I am an internationally recognized transdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher and educator. 

My projects function as imagined propositions, narrative proposals, or as alternate or future histories that subvert the unseen technological forces in the world around us. If we consider a datacenter a world in itself; a space wherein the infrastructure of our server network lies exposed, imaginatively interrogating this space might expose our shifting role as creators, consumers and – at times – unwitting victims of technology.

We might discover an increasingly blurred border between organic and telematic boundaries, and exploiting the play between the two realms may reveal a new kind of wilderness – a magical hybrid of electronic and organic – that passes right beneath our feet.

My work is often based both in and outside of reality, using stories or narrative to aid reflection, focusing on the social, cultural, ecological, and psychological implications of science and technology. Using digital, analog, and biological elements, I create worlds that allow physical and virtual, natural and artificial, and real and imagined to playfully and poetically co-exist. Within these narratives, I question where the natural world ends and the technological world begins. I examine the consequences of technological infrastructure; how does the natural world adapt? Is it possible for nature and technology to exist symbiotically? My work is research-based and often site-specific, spanning public art, conceptual narrative proposals, book works, exhibitions, and interactive sculpture/installation. I frequently officially and unofficially collaborate with scientists, engineers, biologists, entomologists, wildlife experts, writers, philosophers, robotic engineers, oceanographers, and most importantly long term collaborations with fellow creatives.

Whether creating a surveillance system for a school of fish, or a tidal monitoring sign for a creek bed, I use my work to provocatively critique our relationship with the typically siloed natural and technological worlds and to speculate about what could be. My process demands an ability to adapt to varying forms of investigation, communities and outcomes; materials play a vital role in the success of the work, through the development of each unique project, the rationale to use specific materials, tools, and technologies evolves.

After graduating from the Royal College of Art 1997, I became a founding partner of Kitchen-Rogers Design (1997–2004) with clients such as Comme des Garçons, (Paris); Science Museum (London). I continue to practice both independently and collaboratively with long-term partners across various disciplines.

Works include: DataNature, Permanent collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Electroplex Heights, commissioned by Vitra Design foundation; Other Days, Other Eyes for Bits and Atoms, Dilalica Gallery, Barcelona, Spain also exhibited at ISEA, Barcelona, Spain and Purchased by Andreu Rodriguez Valveny & Marie-France Veyrat’ for Beep Collection; Another Twilight Zone for Schmidt Ocean Institute, exhibited at UN Ocean Conference, Lisbon & Seattle; Landscape, Jikji Korea International Festival: Dreamings FIDS public artwork, San Jose Airport, CA; HighLow Public Artwork for Deptford Creek, London.

I have held prominent teaching and research positions for example, Stanford’s Institute for Creativity and the Arts, CA involving a Robotics Research Lab with Graduate engineering students in collaboration with Roboticist Bill Smart of Willow Garage; Associate Professor, CADRE (Experimental Media Program), San Jose State University, CA; Adjunct Faculty, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Researcher, Center for Advanced Visualization and Interaction, Aarhus, Denmark; Faculty in Design Products, Royal College of Art, London; Research Fellow, Computer Related Design, Royal College of Art, London;

From 2014 to 2024, I served as Chair of the Digital + Media MA Program at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, where, in 2014, I founded Techlands Research Studio. Works aid reflection, focusing on the social, cultural, ecological, and psychological implications of science and technology. Since summer of 2024, I have served as a full professor of Art & Design at the Free University of Bolzano in Italy.

I have undertaken residencies such as Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Artist-at-Sea Program – an expeditionary residency that pairs artists with ocean scientists and engineers aboard an oceanographic research vessel; Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Merritt Island, FL; Montalvo Arts Center, as part of the Zero 1/ISEA festival; Peaked Hill Trust Arts and Science Program residency, historic dune shacks Cape Cod National Seashore, among others.

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