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Selected Works 2001–2009

Grammapedagology / 2009
an exploration of how we learn language, and how it doesn't work.

The Last Book / 2009
collaboration with Steve Fagin, Mary Gaitskill, Leslie Thorton, and Davina Semo

Binarisms / 2008
an exploration of the materiality of binary pairs

Challenger / 2006
Confessions

If Bruce Nauman Were a Net Artist / 2006
an ironic look at early video art, subjectivty, and the promises of utopian interactivty

Permutations of Being: Sous Rature / 2006
permutations of ways to signify the deconstructed notion of "being" under erasure

Akzidenz vs. Helvetica / 2006
differential comparison of subtle typographical shifts in Swiss modernism / Don't forget your 3D glasses

Resistant Architectures / 2005
documentation of architectures that resist the ubiquitous "remodel"

Ambience / 2005
a digital wall projection pairing scrolling Victorian wallpaper patterns with minimal house baselines

Racecar / 2005
an installed cartesian palindrome

Confessions: A Fictional Overhaul of St. Augustine / 2004
an articulated reading environment that looks at the similarities between blogs and confessionals

The Diaorama that Ruled the World / 2004
a virtual graphical user interface made in real life!

Crests / 2004
a monstrous mixing of gendered iconographies of space

Enola Gay Screensaver / 2004
A screensaver dedicated to Thomas Pynchon

Sext / 2003
a hypertexual taxonomy of networked fetishes

Faces / 2003
memomry game meets the pleasure principle

Letters to Frankenstein / 2002
a series of dysfunctional narratives about dysfunctional monsters

Edentity / 2001
a hypertext exploration of existence within a post-human world

Fatsimon / 2001
a technologically anachronistic bedtime story about a boy named simon

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