Work

art · teaching · public philosophy · tools

Art

Painting, digital processes, pen plotting, image manipulation. The work investigates self-construction: how identity accumulates and erodes, how we know ourselves through relation, what it means to labor toward a self that's never fixed. Systematic processes of addition and subtraction; the surface as a site where identity is made and unmade.

Active Series

epistolary studies

ChatGPT-generated letters to aesthetic thinkers of the past explaining art-on-the-blockchain, digitally manipulated + HP 7475a pen plotter + digital paint

/neg/exists(x)/forall(x)

Reification through Hesiod's Theogony · manipulated iPhone Notes app sketch + pen plotter + digital paint

the problem of the many

Digitally manipulated photograph + gouache + scanning/printing + pen plotter + digital paint

field guides to cloud dissection

Digitally manipulated photograph + HP 7475a pen plotter

joint compound

Digitally manipulated AI output + pen plotter + digital paint

wayfinding

Digitally manipulated photographs of physical paintings + pen plotter + hand painted gouache

Collected internationally. Previous digital work on Foundation · Objkt · Exchange Art


Teaching

Philosophy of Art · Artist Commons · 2025–present

Year-long program for early- and mid-career visual artists. Frameworks for understanding practices; vocabulary to engage with curators, collectors, and institutions.

Ethics · University of Rhode Island · 2017–2023

Senior Lecturer. Taught ethics to hundreds of undergraduates. Designed the Ethics and Big Data public lecture series. Co-designed Ethics Throughout the Curriculum. Faculty Development Affiliate.


Public Philosophy

Philosophers for Sustainability · Co-Founder · 2019

International organization. Wrote the APA Good Practices Guide on sustainability. Led the 2+1 Campaign (675 signatories). Climate work as part of the job, not separate from it.

The UPDirectory · Creator · 2014

Database for finding philosophers from underrepresented backgrounds. Built from scratch as a grad student. Now maintained by the APA.

APA Eastern Division Teaching Hub · Co-Chair · 2022


Technology

dyad · Co-Founder · 2025

AI-facilitated collaboration tools. Betaworks AI Camp finalist.