An All-Around Better Horse

An illustrated essay that reimagines design and engineering processes through the transformative power of AI.

Authoring Creativity With AI

An interview on AI tool development.

AI and the Decoupling of Creation & Comprehension

A talk investigating the implications of a new creative force that is not constrained by tradition or historical progress.

Integrating Design and Technical Innovation in AI-First Products

A talk that explores AI-First product development and the role of design in shaping emerging technologies.

Adobe's AI-First Approach to Product Vision

Big Data, Big Design

An interview from Helen Armstrong's Big Data, Big Design on the role of AI in human-led creative processes.

Machine Learning Has Already Transformed the Design Profession

An article by Helen Armstrong exploring themes from her book Big Data, Big Design, to which I contributed my perspective.

Neural Filters for Adobe Photoshop

Neural Filters is a new workspace inside Photoshop that introduces non-destructive filters powered by artificial intelligence to help you explore creative ideas in seconds.

Against Prediction: Designing Uncertain Tools

An interview with Elvia Wilk about Adobe Machine Intelligence Design and the future of artificial intelligence in creative tools.

How Flexible AI Systems Will Lead to Inclusive AI

An interview with Bill Reeve about the democratization of AI.

Learning to Educate Machines

An article investigating the role of education and culture in the creation of intelligence.

Contemporary Machine Learning Systems

Found in Translation

An article by Olivia Goldhill on the connection between machine learning and Wittgenstein's theory of language, to which I contributed my perspective.

A Unified Tool for the Education of Humans and Machines

An article investigating how software development tools can better accommodate the experiential nature of both human and machine learners.

Embracing artificial intelligence in architecture

An article by Kathleen M. O'Donnell investigating AI's impact on architectural practice, to which I contributed my perspective.

Rethinking Design Tools in the Age of Machine Learning

An article investigating how machine learning and artificial intelligence will bring about a new generation of design tools that learn from and adapt to the user's way of thinking.

Rethinking Production Tools

A course dedicated to researching and developing new production tools for digital media.

Machine Learning for Designers

A monograph that introduces contemporary machine learning systems and provides a conceptual framework to help designers integrate machine learning into their work.

Creative Partnerships

A webcast exploring how machine learning will transform the next generation of computing interfaces.

Machine Learning & Improvisation

A philosophical exploration of machine learning and concept representation in the human mind.

Guiding Principles for Design Tools

A series of principles to guide the design of design tools.

Learning Machines

A course introducing machine learning techniques, their underlying theory and relevance to creative applications.

Exploring Ideas with Code

A two-day workshop exploring the use of technology in elementary classrooms.

Design Tool Studio

A course focused on software-based toolmaking as an artistic practice in its own right.

Evolution as a Creative Tool

A course on genetic algorithms and self-organizing systems from the perspectives of software architecture and user-interface design.

The Art of Graphics Programming

A course on graphics programming techniques and their place in art and film history.

The Art of Graphics Programming: Evolution of the Medium

A visual essay about computer graphics, design tools and representation in general.

Foil Design Software

A design and programming environment that aims to extend the creative reach of its user through the assistive capacities of machine learning.

Foil: A Three-Dimensional Design Sketchbook

A study of digital design tools and a retrospective of my early work on the Foil Design Environment.

Arrow: Proposal for a Design Tool Incorporating a Genetic Algorithm Mark-up Language

Precursor to work on Foil.

Arrow: Genetic Algorithms & Self-Organizing Maps in Computer-Aided Design

Early sketches for a design tool incorporating genetic algorithms and self-organizing maps. Precursor to work on Foil.

Digitalis & DEcomp

A short film and a three-dimensional modeling tool for composing forced-perspective scenes. Precursor to later work on the Foil Design Environment.

ITP Student Work

A collection of projects from my time as a graduate student at NYU/ITP.

Deus Ex Machina: The Myth of Complete Representation

An investigation of physics, computational models and the limits of photographic representation.

Child's Play: Why Michael Bay's Transformers Is Less Than Meets The Eye

A critical look at the vicarious (dis)pleasures of a toy turned blockbuster.

The Photo-Icon: Artistic Representation in the Cinematic Medium of Digital Effects

A semiological study of digital special effects as an artistic medium.

Mattes for an Action Film

A 16mm film investigating cinematic space, texture and light.

Everything Must Be Given Back

A series of 16mm film studies.

Both Sides Now: Bruce Conner's Crossroads & Heide Fasnacht's Explosion

An investigation of the spatial and temporal depiction of explosions in avant-garde cinema and sculpture.

Interview with Heide Fasnacht

An interview with the sculptor Heide Fasnacht.

Death Cloud

Early special effects film.

Childhood Work

A sample of work from ages five to thirteen, primarily focused on virtual reality headset prototypes.