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My own multi-disciplinary, socially based art practice and teaching work overlap considerably.

The Phrenology Project, supported by a 2007 harvestworks.org residency and 2007 rhizome.org commission, began with a workshop at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, for women to write about their perception of space, from past, present, or projected future. Three weeks were devoted to letter writing, three to poetry, and three to fiction writing. 3 guest critics came to speak about their respective specialties. The women and I worked together to plan a series of photographic environments for an interactive website based on their writings.

The Chiros Project, supported by a grant from the Bronx Arts Council, will begin in Spring 2008 with a a workshop for HIV+ women to learn video production skills and create video essays in conjunction with CAMBA.org’s Speaker’s Bureau public voice program. The course will explore time based work as a means of empowerment, culminating with the women creating video essays about their relationship to time. The class will also create an open content web site with a vlog to document the their experience, their final personal essays, and an open course curriculum that will be used and augmented by future Speakers Bureau workshops.

I am currently faculty at Parson’s the New School for Design’s
Communication Design & Technology program, where I teach a variety of theory and studio classes on experimental time based work, mobile media, gaming and open source software. For information on specific classes, please see my Parson's Blog.