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Biotopy 2024 | Made in collaboration with Wendi Yan and Will Freudenheim with contributions from Jessica Shand and Omar Rizwan Biotopy is interested in the convergence of science and play: what roles might games take in scientific research of the future? In the last decade, citizen science games like FoldIt, EteRNA, EyeWire, and Borderlands Science have demonstrated that player participation can…
Carillon September 2009 - Present | Guild of Carillonneurs at Yale and GCNA I began studying carillon at Yale. I’ve since performed at carillons through North America (Riverside Church in NYC , Peace Tower at the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Hoover Tower at Stanford) and Europe (Amsterdam NL , Dordrecht NL , Berlin DE , Mechelen BE , Bruges BE , Douai FR , Mafra PT , Loughborough UK ). I passed…
Evolution of Human Science December 2023 | Made at Interact Residency and UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art This project is excerpted from a Ted Chiang short story, “ Catching Crumbs From the Table” , that was originally written in June 2000 for the scientific journal Nature, which had asked various writers to imagine how the next millennia of scientific research will change. In the piece,…
Generative Artifice January 2024 | Made in collaboration with Case Miller at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art Just as Orson Welles’ F for Fake explored the interplay between facts, forgery, and filmmaking by playing with the technical editing processes that create films, “ Generative Artifice” seeks to understand the implications of Generative AI on the world in a moment where its impact seems…
Autocatallaxy June 2023 | Made in collaboration with Will Freudenheim and William Morgan at the Antikythera Studio To date, price has evolved enormously complex sensory integration techniques, and as it faces new pressures–a Great Carbonization Event and an Informatic Complexity Threshold–its mutation rate is likely to accelerate. Today’s mega-risks are born of connection and complexity: pandemic,…
Xenoplex June 2023 | Made in collaboration with Connor Cook at the Antikythera Studio The emergence of computational systems has led to a better understanding of planetary-scale evolution. The Xenoplex seeks to explore the potential new major evolutionary transition from natural to machinic language. By simulating the origins of life from Hadean Earth and exoplanet biosignatures using…
Ends of Science June 2023 | Made in collaboration with Will Freudenheim and Imran Sekalala at the Antikythera Studio The rise of science imbued with artificial intelligence heralds a profound shift for the foundations of scientific inquiry, which may lead to the acceleration of epistemic overhangs, where empirical gaps emerge from new discoveries, and epistemic underhangs, where theoretical gaps…