a bit about me

I make stuff. I like to think as hard as I can about what I would like to see in the world, and then make that happen. This usually requires a mixture of aesthetic and technological tactics, a field in which I am always learning. I studied video/new media art at Harvard and have just finished my Master’s at the MIT Media Lab. At MIT I worked in the Hyperinstruments group on locative media art, performance robotics, rapid prototyping, interface design, and all the other topics you’d expect at a place like that.

Here is a résumé and a CV.

If you would like to get in touch, please send me a message to AKA [at] [this domain name]. I am currently working full-time, but would be happy to talk about after-work collabs.


LITTLE DETAILS

• I use delicious, flickr, twitter, github, tumblr, youtube, vimeo, pachube, instructables, soundcloud, and more services that I have forgotten about.
• I built a 3d printer in February, 2010, and became addicted. I’m currently working on another one (I left the first one with my collaborator in Boston), as well as a CNC router so I can make my own boards.
• I try to keep up my writing with a little semi-autobiographical blog.
• I try to update distant friends and family with a separate blog that is now mostly about my garden, although it used to be mostly thesis minutiae. I will be the first to admit that it is not very interesting. It’s also where I go to break WordPress and work on custom theme stuff, so I bet it doesn’t look great in your browser.
• I brew beer, I love dogs, and I married Harlo. I love her too.
• I feel like I am very good at pool and poker, but the feeling is wrong: I am not good at those.
• I live in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Before Brooklyn, I lived in Massachusetts; before that, New Hampshire; before that, South Florida; before that, Canada; before that, England; before that, Ecuador; before that, Ohio; before that, Illinois; before that, I was still dead.