CV

Select Shows

2026Black-box Theater, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Shenzhen CN. MIT Research at Scale group exhibition.

2025Code as Canvas: Creative Graphics in the Age of AI, Gwangju Media Art Platform (G.MAP), Gwangju KR. With Zach Lieberman, Future Sketches Group.

2025Future Type, MIT Museum, Cambridge MA. Future Sketches Group. On view through spring 2026.

2023Future Sketches / Code Poems, ARTECHOUSE Miami, during Art Basel Miami. Group show; showed FKA ASCII.

Publications

2025FANTASY IDE — Explorations in building coding environments that promote creativity in live coded visual performances (paper), ICLC 2025.

2024Fantasy IDE performance & paper submission, ICLC 2024.

Press

2024Live-Coding, Performance, and Computational Art (podcast), Art&&Code / AMT Lab.

2023Algoraves, where music is coded live, are taking over Brooklyn, Alternative Press.

2021Tools & Craft interview, Notion.

2020Email Rituals, -empyre- network.

Select Performances

2026FANTASY IDE, FAB26, Boston & Cambridge MA.

2026Shenzhen Robot Theater, Shenzhen CN. Live-coded visuals with hacked consumer electronics; Research at Scale residency.

2025FANTASY IDE, ICLC (International Conference on Live Coding).

2025Live Letters: The Future is Typing…, MIT Museum, Cambridge MA. Organizer & livecode performance, with Sadnoise, this.xor.that, Switch Angel, and Vera van de Seyp.

2024Nature of Code book release show, with Daniel Shiffman.

2024Gray Area Festival, San Francisco CA. Livecoding with DJ_DAVE.

2023Livecoding with DJ_DAVE, opening for JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown.

2023SXSW, Austin TX. Livecoding with DJ_DAVE.

2023Electric Forest, Rothbury MI. Livecoding with DJ_DAVE.

2021Computer Pop, New York NY.

2020GitHub Universe (online). Livecoding.

2020Twilio Signal TV (online). Livecoding.

2020React Rally (online). Livecoding.

2020GitHub Satellite (online). Livecoding.

2020ICLC Algorave, Limerick, Ireland.

2020SFPC Seven Year Algorave, School for Poetic Computation, New York NY.

2018Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA. Livecoded A/V set with {arsonist} (Danielle Rager).

2017VIA Festival, Pittsburgh PA. Livecoding for Elysia Crampton, Haleek Maul, EMBACI, D0UZE, Anna Azizzy.

Select Talks & Workshops

2025Fantasy IDEs (talk), Internet Archive, San Francisco CA.

2025Livecoding Machines for Creativity and Realtime Expression (workshop), FAB25, Prague & Brno, Czech Republic.

2025Fantasy IDE workshop, Livecode @ dadaLab, Austin TX.

2024Live Code: Real-Time Visual Music Since the 1980s (panel), Open Worlds, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens NY.

2024Introduction to Shaders and Practical Applications (workshop), Gray Area Festival, San Francisco CA.

2024Creative Coding IDE workshop, MIT Media Lab / Future Sketches.

2023The Art of Livecoding (keynote), NERD Summit, UMass Amherst.

2021OSSTA Lecture, Steiner Lecture Series, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University.

2020Reflections on Teaching Live Coding (panel), Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL).

2021Creative coding workshops & LASER Talk, CODAME ART+TECH / Stanford.

2019–GLSL ray marching workshop series (freelance), Duke, CMU, NYU Tandon, MIT, Parsons, Recurse Center, MUTEK, Hackers & Designers, ArtCenter, CODAME, Cooper Union, and others.

Residencies

2026Research at Scale, MIT Media Lab / Seeed Studio / AIRS, Shenzhen CN. One-month research residency scaling creative hardware with mass manufacturing; travel & housing supported.

2026Quantum computing art residency, IQM / Parq.

2021OSSTA residency, Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University. NEA-funded; developed Shader.Place.

Tools

2021Shader.Place — realtime collaborative GLSL livecode editor.

2020Computer Faith — experimental email server.

2019CARL (Code Augmented Reality Live), with Moon Davé.

Select Awards

2024Steven Holtzman Graduate Fellowship for Digital Expression (25th anniversary), MIT.

2020Snap ML Resident, Snap Inc.

2020Clinic for Open-Source Arts Grant.

2019Recurse Center Grant.

2018DemoSplash Live Shader Compo, First Place.

2024MIT Arts Startup Incubator finalist, Hex House.

Education

2025–Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab.

2025MS Media Arts & Sciences, MIT Media Lab, Future Sketches.

2018BCSA (Honors), Carnegie Mellon University. Minor in Media Design.