“We have to go back to kindergarten. We have to get back to the level of those who have not yet learned to read and write. In this kindergarten, we will have to play infantile games with computers, plotters, and similar gadgets. We must use complex and refined apparatuses, the fruit of a thousand years of intellectual development, for childish purposes.”
—Vilém Flusser, “Does Writing Have a Future?”

Born 1978, Chicago, Illinois

I am a text-based interdisciplinary artist exploring the intersection of language and technology. As an Associate Professor at the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, I direct the TYPO Lab, an experimental art and design space exploring text-based technologies. I received my Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, San Diego with a focus on Computing and the Arts.

My creative practice examines the limitations, glitches, and failures inherent to language and text-based technologies. I work in diverse media including large-scale neon installations, digital animations, and intricate, repetitive drawings. I’m fascinated by translation software, predictive text, and spell-check algorithms, along with erasers, label-makers, and manual typewriters. I use these tools in absurd and unorthodox ways to expose their subtle but profound influence on our communication and thinking. This playful, provocative, and sometimes uncomfortable work challenges the cultural standards and norms embedded within language.

I have exhibited work at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the MSU Broad Art Museum, the Power Plant in Toronto, the Glucksman Museum in Cork, Ireland, Banff Centre for the Arts, and the 57th Venice Biennale (official offsite venue). I am a Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum Fellow and have included work in the Electronic Literature Organization's 4th Anthology.