This chapter is oriented around a particular ontological statement: “There is no ethical way to use AI.”
German language interview around the use of emoji as a purported unviersal language. Starts at 15:11.
German language interview on my work around Otto Neurath and face-based pain scales.
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).
A data visualization exploration into how often NFL odds-makers are accurate — and to what extent.
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.
An immersive multimedia experience in the space of one of Toronto's first immigrant havens, asks visitors to consider the paradoxical nature of diaspora-isolating and community-building.
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 symbolic intervention against the human rights violations perpetrated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A Twitter bot that reminds you to add alt tags.
An effort to reconnect the so-called “virtual” to the colonizing practices of big tech.
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.
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.