Hi! I’m an experience designer, strategist, curator, and internet researcher.
I love connecting internet-driven insights to real-world phenomena, facilitating workshops and events, designing user tests, and solving problems related to spatial/systems design.
CURRENT: A little of everything for Rhizome.org of New Museum + Researching the rhythmic patterns of group chats for a trust.support grant
PAST CLIENTS:
Nike, Chanel, Brookfield Properties. Tiffany & Co, Petco, Rogers/FIDO, Caesar’s Entertainment & Casinos, JDS Development Group, MLB, Modelorama, Chick-fil-a, Triple Five Group, Citi Bank
EDUCATION
2013 - 2018: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Electronic Media Arts and Communication - Storytelling
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Community Designer & Strategist
Rhizome / New Museum
2022 - Current
Rhizome is a non-profit institution that has defined internet art and it’s role in broader culture, and developed tools and methodology for artistic preservation on the internet. My role here is experimental. I primarily work on a combination of research related to networked community and social facilitation. I work on programming, curation, events, and relationships with our ever-growing interconnected
web of artists, inventors, and experimenters.
Strategist & Experience Design CallisonRTKL
2018 - 2022
As an experience designer & strategist for CallisonRTKL,
I worked primarily as a researcher, facilitator, and contributor to creative direction. I’ve worked on projects varying from city and transit design to luxury retail and hospitality. I often was involved in designing internal strategies for pitching to clients, as well as onboarding various teams and staff to ‘forward-facing’ technologies and ideas.
Branding - Triple Five Group
2017
I was initially contacted by the Senior Director of Marketing of Fourpost ( A retail concept started by Mark Ghermezian of Triple Five Group ) to help transition their brand in a full redesign [From RAAS to Fourpost] The position primarily involved translating their brand guidelines into : Large scale teaser graphics, opening day marketing strategy/interactive design/printed handouts, tote-bags, t-shirts, vinyl preparation, copywriting, illustration and icons, business suite (cards + letterhead), etc.
Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications - 2014-2016
A NSF funded Engineering Research Center. I assisted with designing promotional materials, documented faculty research for archives and presentation with video, photography, and illustration. Photographed events. Filmed and edited promotional video for national funding renewal.
Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications 2014-2016
A NSF funded Engineering Research Center. I assisted with designing promotional materials, documented faculty research for archives and presentation with video, photography, and illustration. Photographed events. Filmed and edited promotional video for national funding renewal.
RECENT PROGRAMMING
Various Workshops
Workshops organized with organizations such as rhizome.org, trust.support, and onassis foundation. An example of one of the most recent programs: “Signal Representation for Artists with Max Ardito”
Cinema of Transmission
A 3-part screening series reflecting the past and futures of internet-inspired cinema.
Lurking on Lurkers within Knowledge Transfer Ecosystems
Rhizome’s Microgrants Program
SKILLS
Internet Knowledge (Dark Web, Subcultures, Fediverse, etc.)
Figma / Sketch / XD
Adobe Creative Suite
Video Editing Tools
Basic HTML/CSS
Basic Python/Visual Basic
Basic Maya/Sketchup/Rhino
Basic HTML/CSS
Basic Unreal Engine
Social Media
ML / AI Tools