I am an experience designer and maker, with a focus on narrative-rich, architectural-scale responsive environments.
My passion lies in developing experiences that foster connections among people, and are deeply authentic: to the content they present, to the institution they’re a part of, to the audiences they address, and to their place in a visitor’s journey.
I speak regularly at conferences (though prefer to lead workshops!), and am adjunct faculty at the New School and New York University. I live in Brooklyn with my wife, kids, cat, and oodles of books and records.
Current &
Past Clients
Museum & Non-Profit
Arts Brookfield
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Chimney Rock Visitor Center
The Climate Museum
Folger Shakespeare Library
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
The Henry Ford Museum
of American Innovation
The Henry Street Settlement
Independence Seaport Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Municipal Art Society of New York
Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of the Moving Image
NASA
National Building Museum
National History Museum of Los Angeles County
& La Brea Tar Pits
The North Carolina Museum of History
The Presidio of San Francisco
The Royal Ontario Museum
The Smithsonian Latino Center
Type Directors Club
The Whitney Museum of Art
Zer01 Biennial
Corporate
Brickstone Realty
Comcast
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Eko
Intel
Jetblue
New York Magazine
Spotify
Viacom
Zoom
Lectures, Teaching & Publications
Lectures
2023, MCN, Lecture, “Making High-Tech Magic with Low-Tech Materials”
2023, SEGD X-Lab, Lecture and Panel, “Metamorphosis: The 81st Street Studio”
2022, IxDA Conference - Lecture, “Beyond (and Towards) Pure Spectacle”
2021, ASTC Conference - Lecture, “Visitor-Facing Prototypes as a Process”
2021, Philadelphia Arts Business Council - Lecture,
“AR: Why/Now”
2021, MCN Conference - Lecture, “Can’t Touch This: the Promise and Perils of Gestural Interaction”
2020, MCN Conference - Lecture, “Curator Brain, Meet AI Brain”
2018, MCN Conference - Lecture, “Prototyping Innovation: Iterative Digital Transformation at The Henry Ford”
2018, Museums & the Web Conference - Workshop, “Sketching in Spaces: Low-Tech Prototypes for High-Tech Projects”
2015, College for Creative Studies - Lecture and Workshop, “Don’t Overthink It”,
2015, Gel Conference - Lecture and Installation, “Mass Collaboration”,
2015, Iowa State University - Lecture and Workshop, “Prototyping with Projection”,
2012, New York University - Lecture, “People + Computers + Cameras”
Guest Lecturer / Presenter: School for the Art Institute of Chicago, Parsons School for Constructed Environments, School of Visual Arts, Iowa State University, North Carolina State University, College for Creative Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art, Fast Company Innovation Festival, SxSW, Creative Tech Week, UCDA
Publications
Cultural Futures - “Be a River Character” Case Study
MuseumNext - Article, “Making the Most of NFTs Without Pressing ‘Mint’”
Fast Company - Contributor, “These four brilliant ideas would make Zoom work a lot better”
2019, FWA - Featured Interview
2017, Laplaca Cohen Culture Track - Contributor
2013, PSFK “Future of Light” Report, Contributor
Teaching
2013 - 2017 Adjunct Faculty, The New School
2013 - "Digital Design Environments", MFA School for Constructed Environments
2014 - "Spacebrew: Prototyping the Future of Interactive Spaces", MFA Design and Technology
2015-17 - "Interactive Spaces: Bridging Technology and Architecture," MFA Design and Technology
2013 - 2017 Adjunct Faculty, New York University
2013 - “Spatial Media”, ITP
2014-16 - "Prototyping Interaction with Spacebrew”, ITP
2015 - Studio Leader, ITP Innovation Lab
2017 - Instructor, "Prototyping Interactive Spaces"
2011, Visiting Faculty, Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design
2011, Organizer + instructor, “Introduction to OpenFrameworks”