Artist Talk

I recently gave a talk describing my process at Cove St. Art Gallery in Portland, Maine.

My work engages the problem of designing systems. I find myself writing computer code that outputs sounds or visuals. I am fascinated by the heuristic potentials of generative systems and I depend on being surprised by the traces they leave. I am often inspired by musical processes and processes of human interaction. I notice myself living within systems that I find undesirable. And so, the need for designing systems – analogies to the systems we desire. I want human made systems, rather than system made humans. I am not so concerned with producing images or sounds that I like; my preferences are conditioned by systems already in place. Rather than make the patterns I want, patterns emerge from the systems I want.