On March 1, drone strikes hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, marking the first publicly confirmed military attack on a hyperscale cloud provider. The strikes exposed the cloud’s military entanglements, but also its broader chokehold on civilian technological development and everyday life. These infrastructures store and control people’s data, memory, and intelligence while being heavily guarded, proprietary and inaccessible to most civilians.
Since the 1990s, the tech industry has appropriated the word cloud to describe a system that appears diffuse and immaterial, even though it is physical, grounded, and vulnerable. 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2026) takes up this tension through a digitally rendered volumetric cloud in virtual space, driven by real-time weather data from Bahrain and the UAE and health data from the AWS Health Dashboard. Visit 𝚊̲̲𝚕̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚑̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚖̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚘̲.̲𝚐̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚑̲̲𝚞̲̲𝚋̲.̲𝚒̲̲𝚘̲/̲𝚙̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚘̲̲𝚓̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚌̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚜̲/̲𝚜̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚔̲̲𝚎̲ to drop a missile onto the cloud and watch it recover over time.
Opening June 3, 2026 🚀Seattle
Not Pocket Size
No Push Notifications
Curiosity and Human Intelligence Required
Showing at @tiat.place as part of time.place from 3/21 to 4/3 — Moon Tapestry 🌖 🌕 🌙 a handmade doubleweave menstrual calendar that holds 28-day of Basal Body Temperatures. Intimate personal data is displayed in plain sight, encoded as a subtle thermally activated curve across moon phases.
Opening Reception on Friday, March 20.
Originally commissioned by the CyFer research project (Cyber Security , Privacy and Trust in FemTech) in 2023, developed with support from @afrdt ‘s Soft Lab and @tivonrice .
Cooking in a gallery, for a lot of humans and one small AI.
Soft Trigger explores what it means to feed an artificial intelligence with human food. The food is introduced into a microbial fuel cell system that slowly converts organic matter into small electrical currents, which supplement the power of a small AI unit. This work examines nourishment, maintenance, and the ambiguity of triggering as an embodied state. By placing these experiences beside the physical hardware of an artificial intelligence that processes energy rather than sensation, I consider what it means to enact care toward something that cannot ask for it or feel it. The ongoing work of tending, preparing, and sustaining becomes a way to think about responsibility, and about how we choose to show up for humans and nonhumans in a world increasingly shaped by AI.
Photo credit @nocellcoverage
Work developed at @tiat.place with support of @mozillafoundation and @solonmorse
Hardware support: SJSU Art Department
Prototyping new work!
𝕊𝕠𝕗𝕥 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕖𝕣 explores what it means to sustain artificial intelligence through human forms of care.
Opening at @tiat.place alongside other creative thinkers this Friday, December 5th at 7pm. Wine🍷 will be served as part of this work for the first 100 people who come by my station as I only have 100 cups…
Registration 🔗 in bio. It’s been a wonderful 12 weeks working with the @mozillafoundation Creative Future Counterculture fellows. Thank you @empowa and @leia.make for organizing!
Ground Ensemble with @violetmenace on 10/11 at @oldstonehousebklyn as part of the Kings County Fiber Festival. We were caught a bit unprepared due to the tropical storm, but our human bobbin performers were amazing ✨✨💫💫🧵🧵
Vicksburg -> Washington DC -> Brooklyn -> ???
Where should we do this next? Let us know if you want to host us.
Artist talk this Saturday, July 19, 2025 at Gallery 4Culture, 1-2pm.
Commit to Memory, Know it Will Perish
7/3-8/7, 2025 @kc4culture
Cover photo by joefreemanjunior
I’ve always documented my own works but this time @kc4culture arranged Joe Freeman to conduct a professional photography session. I am very grateful for these photos - there are 8 of them in total. Then the gallery said, please feel free to arrange more photo sessions. I’m not sure if I want to? It seems to be a good amount of documentation for a show questioning documentation.
Commit to Memory, Know it will Perish
7/3-8/7, 2025
Gallery 4Culture, Seattle
Monday - Friday, 9a - 5p
Artist talk on Saturday, 7/19, 1 - 2p
Closing reception on August First Thursday
Sorry, I’m getting very lazy with this social media copy thing and am exhausted from installing. Putting this in plain words - I have a show that opens this Thursday 7/3 during this month’s first Thursday in Seattle near Pioneer Square. You are invited and the show is free!
The show will take place at @kc4culture and is support by @dxarts@coalesce_biological_art and a @kc4culture Art Project Grant. Special thanks to friends at Sound Bio, MISL, one other Chemistry lab at UW that I don’t remember the name of, Melissa Avila (The Waxing Boutique), Mike Powers, and last but not least my husband (for putting up with my bad tempers, among many other things).
My PhD thesis committee is chaired by @afrdt and Daniela Rosner, including @tivonrice , @jasminemahmoud and Juan Pampin. @solonmorse is the best lab manager I know and an important collaborator.
Hope to see you!
It’s been a productive 2-month at the University at Buffalo @coalesce_biological_art . I had such great time working with Paul and Solon. I wish I had more time to watch my weird bacteria strains grow and enjoy the finally good weather in Buffalo. Thanks so much for having me!
Project description: 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚, 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒕 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉 examines the materiality and dis/embodiment of human memory as data within technological infrastructures and more-than-human environments. Developed during a residency at the Coalesce Center for Biological Arts and informed by prior research at the University of Washington’s Molecular Information Systems Lab, the project probes the logic of permanence that underlies synthetic biology and data storage. Using new media, traditional craft, and speculative bio-data practices, the work explores how human information, encoded as DNA molecules, is inserted into living hosts such as bacteria—promising a form of “immortality” as long as the host body remains alive. In contrast to this engineered persistence, the project asks: If knowledge is documented, does it mean we will remember it?
