University of California, San Diego

Graduate Student, Visual Arts

About

I create new electronic art while also curating and visualizing the medium's past.

I'm all about: art+technology, interdisciplinary labs, cultural data, media/platform history, alternate realities, and design constraints.

I have a studio with Sarah Caluag (✖ me+Sarah). We make live visuals, installations, and curate too—most recently at ANI GIF.

The future of videogames is also a core focus. I'm the director of LA Game Space—a non-profit lab for art, design, and research. Earlier, I co-founded Re:Game lab and Playpower—a foundation that designs learning games for developing countries.

From 2004–12, I was a researcher at Calit2 (and the Supercomputer Center). Together with Jeremy Douglass and Lev Manovich, we pioneered “cultural analytics”—the visualization and algorithmic understanding of pop culture and the humanities. That work continues in current endeavors such as Z/Z/Z/.

When not swamped, I advise private organizations on conceptual design. I'm a senior fellow with the Center for Design and Geopolitics and contributor to Data Garden, Attract Mode, etc.

And long before any of this, in 1986, I dialed the “Future Link.” That led to operating my very own digi-arts BBS and creating art, code, and music for the ANSi and demo scenes of the early '90s. Ultimately, it set in motion a life-long journey.

I live in L.A. and frequently roam the California coast.

—DR, 2012 ⏎

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