Experiments in Doing Different Things Differently, with public art as the testing ground.
Bought a billboard for a fake chatbot powered by AI (an Average Individual). Answered over 1000 prompts a day. Website received over 200k prompts and over 15k humans who volunteered to staff the project. Try it out. (Currently on pause)
Press: SF StandardWIREDFortuneFuturismUSA TodaySF ChronicleCNET
We invite 20 strangers to an airport, pick one at random, and thoughtfully design an impromptu trip for them. Recap here.
Press: SF Standard
Collaboration with Danielle Baskin
A poem embedded in a physical surface that can only be revealed by damaging it. The trade-off is simple: participants get to discover a piece of art, but not without permanently altering, and eventually destroying, the object. The project demonstrates how meaningful progress often requires irreversible commitment—not careful preservation.
An homage to 90's nostalgia presented as a deteriorating desktop computer filled with corrupted files, half-written notes, and personal artifacts. Viewers navigate the system like an archeological site, piecing together a mystery from files, search histories, and password-protected folders. The poem lives not in a single text, but in the act of exploration itself.
A poem applied invisibly to the sidewalk using a hydrophobic coating—only readable when it rains. The work transforms weather into a delivery mechanism, making timing and context inseparable from meaning. It asks what insights only appear when conditions change.
A large group gathering designed around a single, non-negotiable constraint: no one is allowed to speak. By removing the most obvious tool for connection, the event forces participants to invent new ways of engaging—through movement, shared tasks, and attention. The experiment explores how constraints don't limit creativity; they concentrate it.
A poem created by physically removing language from a preexisting text, leaving only what insists on remaining. Meaning is shaped through subtraction rather than addition. The work treats erasure not as loss, but as a method for clarity. Experience it here. (4 min)
