I am an interdisciplinary artist, architect, and tattoo artist who likes to create beyond categories and conventions. My work lies at the intersection of digital media and tattooing, where I work towards uniquely amalgamating machine learning, AI, immersive art, data science, and computational art with a queer epistemological lens. I am interested in errors, computational glitches, uncertainties, unknowns, and the speculative power of computational making and designing. I'm also keen on utilizing circuit-bending, and old mechanisms as artistic approaches. I'm trying to make these disciplines tangible through tactile experiences. Because of my strong architectural background, I am well versed in design, representation, computer-aided design, and fabrication, with a strong focus on ecological thinking, re-visioning, regenerative, biological, and computational approaches. When not at my desk, I run a private tattoo practice and apply my concepts to human skin. In my practice, I combine oral histories with new design methods and connect contemporary stories with the old. The combination of computer methods to adapt the design to the chosen anatomy, as opposed to the primitive technique of tattooing, makes my work unique. As a tattoo artist, I work on large-scale compositions of the human body. Most of them are influenced by textures of natural elements that contain evolutionary memory, such as water, earth, and microorganisms, but also by individual experiences specific to each person. As an interdisciplinary artist, I ask myself this question: how can we as designers, architects, and artists create works that help society free itself from exploitative production systems and realize the ideal of an ecologically, socially, and politically harmonious future? To respond to relevant and urgent 21st-century questions, I operate my practice with a combination of research and innovation. While we envision ourselves as autonomous, conscious, intentional, and extraordinary, we must also connect with other living organisms and recognize infrastructures as social mechanisms as we seek to solve existing humanistic problems. As a designer, I find that one must empathize with other living organisms and the environment, and as an artist, one must understand that one must not only produce art with social and environmental impact in
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In my practice, I intertwine human connections with the natural world and digital realms,
embracing glitch aesthetics and queer theory to challenge conventional AI narratives. My work, drawing on ecological and regenerative principles, seeks to utilize art, design, and media as healing mechanisms, fostering diversity and regeneration. I'm deeply committed to reflecting the culture of queerness in my work, seeing errors as nonbinary opportunities for new design elements in a world that works with binary codes.