Sorting through ancestor-descendant folder structures in order to process ancestor-descendant knowledge transference and loss.

/* Vessels */ is a system for collecting and sharing trauma-informed activist practices that focus on grieving and healing. It offers an opportunity to explore the gap as a space for both mourning and life.

The core values of /* Vessels */ lie in its resilience against internet suppression, censorship, and cyber attacks, ensuring the continued dissemination of information. Just as a local publisher may face downtime or a bookstore struggles with physical space, /* Vessels */ envisions itself as a portable library. People can persistently contribute to this repository, ensuring the preservation and accessibility of knowledge and information, regardless of external challenges. The shared stories, ideas and knowledges are discreetly distributed within a trusted network.

A version of the trans flag, made from a file system with a past that is constantly being re-examined, re-negotiated, and re-understood. Records from the past are constantly revisited and recreated as their created dates and modified dates shift. A representation of a transition-in-progress.

Personal history, national narratives, code, and sound facilitate a debugging session of a memory leak: a type of software bug that gradually makes memory unavailable and depletes the system of resources.

Staged as a series of video tutorials, Merge Conflicts engages a process of unlearning settler colonial pedagogy through using Git, a software tool for managing multiple versions of digital documents.

Digital version is available at https://learngit.xyz.

Song Itself Acts As a First Line of Territorial Defense is a digital listening experience, highlighting the physicality of the internet.

The website traces the physical route data packets traveled from the server, through various routers along the network, and to the client. It then plays recent recordings of birds from key places along the route.

Digital version is available at http://www.birdsoftheinternet.com.

Request Deferred is an intervention in the digitization process of the Israel State Archive.

In 2019, the majority of records have not been digitized. In this piece, the process of requesting unavailable records is automated.

For the duration of the installation, the script repeated filling out the online form hundreds of times to request records related to the displacement and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 and 1949. All records were officially added to the archivists’ queue to be made public.

A function draws rectangles in different sizes with different offsets on a canvas.

The rectangles are used to cut into Israeli history textbooks in order to identify patterns in settler colonial pedagogy.

All textbooks contain a single image from 1948, of Al Nakba, the ongoing Palestinian catastrophe.

Through cutting into the textbooks, the image is made visible to provide opportunities for self study.

A code poem generates vector files.

The files are read by a laser cutter.

The shapes are assembled to make cylindrical molds.

The molds are used to make light, affordable, and loud marching drums.

The marching drums are used in street actions, whenever needed.

An installation of marching drums at rest and a poetic reflection on political organizing work.

Mother and child separated by distance come together in virtual space with the goal of writing a protest chant.

The project was as a response to Ralph Ellisson’s book “Invisible Man” being banned in the Randolph County Board of Education in Central North Carolina in 2013.

As a digital platform for civil disobedience, the project asks participants to record and upload parts of banned books.

As an installation, participants call in and record individual pages of "Invisible Man." A collective act of solidarity with those who are still invisible in our society.

Employing strategic uses of silence in the reading of appropriated texts, the installation renders a “lack” of spoken language production into a call for acts of critical listening.

Fantastic Futures was a collective formed during the Iraq War. With participants from Baghdad and NYC, we shared stories and envisioned the future.

We created an interactive sound collection through which we made and exchanged sounds.

We interviewed each other, made field recordings and listened together. We collaged sounds from different locations to form compositions.

Performative installation made with collective recording excercises and interviews conducted by Fantastic Futures in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, addressing questions and discussions around diversity, visions of the future, and entitlement of space.

With support from Rhizome, Fantastic Futures created a movement based performance to experiment with modes of attentive listening.

In this event, audience members are blindfolded as performers move around the space playing sounds from the collective's online platform using minimal, low-tech megaphones.

The compositions performed consist of collaged field recordings and interviews conducted among members of the group in Baghdad and NYC in 2011.

For a decade, Trade School operated in fifty chapters worldwide. Teachers proposed classes and asked for barter items from students. Students signed up for classes by agreeing to bring a barter item for the teacher.

The project included open source software used to manage the project internally as well as the public facing system for establishing exchanges.

A responsive drum amplifies the participants’ heartbeats, becoming a collective resonant body.

Through a series of performances that juxtapose speech, singing, and heartbeat sounds, audiences are invited to consider how individuals share airtime and listen to each other.

Circuit for Listening to the Heart is designed to amplify the frequencies of five heartbeats and attenuate others significantly. Five amplified and filtered heartbeat signals are mixed into one output. Combined with modified stethoscopes, this circuit facilitates a listening experience where five people listen to the group’s collective heartbeat.

Spoken Synth is a cusom made synthesizer. A Speakjet chip turned into a five oscillator additive synthesizer, controlled by an Arduino and custom software. Sounds generated by this synthesizer have been used for multiple projects.

Circuit for Voice and Wind incorporates five AC dimmers that are controled by an external input. This circuit facilitates the translation of voice and wind.