handmade messages, and craft.

Memory, Love, and the Handmade in Interactive Data Installation

The following is a short paper to preface a talk about my new media arts practice in the context of sharing of data installations and net art that will be presented in May at the 28th International Symposium for Electronic Arts 2023: Symbiosis in Paris, France. Artists talks at ISEA are 10 min talks that present works in progress. I am posting this because it will not be published in the proceedings, but I would like this to be archived publicly somehow..

Short paper called Codex Endogenous: Designing Interactive Self Data Visualization Tool for Trauma Impacted Individuals. This paper proposes the use of a data visualization tool for patients who are in therapy for PTSD. The paper speculates on future possibilities in the use of a novel method combining the quantified self, journaling, and data visualization.

Abstract

The Quantified Self is best described by Gary Wolf as “self-knowledge through numbers.” William James’ theory of the consciousness of the self and the study of coping inspires drawings that retell personal narratives at the same time reveal traces of the subtle emotion associated with intentional forgetting. Codex Endogenous is a project that reveals and visualizes the beauty and morphology of a “self ” and its environment. Here, “codex” refers to a collection of pages stitched together, and “endogenous” is a term in cognitive neuroscience used to describe phenomena that is spontaneously generated from an individual’s internal state. Every day, quantifiable information about the self is produced; left unrevealed would leave the spirit of a self undiscovered. In this project, the self information is transformed into self-knowledge. Data is tracked throughout a day, categorized into implicit and explicit information, visualized as daily data drawings. Analogous to the practice of keeping a daily journal, Codex Endogenous is a digital journal in a screen-based format. It is composed of drawings that embody data representation of the quantified self in the context of environmental habituation including the intentional redaction of information rather forgotten.

I attended International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2020 Montreal and presented my