My visual studies reflect a tension between my subjective interpretations and the more objective information that exists such as dates, events, places. I have become interested in what this relationship reveals about how we construct and perceive history – that history as we know it is often quite subjective by nature.
My experiences designing for the One Laptop Per Child for UNICEF (as well as my love for Wikipedia, YouTube and NPR) have developed into an interest in interactions that insert the individual voice into areas of public knowledge.
I am also interested systems of recording archiving.I have been researching a variety of systems and methods that seem to touch upon this including database visualizations, recording devices, museums, wikis, social software, tree rings, time capsules (the Osaka 70 Time Capsule is particularly fascinating) and archives.
This Fall, I will be working on an exhbition space as a demonstration of my thesis findings and explorations.