I am a Lisbon-based artist and computer programmer interested in the interplay between technology and the natural landscape. Using narrative generative systems—animated videos of infinite duration, real-time simulations built in game engines or other software—I create worlds that recontextualize aspects of digital culture we take for granted, often in absurd ways, while investigating the power structures which mediate our relationship with technology. Drawing on media archaeology and art history, my research process traces the origins of our current thought patterns around (technological) progress.
My work has been exhibited with Inter/Access (Toronto), Office Impart (Berlin), Panke Gallery (Berlin), SPRING BREAK Art Show (New York), Currents New Media (Center for Contemporary Art Santa Fe), The Wrong Biennale, BASE (Istanbul), Romanian Design Week (Bucharest), Infinite Objects and New York University. My real-time simulation work, Arcadia Inc. was recognized as a 2021 winner of the Lumen Prize in Art and Technology. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science (2016) from Yale University and an M.P.S. in Interactive Telecommunications (2021) from New York University, where I also served as a research resident and adjunct professor.
Besides my personal work, I sometimes design or build software for other artists and teach. You can view an archive of my client work here.
In a former life, I used to do competitive programming.
If you want to get in touch, send me an email.
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Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
Nov. 9 - Jan. 19, 2024 ✿ World Upstream is part of Hypertext at Yale University, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media ✿ New Haven, Group Show
Past Exhibitions (selection)
2024 ✿ World Upstream is part of symbiocene/anthropocene at WIP Festival ✿ Nicosia, Group Show
2024 ✿ The World Upstream (Stood Still) #3 is part of Public Spam, a public art project curated by Spam Index ✿ Bucharest, Group Show
2024 ✿ Arcadia Inc. is part of Desire for the Useless at Simultan Festival ✿ Timisoara, Group Show
2024 ✿ World Upstream is part of Beyond Human at Artemis Gallery ✿ Lisbon, Group Show
2024 ✿ Arcadia Inc. at Panke Gallery /rosa, part of Vorspiel Berlin, curated by Robert Sakrowski ✿ Berlin, Solo Show
2024 ✿ World Upstream is part of Reverse Tar Pit: Sludge Room at Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts ✿ New York, Group Show
2023 ✿ World Upstream is part of Reverse Tar Pit at Onassis ONX Studio ✿ New York, Group Show
2023 ✿ World Upstream and Human Interface Guidelines: Metaphor are featured in the Reverse Tar Pit and Desktop Studies pavilions at The Wrong Biennale 06 ✿ Group Show
2023 ✿ Delicate Chaos and a few other plotter drawings were included in Tracing the Line, published by Vetro Editions in collaboration with Generative Hut. ✿ Publication
2023 ✿ World Upstream is part of Tellurian Traversals at Putty's Coronation Gallery ✿ New York, Group Show
2023 ✿ Human Interface Guidelines: Metaphor is showing at CAV Multimedia Art Center ✿ Bucharest, Group Show
2023 ✿ World Upstream is part of Sandbox Mode at Office Impart ✿ Berlin, Group Show
2023 ✿ Human Interface Guidelines: Metaphor is part of Desktop Studies at Media Art Festival Arad ✿ Arad, Group Show
2023 ✿ Delicate Chaos is part of the Romanian Design Week ✿ Bucharest, Group Show
2023 ✿ The World Upstream (Stood Still) is part of the Vertical Crypto Art Residency Exhibition ✿ Group Show
2023 ✿ Arcadia Inc. is part of GUI / GOOEY at Plexus Projects ✿ Group Show
2022 ✿ Dynamic Links with Spam Index ✿ Group Show
2022 ✿ Scripting at the BLANC Gallery ✿ New York, Group Show
2022 ✿ Currents New Media ✿ Santa Fe, Group Show
2022 ✿ Delicate Chaos release on Plottables.io
2022 ✿ Kampüste Dijital Sanat ✿ Istanbul, Group Show
2022 ✿ Lumen Prize x Infinite Objects collection ✿ New York, Participating Artist
2021 ✿ SPRING/BREAK Art Show ✿ New York, Solo Show
2021 ✿ Lumen Prize ✿ London, Student Award Winner
View full CV here. Or, take a look at all the exhibitions I didn't have.
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Teaching
Networked Media ✿ Spring 2022, NYU Interactive Media Arts ✿ Adjunct Professor
Points, Lines and Systems ✿ November 2021, School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe ✿ Curriculum Developer & Instructor
Programming the Net ✿ Spring 2021 & Summer 2020, Upgrade Academy ✿ Curriculum Developer & Instructor
Your first Chrome extension! ✿ NYU ITP Camp 2020 ✿ Workshop Leader
Dark / Net / Art ✿ Tech for Social Good Day 2020 ✿ Workshop Leader (with Jackie Liu)
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Education
ITP, New York University ✿ 2019 – 2021 ✿ M.P.S. Interactive Telecommunications
Yale University ✿ 2012 – 2016 ✿ B.S. Computer Science