I love working with technology, but I find most of the tech systems in our lives to be too complex. I build simple systems.

My art is about distilling the experience of artistic creation down to something a robot could arguably enjoy. There are plenty of robots out there generating art for humans, so I want to try giving my machines their own voice.

I have been writing and making art about this theme since I was young. I got my undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 (studying the epistemology of AI), and my graduate degree in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 2009 (building machines and teaching computer science). I am extremely grateful for my education and all the incredible people I met during those years.

I moved to New York in 2009 and worked for various artists and art-adjacent organizations until 2015, when I began working full-time on American Cyborg.

I think a lot about my experience and presence online, and how being online affects me. I’ve been here since the ‘90s, and I find the persistent, pervasive hostility to woman extremely tiring. I’ve signed up for and abandoned dozens of social media sites over the years; I’ve decided to go back to my roots and just publish a personal site instead. I encourage everyone to do the same.