About
As a multi-media artist, theorist, art teacher, and historian, I find myself deeply immersed in the evolving landscape of social media and the intersection of art and business in the post-internet age. This dynamic environment profoundly resonates with me, sparking my passion for exploring innovative ways of creating art and establishing businesses and communities in this digital era.
I am continuously inspired to engage in creative collaborations with fellow businesses and artists, leveraging our forward-thinking insight to bring compelling visions to life. Through collaborative brainstorming and creative execution, I strive to foster a sense of community and connection, where diverse perspectives converge to produce impactful and meaningful work.
RESEARCH
I am passionate about exploring AI's impact on culture through understandings of paradox, irony and embodiment. My research delves into digital interfaces such as TikTok and Depop, city planning and architecture in Silicon Valley, meme culture, and deep fakes. Navigating the evolving landscape of social media, especially through platforms like TikTok, help me engage interpretations of art's potential for liberation within the AI era. Circulation, categorization, surveillance, bodily fragmentation, and disconnection from physical surroundings serve as markers for a cultural neurosis and hunger for fun, intensity, and distraction.
Post-modern theorists, Deleuze and Guattari stress subversion and dispersed subjectivity in understanding this cultural and pathological evolution. Decentralized subjectivity merges individuals with machines (otherwise known as a ‘body with out organs’), paradoxically serving as both a liberating force and a surrender to the risks of platform capitalism. Through my video, I seek to interrogate the surface body’s growing connection to AI through a visualization of the deep body - the inner voice. Images of machines without organs talking, AI generated images, a person with a veil, and discussions of ASMR and anxiety come together to reflect an un/relatable feedback loop.
Shaping, slotting, streamlining narratives, soothing individuals, and centralizing connection are key elements to an online apparatus and growing cultural conscience that is propelled by information over materiality. Thus, in my video, I seek to relocate the body by creating space for pause, heightened pace, informational contradictions, and, hopefully, a space for the viewer to feel, reflect, and interrogate physical, mental, and regressed states.