Digital Humanities
Book of Hours
2024
Book of Hours explores the relationship between time, attention, and creativity. Users can select a frequency to receive either short, gnomic prompts or jokes throughout the day. These periodic interruptions are designed to disrupt habitual thought patterns and encourage users to reflect on time's structure, elasticity, and relation to the creative process, or in the case of jokes, provide a quick laugh. Users are prompted to write a quick diary entry recording their thoughts about the prompt or joke. These are saved on the user's device for later review.
Puzzlee (prototype)
2023
Puzzlee is a limited-choice game that uses images of artworks within the public domain. Players reveal one square at a time and attempt to guess the name of the artist/creator in fewer than six turns. It promotes visual literacy and connoisseurship through an accessible format.
ArtWars (prototype)
2022
Simulated art market. With Pinky Yuen and Taylor Lovell. Art Wars is a prototype. It is a browser-based, advanced-level simulation game exploring the secondary art market. Players are art flippers and navigate provenance disputes, market fluctuations, and the impact of forgeries on the market. The game simulates the operations of legal loopholes, such as untraceable transactions, guaranteed sales via irrevocable bids, auction-house loans against artwork, and tax avoidance strategies facilitated by freeports or the display of a work ‘in public’ for a minimum period. Through gamification, Art Wars reveals how legal gray areas shape the culture industry. A full app version is in development.
Roadside Photography
2021
Roadside Photography is an interactive map built from 11,710 photographs in the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive at the Library of Congress. Users re-organize the data through a variety of filters: year, subject, location, etc. The map repopulates with each new selection to visually reveal patterns in Margolies’s travels and aesthetic interests. It also demonstrates the changes in the American roadside from 1970 to 2008. The project opens the archive in a new and creative way via an interactive, research-driven interface.
Expensive Taste
2021
Expensive Taste transforms historic art auction data into a “this or that” game. Players choose which artwork fetched the higher hammer price, encouraging reflection on the monetization of art within a global economy and alongside rising inequality and deregulation. It challenges players to consider factors influencing the market value of artworks within a global arena, thus connecting abstract concepts with real-world events.
AskRedditButAI
2020
AskRedditButAI is a website and an AI Reddit and Twitter personality. It comprises 84,781 questions generated by a GPT-2 model trained on over 7000 AskReddit posts. This website presents a selection of 25 questions each day. You can upvote or downvote each question. Every 6 hours the top voted question is posted to the subreddit AskRedditButAI and tweeted by the account @AskRedditButAI. Engage with, answer, and/or critique the questions on Reddit and Twitter.
The Indexical (in progress)
Presently being built / forthcoming approximately 2027
Surveilling the surveillers - watching the watchers
