My work situates electronic machines as a rich transferential field to explore feelings related to intimacy and attachment. Specifically, my work proposes systems of queer intimacy and relating between varying machine parts, viewers and machines, and viewers, themselves, and each other. When making work, I fantasize about electronics living and playing beyond the cycle of production and labor. I hope to offer viewers a way to interact with electronics outside the scope of surveillance and state discipline that surround electronic objects in everyday life.
My work is interdisciplinary and often takes the form of an installation or performance. I primarily make physical objects and systems that move and make noise. As a performer, I think of myself as an object within a larger electronic system. Although my work is often about many disparate themes, both machines and the human figure are present and sometimes indistinguishable from each other.
Thematically, my work catalogues the emotional legacies that electronic machines accumulate, store, and circulate through production. My interest in machines started at a very young age: I grew up within a small family business in print manufacturing. Spending time with my father and grandfather often involved being around large industrial equipment.
Currently, I manage a makerspace and work with digital fabrication machines every day. The sounds, maintenance/care, and operation of machines form the primary landscape of my practice. I currently manage the Makerspace out of Temple University’s Charles Library. Previously, I taught undergraduate courses in art and design at multiple institutions.
