Communications Design
BIFROST As a content creator for Bifrost, I develop copy, create social media campaigns, and produce and curate material for the online platform, including infographics, maps, science videos, data visualizations, podcasts, presentations, image galleries, footprint calculators, scientific reports, open learning MOOCs, SDG trackers and climate toolkits. I also oversee the design and layout of all… Continue reading
Cultural Institutions & Art Spaces
GIGANTIC ARTSPACE (GAS) As Founding Executive Director of GAS, I established a prestigious Manhattan exhibition venue producing contemporary exhibition, music, performance, films, CDs, DVDs, Books and catalogues. I crafted the mission, curated exhibitions, happenings, screenings and large public events. I managed staff and oversaw the budget. As the public face of organization, I designed press,… Continue reading
Publishing
As an Executive Producer for Simon & Schuster’s Interactive Division in New York, I produced CD-ROM and DVD titles in education, music (MTV), science, reference and gaming. I hired talent and directed audio and video content used for online channels and interactive media and supervised animation, narration, and development of product material. I oversaw project… Continue reading
Urban Interaction Design, Open & Agile Smart Cities
Our cities are laced with sensors and mobile technologies that are generating a myriad of urban informatics experiences and relationships between urban interaction design, participatory and smart urbanism, open innovation, and the Digital Right to the City. UrbanIxD (urban interaction design) was a two-year European project that built a research network around the domain of… Continue reading
Festivals & Events
As Director of Media Programs at the Center for Peace and Human Security, I organized and promoted a large-scale, multi-venue New York media festival, including curating numerous public events, panels and film screenings about conflict transformation, human rights, and international justice. I have also provided the host venue and curated programming for independent journalists and… Continue reading
Documentaries & Oral Histories
I previously directed and produced an oral histories and award-winning documentary film project about ethnic minorities in Burma that was subsequently screened for the United States Congress. I have produced numerous oral histories projects internationally, including in post-conflict zones in Central and South America and Asia. This work strictly adheres to standard oral histories guidelines… Continue reading
Contemporary Art
I have a strong profile as a curator of contemporary and new media art and performance and have curated numerous exhibitions involving avant-garde time-based media, performance, sound art, installation, film, happenings and events. I have worked with a wide range of artists and take a unique curatorial approach to contemporary exhibition practices. A large part… Continue reading
Videography & Mediascapes
As an independent producer, I have been hired to shoot photo, film and video for Sonic Youth, Television, Stereolab, Eddie Vetta, Cat Power, Wilco, Destroy All Monsters, Aphex Twin, Cecil Taylor, Lydia Lunch, and poet John Sinclair (MC5). I also shot footage at All Tomorrow’s Parties music festivals. I have collaborated with New York artists Kristen… Continue reading
Sound & Performance
I have performed and toured with Emergency Broadcast Network, produced interactive sound performance with various New York sound artists, curated experimental sound and media performance for the Bleecker St. Theater, and was a regular guest on WPS1 radio.
Post-Production
As Executive Director of the former New York post-production facility, Harmonic Ranch, I worked with a diverse group of artists and organizations such as John Cage, Christian Marclay, Zeena Parkins, Jem Cohen, Wooster Group, Dia Foundation, MOMA, New Museum, The Audubon Society, Young Artists New York, and others.
Media & Installation
As a former installation and media artist, my practice focuses on issues relating to human and environmental security. Rather than engaging in a particular process of production, my work relies on interactions that aimed to create social and/or political change through collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutions. I co-create work through participating in critical interventions… Continue reading
DJ School
I co-founded Rocinha Media School, a free, non-profit media project located inside the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro. RMS is a venue where favela residents who otherwise most likely could not participate in any media enrichment programming. RMS hosts the SPIN ROCINHA DJ program, which promotes free expression of music, including funk carioca. RMS… Continue reading