Kol Nidrei is my favorite prayer and so I have rarely missed attending its recitation in the past 20 years or so. This year, of course, was different.
A data visualization exploration into how often NFL odds-makers are accurate — and to what extent.
A paper, co-authored with Michelle Charette, that seeks to highlight (1) the problematics associated with a systemic reliance on quantitative tools that are themselves validated via statistical methods; (2) what alternatives already exist, regardless of their logistical shortcomings; and (3) the actual and possible consequences of continuing a trajectory of data-based pain rating. Published in the Canadian Journal of Pain (Open Access).
An interactive installation that examines our relationship to datafication and artificial intelligence.
From After Universal Design: The Disability Design Revolution (Bloomsbury 2023), this chapter presents the history of the face-based pain scale, developed during a time of increasing privatization of the U.S. healthcare system.
From Culture and Medicine Critical: Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities (Bloomsbury 2022), this chapter presents the history of the Visual Analog Scale, a popular graphic tool used in medical pain studies.
Web design and development for award winning podcast.
A Twitter bot that reminds you to add alt tags.
A symbolic intervention against the human rights violations perpetrated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
An effort to reconnect the so-called “virtual” to the colonizing practices of big tech.
An interactive and multimodal experience that uses the proprietary and encrypted translation algorithms built into the Fitbit to visualize a participant’s movement
Subjects are implicated in the deconstruction and recontextualization of the human body through photographic anthropometric capture.
A meditation on the geological-scale impact of mobile technologies as well as the socio-political and environmental implications of the mining of minerals for these technologies.
Using poetry to illustrate the translation from a common computer code into human language, travelers are invited to experience poetry about color from a diverse range of cultures and perspectives.
A hybrid transmedia performance-exhibition.
Uses readings from the brain monitor to change the scene in a shadowbox
Hugh Dubberly — interaction designer, writer, and lecturer extraordinaire — called our work ineffective and self-indulgent. And we’re actually quite grateful.
A device that scrambles your data before algorithms use it to provide recommendations
A prototype designed and built to question global capital's reliance on precarious labor and time as a product.
An attempt to burst the filter bubble manifested by YouTube's Algorithmic investment in—and capitalist motivation to promote—popularity.
Designed and built through a collaboration of artists, designers, architects, and a seamstress, the piece seeks to provide its viewers with the experience of Prometheus, a Greek titan with access to a constant stream of human consciousness.
A collection of mixed media artifacts that asks user/viewers to consider how brevity has changed our world.
Audio-reactive light installations translate data collected from their respective environments into visual representations through an array of RGB LED's and a single Arduino board.
An ironic and satirical speculative multi-media narrative that critiques information design's hegemonic power.
Considers the material implications of a shift from analog to digital.