digital anthropologist + strategist + curator
Founder & Director, Silicon Valet
Co-director, TRANSFER Gallery
Associate Curator, Gray Area
Curated Projects
March 2024
New commission of immersive machinima music video installation, fashion collection, and performance by Skawennati at Gray Area, with support from a Hewlett 50 Media Commissions Award.
January 2024
Debut solo exhibition of artist DELTA_ARK in Gray Area's Gallery, featuring real-time interactive simulation work, "Binah: Forms for Wisdom" (2023).
January 2024
View Finder: Speculative Simulation Films
Screening program featuring simulation-based art films by Alice Bucknell and Lawrence Lek at Gray Area.
October 2023
Conference program, performance series, and physical exhibition of accessible prototypes and blockchain experiments for the occasion of the 2023 edition of Gray Area's annual art & technology festival.
AAMC award-winning exhibition curated by Tina Rivers Ryan and Paul Vanouse, which traveled to Gray Area as part of a West Coast tour.
March 2023
Survey exhibition of eleven works by media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Gray Area, San Francisco.
October 2022
Conference program, performance series, and online exhibition curated for the occasion of the 2022 edition of Gray Area's annual art & technology festival.
August 2022
Debut exhibition of historic media art collective FELT Zine, presented as the inaugural exhibition in the new Gray Area Gallery, San Francisco.
December 2021
Group exhibition curated by Patrick Lichty at NeMe Arts Center in Limassol, Cyprus.
October 2021
Conference program, performance series, and online exhibition curated for the occasion of the 2021 edition of Gray Area's annual art & technology festival. Virtual exhibition hosted by New Art City.
April 2021
Group exhibition curated for TRANSFER Gallery. Rapid-response to and critical examination of the NFT explosion of early 2021.
September 2020
Online exhibition of work by Most Dismal Swamp, presented in collaboration with New Art City. Virtual installation in a custom immersive, 3D environment that features multi-user functionality.
April 2020
Online exhibition responding to COVID-19 conditions for Silicon Valet. Co-curated with Faith Holland & Lorna Mills. Exhibition design & installation by Kelani Nichole. With exhibition essay by Seth Barry Watter.
February 2020
Screening program & augemented reality filter selection presented by TRANSFER Gallery in partnership with the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City.
November 2019
Too Beautiful To Be Real
Virtual pavilion of The Wrong Biennale. Co-curated with Pita Arreola-Burns and Elliott Burns for Off Site Project.
July 2019
Special presentation of net art work by Petra Cortright, organized for Off Site Project's micro-ZIP file exhibition format.
June 2019
Special presentation of work by artists in the Clusterduck Collective, organized for Off Site Project's micro-ZIP file exhibition format.
May 2019
Special presentation of LaTurbo Avedon's In-Game Images for Off Site Project's micro-ZIP file exhibition format
May 2019
E-mail-based exhibition of work by Adonis Archontides for Curated by Lolita
January 2019
Inaugural exhibition of the UCL Multimedia Anthropology Laboratory
November 2018
Exhibition of avatar artists hosted by isthisit?
March 2018
Downloadable micro-ZIP file exhibition hosted by Off Site Project.
Talks, Lectures, & Interviews
February 2024
Commentary given to the New York Times on the occasion of the release of Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth.
February 2024
Talk delivered as part of gnration's alt.history series, curated by Holo.
September 2023
Experiencing the Virtual: Creating for Shared Phenomenology
Lecture delivered to Wild Residency artist cohort.
June 2023
Interview given to Right Click Save As and JPG on decentralized curatorial practice.
November 2022
Interview given to Holo.
March 2022
Lecture and panel delivered on the occasion of Human Technology Futures' Critical Data Futures Conference at UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society.
December 2021
Lecture at NeMe in Cyprus delivered on the occasion of Through the Mesh, a group exhibition curated by Patrick Lichty & assisted by Wade Wallerstein.
April 2021
Lecture given as part of the Full Spectrum Curatorship Conference, organized by IMPAKT.
May 2020
Interview given to De:Formal Gallery.
May 2020
Curating the Digital 2.0: Online Exhibiting in an Age of 'Net Art Revival'
Lecture delivered at the Royal College of Art's Contemporary Art Practice (Moving Image, Performance, Critical Practice and Public Sphere) Program.
April 2020
The Artist Is Online: Silicon Valet
Curators' talk on the occasion of Silicon Valet's inagural online exhibition 'Well Now WTF?' with Anika Meier at Koenig Galerie.
February 2020
Screening program and talk with Kelani Nichole at Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City. Presented by TRANSFER Gallery.
September 2019
Live conversation with Cassie McQuater on the occasion of the opening of her solo exhibition, Black Room, at TRANSFER Gallery.
March 2019
Two-part video lecture series commissioned by Arebyte Gallery for the launch of their online video channel, Arebyte-on-Screen. Watch part II here.
December 2018
Lecture delivered as part of the UCL Multimedia Anthropology Laboratory's fall 2018 seminar series.
Education
2018
University College London
Msc Digital Anthropology​ (First)
Dissertation: Circumventing the White Cube: Digital Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Media Landscapes
2017
Sarah Lawrence College
BA, Concentration in Digital Media & Art History (Honors)
Editor, Sarah Lawrence Visual Art Review
King's College London
BA Digital Culture (First)