As the choreographer William Forsythe has insisted, "if dance only does what we assume it can do, it will expire."
My work brings that belief into our embodied encounters with new media and technology. I work with artists, dancers, scholars, technologists, makers, and musicians to understand how we might live and move in a technologically mediated world with humor, grace, creativity, and care.
I write, organize, curate, and teach about new and old media, cultural history and philosophy of technology, design, disability, cities, literature, comics, animation, sound, circuses and more. I am Director of Programs at Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology. I earned a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. At Stanford, I was a Geballe Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, where I also led the Graphic Narrative Project. I've also served as a lecturer in Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts and lead curator with CODAME Art & Tech.