2025 Comets Love You to the Moon and Back * 10^6
The longest Valentine's Day card on record, nearly .4 miles of folded and glued pages, is a visualization of the distance to the moon and back at roughly the scale of 10^6.
2020 & ongoing, Grotte du Lazaret
Time-based media to accompany commissioned poems for Le Printemps des Poètes (Spring of Poets) at Grotte du Lazaret in Nice, France.
2024 Witches' Weed
Custom typeface and 2KB poem in Taper 13. Superstitions. Check the source code!
2024 LabSynthE at The Other Art Fair
“OH! You're one of those whacky artists!” -- Karen Finley, upon meeting me at NYU Bobst Library in NYC.
2024 Magnolia Threads
Custom typeface and paper towel installation at East Flushing Gallery, Ulrich Museum at Kansas State University Wichita.
2023 Paying it Forward
Transfer prints of one-cent commissions for poetry published on Venmo and Instagram. Made during my time with NEW INC's Art & Code.
2008 & ongoing, BOOKS
Writing is an intervention in the field, bringing artists’ voices to textbook publishing.
2022 Women's Work is (Screen) Saved
Sentiments from female workers on Mturk.com during the pandemic. Screensaver projected at AURORA and installed at the Art & Tech Biennial at Connecticut College.
2020 A Kitchen of One's Own
Commission for the Media Wall at The Photographers&pos; Gallery, London
2020 I Got Up 2020: Pandemic Edition
Instagram series reinterpreting On Kawara's postcards. Included in the 2020 COVID E-Lit exhibit and follow-up documentary on digital artists during the pandemic.
2019 An Archive of Unnamed Women
Remix of NYPL archives showcasing unnamed women in their image archives.
2018 The Laboring Self
Intervention with Mechanical Turk workers and artist residency at The Center for Creative Connections in The Dallas Museum of Art.
2016 The Women of El Toro
App that reframes park locations as sites of women's stories who once lived on the land when it was the El Toro air base.
2015 Mediations on Digital Labor
Hand-drawn sentiments from Mechanical Turk workers on being paid to rest. Grand Central Arts Center Project Room, Santa Ana, CA. Curated by John Spiak.
2014 On The Web installed in solo exhibit, Please Participate!
Single-page scroll of Kerouac's On The Road, where “road” is replaced by “web” throughout. 14-foot scroll of Kerouac holding the typed scroll of his road novel.
2008-10 Let's Go Crazy project reflection in The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies
Platform intervention with the YouTube video response feature. Keywords: Stephanie Lenz, dancing baby, DMCA, Remix
2008-2022 Mechanical Olympics
“I'm trying to intervene in a system that perpetuates a really steadfast routine—‘do these HITs as fast as you can and try to make more than 80 cents&—to offer an alternative,” she says. “It's [called] ‘Mechanical’ Turk, and it feels mechanical. There's a void there. So I'm trying to breathe some kind of human spirit into this mechanical void and celebrate the human body that [is] the workers.” --Interview with Miranda Katz, Wired.com, 2018
“Indeed, the project humorously turns the otherwise tightly-regulated machinery of both web commerce and international sports competition on their heads.” --Marisa Olson, Rhizome.org, 2008
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2006, ongoing Delocator.net
“Delocator.net is a good example of how consumers can articulate their anti-consumption philosophy by targeting specific corporate brands and connecting with other consumers through the co-creation of messages and inspiring consumers to change their behaviours and create economic pressure on the targeted brand.” -- S. Umit Kucuk, “Consumer Exit, Voice, and ‘Power’ on the Internet,”
social interactions
Interactive Art, Participatory Art & Feminist Practices Mediated by Technology
An intimate interaction exploring self-regulatory nervous system responses. Two participants wear an electronically enhanced knitted shawl that monitors their heartbeats as they synced through the experience of togetherness. Digital Frontiers (Austin 2019), NYU Bobst Library Mamdouha Gallery (2021-22), The Other Art Fair (Dallas 2024)
Interventionist hack of Starship delivery robots at UT Dallas in which the robots themselves protest their complicity in inaccessibile practices.
Participatory quilt block for the AIDS Quilt Memorial, led by Leticia Ferreira with LabSynthE
This fourth version of One Breath Poem pivots to an interaction that takes place on the cell phone in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread social unrest in 2020.