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Challenger / 2006
If Bruce Nauman Were a Net Artist / 2006
Permutations of Being: Sous Rature / 2006
Akzidenz vs. Helvetica / 2006
Resistant Architectures / 2005
Ambience / 2005
Racecar / 2005
Confessions: A Ficitonal Overhaul of St. Augustine / 2004
The Diaorama that Ruled the World / 2004
Crests / 2004
Enola Gay Screensaver / 2004
Sext / 2003
Faces / 2003
Letters to Frankenstein / 2002
Edentity / 2001
Fatsimon / 2001

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a technologically anachronistic bedtime story about a boy named simon

a hypertext exploration of existence within a post-digital world

a series of dysfunctional narratives about dysfunctional monsters

memomry game meets the pleasure principle

a hypertexual taxonomy of networked fetishes

A screensaver dedicated to Thomas Pynchon

a monstrous mixing of gendered iconographies of space

a virtual graphical user interface made in real life!

an articulated reading environment that looks at the similarities between blogs and confessionals

an installed cartesian palindrome that looks at how reading enacts specific subjectivities

Ambience is a digital wall projection pairing scrolling Victorian wallpaper patterns with minimal house baselines.

documentation of architectures that resist the ubiquitous "remodel"

an algorithmic processing and installation of Rousseau's Confessions

a differential comparison of subtle typographical shifts in Swiss modernism / Don't forget your 3D glasses

permutations of ways to signify the deconstructed notion of "being" under erasure

an ironic look at early video art, subjectivty, and the promises of utopian interactivty


a video installation: reps vs. weight

a tightly cropped wall projection of a search for here

scissors make words with scars by altering context

a tragic comparison of text and image