On navigating the tension between physical and digital realms

That idea of sharing a digital subconscious is something I’ve been thinking about a lot, because my passing thoughts should be just mine, invisible within my own body, right? But then suddenly I’m sharing them with someone else, subconsciously, in virtual space.

I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t ... See more

I see it as there’s sort of a Silicon Valley mentality of seamlessness and efficiency that often feels counterintuitive to the art world, which is more about slowly thinking and exploring. And I think that slowing down and exploring more might actually help technologists get to some of the stuff that they’re trying for anyway.

A passing thought has become a physical movement in virtual space, and has perhaps been enacted on someone in a way that makes them feel physically violated. How do we deal with that? VR might be an opportunity to try and sort out alternate methods of rehabilitation for things that hurt other people. It is an opportunity to rewrite how we deal with... See more

The thing that I find most beautiful about technology generally is the possibility that we could use it to come up with a different way of seeing people, and a way to be more compassionate to one another, and we can use it to simulate what that might look like.

I sometimes feel that there’s just not a lot of literacy between the worlds of technology and art, but this doesn’t mean that there’s not a lot of crossover. I see how the art world can be incredibly intimidating, and if you’re someone who is working in a technological realm, maybe you might feel shut out. To someone feeling that way, I’d like to s... See more

We need more shared intentions about how we do things in virtual spaces. Some of them are just being written as we go, like when you’re on a Zoom call with more than four people, you mute your microphone, you know?