Through years of artistic practice and theoretical inquiry, I've come to understand art as a form of transmission where conscious experiences are encoded into media, capable of evoking related states of consciousness in those who encounter it. This understanding guides my practice, which explores such transmission through contemporary technologies—particularly generative systems and artificial intelligence—to investigate how humans perceive and create meaning from patterns. Through this work, I examine the boundaries between order and chaos, between traditional artistic practices and computational systems, creating works that reveal new dimensions of human experience.
This understanding of art as a technology for communicating states of consciousness fundamentally informs my approach to design. While art creates spaces for open-ended exploration of experience, design extends human capacities through intentionally crafted interactions and environments. Both domains work with the encoding of non-verbal states—emotions, intuitions, and patterns of thought—into forms that can be received and understood by others. My work with artificial intelligence and generative systems explores how these technologies can procedurally enhance this encoding process across multiple modalities, creating new possibilities for both artistic expression and human-centered design.
Central to this approach is my exploration of how procedural and generative processes can encode complex states of consciousness into meaningful patterns. This investigation is informed by traditional systems that bridge human perception with algorithmic processes—particularly the I Ching, which uses structured randomness to create frameworks for meaning-making, and Buddhist mandala, which encode states of consciousness through geometric forms. These examples demonstrate how systematic approaches to pattern generation can create rich spaces for human interpretation.
My theoretical framework synthesizes insights from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and contemplative traditions, examining how consciousness structures our experience of reality. These approaches inform my investigation of how technological systems can reveal new dimensions of conscious experience. Through this lens, I explore the fluid boundaries between order and chaos, examining how structured processes can illuminate the patterns underlying human consciousness and creation.
My current investigations with artificial intelligence extend this exploration of consciousness and pattern recognition. By engaging with AI systems not merely as tools but as phenomena that mirror human perception, I examine how machine learning processes can reveal new insights about consciousness and meaning-making. Through my personal practice, I investigate the boundaries between machine and human perception; through Studio Pollen, my collaborative practice, I explore how AI can visualize scientific concepts and natural processes, bridging objective knowledge with subjective experience.
As my practice evolves alongside technological advancement, I remain focused on understanding how procedural systems—from ancient divination methods to contemporary artificial intelligence—can encode and transmit human experience. Through this work, I explore how new technologies can extend our capacity for perception and understanding, while remaining grounded in the fundamental questions about consciousness and meaning-making that have driven both artistic and design inquiry throughout history.