Communicator bridging art, performance, and AI: I research, write, curate and teach on the intersections of art and technology. I am interested in how we interact – and want to perform – with new innovations, and the ethics and societal implications therein. Currently, I am a Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI Graduate Fellow and a Public Knowledge Fellow through the Stanford Public Humanities, as well as a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University.
In my artistic practice I use performance as a methodology to better understand institutions and the roles comprising them. My work includes the artist book From JBAD: Lessons Learned (Les Figues Press) based on my time as embedded “media” with US Forces in Afghanistan and for which I created the feature-length video-performance FIRST ASSIGNMENT. Select venues which have featured this project include The Velaslavasay Panorama Theater, &Now Conference of Innovative Literature and Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and VeggieCloud in California. My second feature-length work And I Think I Like It., a collection of 13 video-song-poems in installation and in performance, with associated artist book (Edition Solitude), examines an experience of “artist” within the US presidential election years of 2011-13. The project has been the subject of solo performance-exhibitions at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Human Resources LA, UCR Culver Center for the Arts, Monte Vista Projects, The Kiesel (Friedrichshafen, Germany), as well as showcased in The Series at The Standard Hotel in Los Angeles, Bruno Glint Gallery (London), and Galerie White Project (Paris), among others. In my exhibition On the Rocks, In the Land at Pitzer College Art Galleries, with accompanying artist zine with curator Ciara Ennis, I analyzed the role of “tourist” in known conflict zones with ‘walls.’ In 2014 I created and premiered my experimental opera Caution Baum with the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. This production is part of my three-tiered project Caution, bomb, for which I also acted as a representative of a gossip blog and covered the 2016 US National Conventions.
I have been profiled in the Stuttgarter Zeitung, the Stuttgarter Nachrichten, and Word Is A Virus on the Art21Blog and interviewed for The Art World Demystified on Yale University Radio, Anti-Heroin Chic, Riffin’ on KCHUNG Radio, and [outward from nothingness]. Select honors include a California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, a Center for Cultural Innovation – ARC grant, The Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts, and fellowships at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), Digital Arts Studios Belfast, and I-Park Foundation (East Haddam, Connecticut), among other distinctions. I carry an MFA in Art and in Writing from California Institute of the Arts and a BA with Honors in Human Development and in Visual Arts from The University of Chicago.
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