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The focus of both my scholarly and artistic work is on exploring the formal characteristics of the forces which cleave binaries together and apart. As an artist, my primary medium is the traditional viewing subject. Through involving the latter in a collective, creative act (as facilitated by my installations) I attempt to foreground the blurriness of the boundaries which separate the individual from the group, the inside from the outside even as the pieces depend for their activation on the participation of the bounded individual. My written work similarly investigates the tensions inherent in binaristic models by focusing on how humans “body forth” their affective experience of the world into material culture and abstract systems of thought. My recently completed dissertation “Depth Technology: Remediating Orientation” examines how the on-going shift from a vision-centered to a body-centered mode of perception, as facilitated by digital technology, promotes non-Euclidian (non-linear, fractal, topological) modes of thought. In a similar vein, my essay entitled “Reconfiguring the Space of Agency in the Digital Age,” published in The Saint Louis University Law Journal, examines how the computational revolution has opened up the possibility for a new ethico-aesthetic paradigm. My interactive sculptures have been exhibited in galleries in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Winston Salem and Columbus, Ohio, and I have been an invited speaker/panelist at venues such as New York University, the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York City, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Saint Louis University Law School, Artists in Context National Conference at MIT and at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. I have participated in the founding of a number of organizations including the WOW theater collective in NYC, the LIVE/WORK COALITION for the preservation of artist’s housing in NYC and (along with artists Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil) the Living Culture Initiative for the promotion of transdiscplinary art practices. I received my doctoral degree in the fall of 2012 in the field of Science and Technology Studies from The Ohio State University under the direction of mediologist/mathematician Brian Rotman.