I am an interdisciplinary artist, integrating science and philosophy into my making process. I’m interested in the entanglements and connectedness of the world. To explore these complex networks, I create interactive spaces where humans and nonhumans can share sensory experiences– exploring, observing, shaping our shared existence.

Overcoming the Ineffability of Ocean Memory in 3 Nodes (OIOM x3): Octopus Cognition, Genomic Transcoding & Non-anthropocentric Storytelling is a project supported by the Ocean Memory seed grant program– in collaboration with OM members: Timothy Weaver, Dominic Sivitilli, and Stephen Fiore. My node explores human/ octopus becomings, and asks: What can we learn from listening and connecting with the octopus? And how might ocean memory play a role in the relationship between two species who split evolutionary paths ~600 million years ago?

Artist Statement:
The world is a complex system made up of many small interactions. Each moment is an event: an active, participatory state where all parts of a system affect and are affected. I develop an art that is located within these events and works on their terms. It’s an art of systems, evolving boundaries, scale shifting, conversions and interspecies conversations. The work moves, responds and adapts– there are no neutral actors.

Our environment is a deeply entangled mix of ‘manmade’ and ‘natural’ processes– so much so that making this distinction is arguably inaccurate and counterproductive. Rather than separating the human from the system, I aim to illuminate the system itself, including the human within it. I highlight moments of direct effect, offering opportunities for meaningful engagement in action and responsibility. Moving away from a human-centric perspective encourages inclusivity and systems thinking as a step toward holistic, multi-species problem solving.

The ideas that underlie these methods have precedents in the philosophy of Bruno Latour, Graham Harman, Gilles Deleuze, and the non-anthropocentric sciences of Eduardo Kohn and Donna Haraway.