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            Dying is Interactive
            • May 1, 2020

            Dying is Interactive

            Overview My MFA thesis project - Dying is Interactive - is the culmination of a three-year investigation into the absence of death-salien...
            X is for Dog
            • May 1, 2020

            X is for Dog

            X is for Dog is a creative experiment in which I use Digital Humanities-adjacent tools and techniques to assemble, probe, manipulate, and vi
            Coastal Senior Cohousing
            • Dec 1, 2019

            Coastal Senior Cohousing

            Coastal Senior Cohousing is a critical proposal, born out of a futurecasting exercise, for a digital real estate system that enables boomers
            SmartPope + Neurohelper
            • Oct 1, 2019

            SmartPope + Neurohelper

            SmartPope + Neurohelper is a farcical design fiction about a family and how they use two smart devices (the SmartPope and the Neurohelper, r
            SmartThing Generator
            • Oct 1, 2019

            SmartThing Generator

            The SmartThing Generator is somewhere in between being a game and an ideation exercise. It’s a future-building activity that uses a cyclical
            Sunshine Superfood
            • May 1, 2019

            Sunshine Superfood

            Sunshine Superfood is a chatbot designed and run by tycoons in the superfood industry with stakes in four subsidiaries
            Echo
            • May 1, 2019

            Echo

            Echo is an immersive aesthetic experience for people with dementia. It builds on existing occupational therapy technologies by incorporating
            Empathy Translator
            • May 1, 2019

            Empathy Translator

            The Empathy Translator is a machine learning prototype for an imagined tablet application used by healthcare professionals to view and maint
            Ren + Bacon
            • May 1, 2019

            Ren + Bacon

            Ren and Bacon is a generative adversarial neural network (GAN) that trains on digitally collaged images and generates new image content that
            Pleasurescapes
            • Dec 1, 2018

            Pleasurescapes

            Pleasurescapes imagines a set of sensory accessories connecting the pleasure obtained from online content by complementing it with a tangibl
            Tierras Cuerpas
            • Dec 1, 2018

            Tierras Cuerpas

            The City of Tierras Cuerpas ("earth bodies") is a critical response to mainstream cultural behaviors surrounding death, and particularly how
            Touchbase
            • May 1, 2018

            Touchbase

            Touchbase is a prototype for investigating potential avenues for technological intervention of domestic violence and femicide in Mexico City
            How Do You Want to Die?
            • May 1, 2018

            How Do You Want to Die?

            I think the question, “How do you want to die?” is exactly as sensible as “What do you want to be when you grow up?” While the latter gets
            CBT Generator
            • Dec 1, 2017

            CBT Generator

            The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Generator is intended to serve as a kind of psychological mirror or self-therapy device integrated within t
            Memento Mori Parlor Wall
            • Dec 1, 2017

            Memento Mori Parlor Wall

            The Memento Mori Parlor Wall enables users to virtually exhibit the lives of their deceased loved ones like works of fine art or museum arti
            I'll Miss You in Advance
            • Dec 1, 2016

            I'll Miss You in Advance

            I'll Miss You in Advance is an inconclusive reflection on end-of-life issues, quality-of-life issues, and the magical properties of our belo
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