I MAKE EMOTIVE MACHINES
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Each piece is an experiment in empathy: a machine, or an object, or a sound trying to make you recognize something in yourself. If you saw a wall that seemed to breathe, could you feel more connected to your own body? Or if a sound reminded you that there is an invisible world beyond yourself, could you feel grounded? What if it changed over time? If the object or work wasn’t static but subject to the physical stresses of a lifetime?
When the object becomes an experience, there's potential for emotive feedback. There's a space where subtle gestures and sensory experience become amplified, where machines aren’t simply kinetic art but projectors of subjectivity, impressing subtle notions of infinities within and without our bodies, crafting an esoteric moment shared between viewer and machine.
All my emotive machines are created with and through technological processes. The ideas and notions I am trying to impress determine what technologies I use, and the technologies I use determine how the piece exists in the world.
anchoragE, babel in reverse
A public art installation located in Brooklyn, under the anchorage of the Manhattan Bridge
babel in reverse, global voices at pratt institute
A new iteration of Babel with projection mapping at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
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motion/emotion: exploring affect from automata to robots
This exhibition will investigate the emotional qualities of automata and robots by pairing the Museum’s permanent collection with the work of contemporary artists and scientists. By highlighting the intersections between art, science, and emotion, this exhibition seeks to connect the Barry Art Museum’s historical automata to 21st-century interests while also asking how robots can help us better understand our own humanity.
