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Artist Statement

I seek to investigate the space between science and art by exploring the visual identity of technology. My work is evidenced of human creation, however the imagery has an inhuman coldness, a hyperreal depiction of the manufactured, lacking narrative. The machines exist without a user, residing separately in their own distinct presence. This presence is a visual one, a push and pull of virtual space, and an interaction between light and material, man and machine.


"Because the essence of technology is nothing technological, essential reflection upon technology and decisive confrontation with it must happen in a realm that is, on one hand, akin to the essence of technology, and, on the other, fundamentally different from it. Such a realm is art." - Martin Heidegger

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Professional Work[Digital Humanities]

Current Work: mental images



I am currently working for mental images on their RealityServer web platform for interactive 3D rendering.



Rome Reborn



An international collaborative project started at UCLA but later moved to the University of Virginia, Rome Reborn is a large scale scholarly 3D model of the entire city of ancient Rome at the height of its civic development in 320AD. The project has been shown all over the world, featured in such publications as Newsweek, Smithsonian, Computer Graphics World, The New York Times, the Washington Post and many others, is in use in tourism applications in Rome, was a featured New Technologies exhibit at the SIGGRAPH 2008 conference in LA, and is now a featured gallery layer in Google Earth. I have worked on this project since 2006, from 2008 forward I served as Director of 3D Modeling, and I was the Project Manager for the SIGGRAPH initiative and 2.0 improvements, in collaboration with Mental Images in Berlin and Procedural, Inc. in Zurich.

Projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities



I currently work on other visualization and web initiative projects at University of Virginia's Institute for the Advanced Technology for the Humanities, an academic research group that furthers the use of technology in the realm of cultural heritage and humanities scholarship.



Other than Rome Reborn, at IATH I have worked on the following projects:

  • The Medieval Design Process at Southwell Minster [3D Modeling and Web Design with Drupal]
  • Dresden Sculpture Archive [Laser Scan Processing]
  • Leonardo Da Vinci and His Treatise on Painting [2D Scan Processing]
  • Turin 1911: The World's Fair in Italy [Web Design]
  • The World of Dante [Web Design]
  • Visualization Studio [Systems Operator and Graphics Hardware Maintenance]




    • Technical Computer Graphics Work from College