creative projects
Virtual Apparitions : Borrowed TimeVirtual Apparitions explores the transfer of identity through networks by examining the physical manifestation of virtual bodies using platforms that support congenial, friendly, romantic, or intimate relationships over long distances. Virtual bodies, including avatars, social media profiles, or video platforms, do not relay intimacy or subtle social cues; however, as technology advances, the gaps between the corporeal and virtual continue to diminish. The work visualizes the extended social network as a physical presence through the use of video, sound, and sculpture. In the cacophony of voices, presence is indeterminable, focus is scattered, and the network pulses with artificial liveliness.
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Techne - The Embedded CircuitThis project, under the title, “Techne,” manifested as weeks of cultural research, prototyping a working loom model, recording and displaying the process of weaving the piece, and creating a tapestry embedded with a working electronic circuit. Although the tapestry is the first in a collection of experiments in this hybrid medium, the final piece acts as a standalone item that warrants discussion concerning the intersections of technology and craft and our expectations of either group.
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Products That Ruined the World, But Started A DiscussionThe title of this body of work, Products That Ruined the World, But Started A Discussion, carries the heavy connotations of an environment's cry for help. This assumption would be partially correct. The group of stories relates to a broader understanding of our individual relationships to the environment. The ecological setting, in this case, is depicted in a multitude of forms: in figurative representation, in literal representation, and in a subliminal representation that must be culled from the stories collectively.
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