About
I create installations that provide socio-environmental experiences. My environments are both structural and spatial. I utilize my hands-on skills in furniture design and building, sculpture, interactive design, and music and video production to create installations. Microcomputers within my environments trigger audio, video, and other kinetic elements and create experiences about topics such as fracking, poverty, 3rd shift work, underserved communities, and protecting our clean water.
I want to effect change through art. Susan Stewart talks in “The Poet’s Freedom” of the difference between positive and negative freedom, stating that negative freedom is the freedom to throw off chains or to move away from something oppressive or not ideal. It deals with negative forces and concrete desires. There is also positive freedom, which is freedom to influence our surroundings, rather than to move away from them. It is a more active version of freedom, one of affirmation. I subscribe to affirmation of my place in the world. I have made a conscious decision as an activist, and an artist who chooses to be an activist, to turn towards positive freedom as a maker, and to adopt Stewart’s philosophy which is an extension of Aristotle’s philosophy.
work
Experience
consultant at social sciences consultants
executive producer of national productions at twin cities public television
Director of new business development at wqed multimedia
OWNER AT BLUE LIGHT PRODUCTIONS
Skills
Interests
Installation Art
Furniture Design
TV Production
Music
Sculpture
Environmental Activism
Support of Public Art
Education
MASSACHUSETTS college of art and design
MFA, INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS
Graduated May 2016
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
MS, PHOTOGRAPHIC AND IMAGING SCIENCE
Coursework Completed
Iowa state university
B.S., ENGINEERING OPERATIONS