I build systems that mediate between minds.
My work uses computation, light, robotics, sound, and performance to investigate what can cross the opaque boundaries between interior experience, machines, other people, and the physical world. I am interested in the acts of encoding and inference that occur at those boundaries: how intention becomes action, how behavior becomes evidence of a mind, how information becomes reality, and how trust survives when the thing on the other side cannot be directly known.
Engineering is both material and method in this practice. Rather than illustrating a proposition, I often construct a system and allow a participant to inhabit it.
I am a San Francisco-based artist. Since 2023 I have run Wake'n'Make, a makerspace and studio in the Bayview. The shop exists to support fabrication, experimentation, collaboration, and the production of large-scale work.
I trained as an electrical engineer at UCLA. That background shows up here as a way of thinking — constraints, interfaces, failure modes — and as the means of building the instruments the work requires.
I spent a decade working on technology aimed at helping people facing some of the toughest life circumstances at Neuralink, Waymo, and Google. Those jobs matter to the practice mainly because they sharpened the same questions the artwork takes up: what an interface should preserve when it stands between a living being and the unknown.