Roots Weaving Waves
Wheatgrass seeds are sown into a bed of agar agar, where their roots weave into...
Un-becoming Carbon: traveling in intercellular space
The first migrants emerged on land from the oceans 3.7 billion years ago. Called Stromatolites,...
Grasping Permeability
What does it feel like to know that your body is continuous with the world?...
Becoming Biodiversity
Becoming Biodiversity is an augmented reality application that encourages participants to explore and experience local,...
Machine Garden
Plants, worms, and a robot make up this ecosystem artwork produced for the University of...
Waiting on Breath of Leaves
Life-giving oxygen, passing through our human lips into our lungs, is exhaled from the lips of plants. This intimate...
Where Rocks are Fed to Trees
A vast network of underground fungi run the largest mining operation on the planet. Scraping...
#WormSelfie Photo Booth
In preparation for a future that includes cohabitation with living, domestic ecosystems, I created this photo...
HandShake
I acknowledge composting worms as important partners and proactive agents of domestic waste removal. I...
LIVE Feedings
A live feed webcam located in my office at the Ohio State University broadcasted the...
Worm Cozies
Worm Cozies are designed to help humans feel more comfortable hosting worms in their homes. Based on the...
Eating the Wave Particle Duality
Waste is food. A spectrum of waste materials can be digested by composting worms, who...
Encounters of a Domestic Nature
An interface for crickets and humans to enjoy each other. Domestic house crickets live in...
Museum for Insects
Can we know insects through electronic and artistic interfaces? Do they know us? Can they...
Machine for Living Interdependently
The plants, worms and bacteria living in this sculpture rely on each other and on...
Building a Rainbow
An ecosystem artwork that transforms waste into a colorful indoor water feature for growing edible...
Glitch Wallpaper
The aesthetics of the glitch are celebrated here as a repeating pattern wallpaper design. It...
River Construct
River Construct, is an indoor composting and plant growing unit that attempts to reproduce a...
Coshocton Webcam Statue Stage
An experimental stage for characters, props and improvisational play in Coshocton, Ohio, which is broadcast...
Solar Farm Fountain
An outdoor, sun-powered, recirculating water pond and garden for growing edible plants and fish, co-created...
Food Portraits from Farm Fountain
This series of portrait photographs commemorate the fish I raised from baby fingerlings to full-grown...
Why Look at Animals
Viewers capture video images of animals on furry, handheld animal-shaped screens. I collected the videos...
Exquisite Bodies
An interactive video mobile sculpture. Based on the concept of the “exquisite corpse”, this project...
Farm Fountain
This living sculpture is designed to inspire participation in lowering greenhouse gas emissions through personal,...
Cute Parasites
Grafted cacti are monstrous and delightful parasites, horticultural ornaments and life-support systems. Fluorescent cacti are...
Artifacts from the Screening of the World
Seeing the outdoors while indoors, seeing through machines, seeing the machine seeing, seeing the limitations...
Digestive Table
A living ecosystem of worms, sowbugs and bacteria are invited to this table. They are...
Hydroponic Solar Garden
This installation is a collaborative project with Ken Rinaldo that resulted from discussions about indoor, sustainable gardens....
Holodeck for House Crickets
If they could choose, where would domesticated crickets choose to be? Living outdoors in the...
Intraterrestrial Soundings
Intra-terrestrial Soundings is an installation that offers human participants an opportunity to tune into –...
Seeing the Sky Around the World, All At Once
What would it be like to see the sky around the world at the same...
Screenwindow
This video chronicles my personal relationship with a web cam; the live, 24-hour web cam...
Micropropagation
This installation of digitally manipulated photographs is a visual exploration into the idea that humans...
Prototypes for Hermit Crab Shells
Hermit Crabs cannot grow their own shells, so they rely upon marine snails to produce...
Hydroelectric Invert
A pseudo-waterfall sculpture made of rubber, light, motion and the booming sound of a waterfall....
Alchemical Bloom
Alchemical Bloom is a system of artificial growth using information gathered from a natural source....
Rearming the Spineless Opuntia
The plant inside this device is both interactive with people and protected from them. Its...
Engineered for Empathy
Inspired by the creation of transgenic tobacco plants that glow with the genes of fireflies,...
Trophy Waterfall
This interactive sound sculpture is a commemorative nature souvenir. Like a trophy deer head, it...
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Cricket Call
This technologically-enhanced nature experience attempts to facilitate communication between crickets and humans. The cricket participants...
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Cricket Call
This technologically-enhanced nature experience attempts to facilitate communication between crickets and humans. The cricket participants...
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Cricket Call
This technologically-enhanced nature experience attempts to facilitate communication between crickets and humans. The cricket participants...
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Cricket Call
This technologically-enhanced nature experience attempts to facilitate communication between crickets and humans. The cricket participants...
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Cricket Call
This technologically-enhanced nature experience attempts to facilitate communication between crickets and humans. The cricket participants...
Mnemonic Devicive
The array of devices inside the tire entices viewer participation. As a hand reaches out...
Dis • M • Body
In this installation we explored the disembodied nature of information and messages as they dislocate...