About

I use technology and embodied play to awaken our hard-wired human capacity for cooperation, rebuild the foundations of social connection, and create experiences of awe.

This is the work I’m meant to do. Everything I've done to this point has led me here. I started out as a fine artist, creating installations as part of the collaborative Leone & Macdonald, then pivoted into digital and founded a creative studio.

Then I fell in love with brain science, and specifically neuroplasticity: the brain's ability to create new connections. I found the optimism embedded in this scientific truth electric: if we can change our brains, we can change our lives.

I set out to understand, and then create, the conditions for human flourishing. Human connection is essential to flourishing, and technology increasingly shapes how we connect. How might we reimagine the human-machine relationship as a prosocial force?

In search of expertise and creative partnership, I began a multi-year collaboration with UK-based neuroscientists. From this emerged Synch.Live: immersive art that activates our capacity for collective emergence and offers a new paradigm for scientific research.

Teaching & Learning

I was an adjunct professor and visiting critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego. I have been a visiting artist at many universities, including MIT, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Brown University, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

I studied Semiotics and English and American Literature at Brown University, Art at California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. I'm a certified community mediator in New York.