Deleted World Tarot is an illustration project begun in 2020. Many influences went into this deck, from emerging technologies and internet cultures, to occult histories and tarot illustrations past.

The early days of the internet seemed to offer a utopian promise of unlimited connection and community. Yet these visions of better worlds have faded into our current disinformation era of cyber superstitions and data-driven oppression. In both of these failed utopian visions — religious and digital — something was lost along the way. A choice was made. A world was deleted.

The Deleted World Tarot is a tool for healing the rift between the choices of the past and the consequential loss of alternative futures. A tool and a story told out of order and out of time, it's a hope that illuminates the worlds we lose by the choices we make every day, and a call to consider what is worth saving. What is not saved will be lost.

if you go_say hello was conceived as a memorial project in collaboration with The New School Center for Policy in Space for the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.

The project comprises an AI trained on the collected writing of a recently deceased poet which was attached to a commercial satellite and sent into space. Twice a day, visitors to a web portal received transmissions from the satellite of writings produced by the AI circling the planet. Over time the small computer housing the AI slowly corrupted due to electromagnetic radiation. The twice-daily transmissions slowly shifted from legible text to strange sentences, to random characters and eventually, total cessation of communication.

The collected writings including the corrupted transmissions were bound and distributed as a memento mori at the funeral of the poet. if you go_say hello is a meditation on loss, the physics of death, and the transformation of data across space and time.

The name of the deceased and the subsequent writing have remained private out of respect for the family's wishes. Sponsored by The New School Center for Space Policy for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.

The Night Air is a collaborative poem composed by visitors to thenightair.com during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020.

Miasma, a now disbanded medical term originating in the middle ages, was once thought to be the root cause of plagues. Also known as "the night air," Miasma suggested that bad air spread illness. COVID-19, ironically, is a disease spread through the air.

The Night Air is a place to record personal experiences during this pandemic through a single collective poem, revealing our shifting moods and varying perspectives across the world.

Sponsored by a grant from the Houston Arts Alliance.

thisObituaryDoesNotExist comprises a physical and digital collection of obituaries generated by two artificial neural networks. StyleGAN and GPT-2 are shown images and text from publicly available online obituaries, then asked to imagine new ones — generating infinitely many photographs, death narratives, and life stories for persons who never existed.

The physical exhibition consists of funeral pamphlets indistinguishable from those for physical persons. The digital website generates a new obituary each time the page is refreshed.

Premiered at Chandler Center for the Arts, 2019.

{i keep my frankenstein in a jar}

2020 — A perpetual code and sound animation. Commissioned for Tele Magazine.

Extinction

2018 — Words by Elizabeth Lyons.

The Wild Iris

2017 — Words by Louise Glück. Inspired by Burn by Darcy Rosenburger.