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Working across video and performance, I explore how visibility becomes entangled with the politics of appeal, refusal, and opacity—particularly under the voyeuristic demands of the global image economy. Combining documentary and found footage with live performance and computer-generated animation, my work examines how constructed images, through their absurdity, parody, and artifice, can function as forms of evidence within the unstable terrain of witnessing.

Recent projects examine CIA programs training psychics for remote targeting, Israel’s expanding surveillance network in the West Bank, and the drone of diesel generators across Damascus reverberating with the rival interests converging upon Syria amid its deepening energy crisis.

I have taught studios, seminars, and workshops at the Department of Architecture at Cornell AAP, the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Yale School of Art where I am currently Critic and teaching courses on video art, performance studies, and artist writing.

While at Yale School of Art, I also served as the Assistant Dean for Research and Public Projects from 2017–2019. As Assistant Dean, I developed Critical Practice as an emerging area of study, while also organizing new initiatives, workshops, and programs as they related to all school, university, and broader cooperations, nationally and internationally.

I am currently based in Brooklyn and New Haven, Connecticut.