I am an artist, designer, educator, and PhD student at NYU Steinhardt studying Educational Communication and Technology. My research interests are very interdisciplinary, living at the intersection of art, design, computing, cognition, and critical studies. I’m curious about the ways that new media art shapes knowledge, identity, and culture. The research questions I’m currently exploring are related to computing education:
1) What roles should visual and embodied cognition play in the design of tools for computing education?
2) How are bodies conceptualized and constructed through computing cultures, tools, and pedagogies?
3) How can art-based pedagogies and research practices work to create queer futures in computing?
I take a design-based and participatory approach to my work, co-creating research projects and tools with community members and studying how identity and creative practice are affected by using them.
My background is in Art & Media Studies and Human-Computer Interaction. Beyond my studies at NYU, I work as a Studio Assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.