An exploration through how machines dance with the agency of people, nature and other machines.

My practice pursues an algorithmic trajectory that mangles the authorship of experimental computer code with the manipulation of readymade objects and the pairing of unconventional processes with everyday materials. Microwave ovens modified to function only when their doors are open and vinyl records transformed and integrated into autonomous musical instruments are synonymous within my practice. I deliberately fabricate intricate sonic, visual, and kinetic assemblages that destabilise accepted customs and provoke critical reflection on machanic agency.


A Thousand Words is Worth a Picture So Take a Photo 2025

A homage to spaces, tabs and indents.
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Scribbly Gum Moth 2025

Where arcade gaming meets nature through code-poetry.
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Self Portrait in ASCII 2024

Standing back, you get the picture; up close it is a different story.
p/o Coded Embroidery Series
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I am a humanist and so is my computer 2024

The story of a computer program attaining self-actualisation.
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Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate 2024

Where tactile analogue actions meet digital processing.
p/o Coded Embroidery Series
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Resonance Within A Glitch Field 2025

Within a rhizomic environment, players maintain their own agency and produce moments of spontaneous synchronicity.
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[Home][Sweet][Home] 2024

White-On-White
p/o Coded Embroidery Series
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Silicon Chips and Wire 2024

AI generated poem
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Personal Information Agent 2022I used to be a very private person, most likely because I did not know myself that well, then I discovered the internet.
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Steam Clocks 2020 && 2023

In a time when the wait is not just worth it, the wait is all there is.
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Sound Bulbs 2021

Memories, captures and rehashes overlayed to make total sense.
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Actuality No. 2 2018

Actually never mind.
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Mean-Meaning-Meaningful 2017-18

Struggles in commuication as explained by a hammer and some nails performing morse code
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Vinylin 2017

A turntable for vinyl records that plays a violin
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Double Bind 2017

A double bind labrynth
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Experimental Soundscapes
Various experimental sound and noise artworks.
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Experimental Camera Drawings
Experimental Camera Drawings
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Varying combinations of methods, procedures, computer code, electronics, hand stitching and bespoke forms of reproduction are used throughout my practice.
I work with mechanical and computer assistants and thank Microsoft Copilot for the help it offered in the phrasing of my artist statement and some of the text used in my artworks.”

A Thousand Words…, 2025

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