I’m a Canadian artist and designer based in Southern California. I explore the architectures we construct, from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds, through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies. My interactive Marching Cubes performances and installations (2016–present) have been featured in Toronto, Montréal, Vancouver, Mexico City, Stockholm, Tehran, and across America. A new suite of kinetic work, The Printers Dance, premiered at Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco and two other venues in Guadalajara in 2024.
My solo exhibitions focus on the places we live, and include Mackenzie Place (PNG, 2023), Suburban Ecologies (Great Park Gallery, 2020), Skip Stop (PNG, 2019), Radiant City (PNG, 2014), Automatic/Revisited (Latitude 44, 2013), Automatic (Larry Wayne Richards, 2009), and Landmarks and Monuments (Larry Wayne Richards, 2007). These exhibitions have been reviewed in Canadian Architect (2023), the LA Review of Books (2021), LA Weekly (2021), the Los Angeles Times (2021), and The Globe and Mail (2019, 2014, 2009). My creative practice was represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery (PNG) in Toronto from 2013 until her death in 2023.
Originally trained as an architect and engineer, I work across disciplines and have pursued intensive collaborations with urbanists, designers, humanists, poets, anthropologists, and neuroscientists, among others. I’m currently editing Black Box in the Sun: 25 Years at the Beall Center (Inventory, 2027). With Antoinette LaFarge, I edited Engaging the Margins: Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art (Brill, 2024), which brings together fifteen artists working at the edges of disciplines. With Roderick Grant and Patricio Davila, I edited Urban Ecologies 2013 (OCAD University, 2016), which examined research and practice that is shaping the future of cities. With Greg Sims, I curated and travelled Making it Real (2013–14), one of the first international exhibitions of digitally fabricated objects. My collaborative practice has also included sustained work with Tori Foster (2009–2019) and Zebulon Zang (2023–present).
I’ve been a Faculty Fellow at the Newkirk Center for Science & Society (2022–23), an Innovation Fellow at Beall Applied Innovation (2020–22), a Hellman Fellow at the University of California (2014–15), and a Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto (2007–08). I’ve been invited to speak about my work around the world, most recently at the University of California, Davis, the Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, and the Berkeley Center for New Media. My projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, the Centre for Innovation in Information Visualization and Data-Driven Design, the Digital Media Research and Innovation Institute, and Alianza MX.
At the University of California, Irvine, I’m a Professor of Electronic Art and Design in the Department of Art, the Associate Dean, Research and Innovation for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and the Executive Director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology. I taught previously at OCAD University and the University of Toronto.