Statement
 

My practice explores the intertwining of language, technology, and history, highlighting the contemporary impact, cultural influence, aesthetic qualities, and combinatorial properties of poetry, code, data, electronics, and computer interfaces.

I consider language to be the most sophisticated form of technology that we have ever created. Language is the operative system of our thoughts, memories, cognitive abilities, and behaviors. It organizes every single aspect of our lives and civilization, carrying the information that is transmitted and stored from generation to generation. In this sense, we can say that human life is built on language. Language is also the foundation for instructing, controlling, and interacting with technology, serving as the required means to communicate commands and information to machines. Along with language, history offers the vital context for understanding who we are, where we come from, and where we might be headed.

From there, I've been able to develop playful, discerning, and poetic experiences, including interactive poetry generators, political/philosophical installations and video games, as well as site-responsive architectural projects that blend the past with the present. One of my firmest convictions is that poetry transforms objects into art in the same way that it converts noise into music. The relation poem-object that I have laid out seeks to redefine the role of the poet and subvert how we experience written language in our time.

Poetry is disruptive. It can slip under the radar to question the status quo without explicitly stating opposition. This inherent condition of poetry led me to repurpose outdated technologies, but also to devise works and actions that show the vulnerability of governments, corporations, institutions and public figures. As a result, the hidden layers of control and surveillance that shape our interactions with the digital and physical world are publicly exposed.

Just as poetry distills complex emotions and ideas into a few carefully chosen words, my practice seeks to distill the complex forces of power, control, and resistance into interactive, immersive experiences that challenge both the viewer and the systems at play. As we continue to live in an increasingly mediated, algorithmic world, it is more essential than ever to question, reinterpret, and reshape the tools we use to communicate, understand, and define our reality.