Curious philomath; Interested in the nature of reality, nature of life, nature of the mind.

Artist and Computer Scientist working with emerging technologies both as a creative medium, and as subject of critical inquiry;

Creating Speculative Simulations & Data Dramatizations that probe the cultural, social, and ecological impacts of our contemporary techno-lifestyles, and the collisions between science and spirituality, modernity and ritual, self and collective intelligence.

For more than a decade, has worked with AI, Big Data, and our Collective Consciousness as scraped and shaped by the internet, to reflect on the human condition.

PhD in ‘Deep Visual Instruments: Realtime Continuous, Meaningful Human Control over Deep Neural Networks (aka AI) for creative expression’, from Goldsmiths University of London.

Co-director @ Superradiance Center for Entangled Intelligence & Planetary Consciousness (with Katie Hofstadter)

Associate Professor of New Media and Computational Art @ University of California San Diego.

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