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Notes from the intersection

Tutorials, artistic practice, and the occasional personal reflection - written for anyone standing where art meets code.

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October 2026

I Planned an Event Every Month of College

Three ARGO formals, Humans vs. Zombies, a campfire party called ARGO Touches Grass, and what four years of event planning taught me about design.

PersonalEvents

October 2026

Three Years of Board Game Club (and the Shelf That Proves It)

I was president of my college board game club for three years. Here is what cardboard taught me, plus the favorites shelf.

PersonalGames

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October 2026

Why I Don't Think Page Builders Are the Future

I build with Elementor professionally, and that is exactly why I think drag-and-drop page builders are a transitional technology, not a destination.

TechnologyOpinion

October 2026

What Being the Class Reviewer Taught Me

In fall 2024 I implemented the git flow for my software engineering class and reviewed my classmates' pull requests. Here is what all that reviewing actually teaches you.

TechnologyPersonal

Illustrated jousting pennants above a fortune teller's crystal ball

October 2026

Ren Faires and the Posthuman Urge to Live the Fantasy

Dragon hair clips, a fortune teller costume, and a joust: why renaissance faires scratch the same itch as my posthuman art practice.

PersonalArtistic Practice

Spring 2025

Computer Re-Vision: A Response to Trevor Paglen's Work with Facial Recognition

Running my own face, my partner, and my parents through a facial recognition model to test the bias Trevor Paglen's work exposes.

EssaysArt + Tech

Spring 2025

The Entanglements Amongst Us: Technology and Cyborgs in Contemporary Media

My Posthuman Feminism podcast episode on cyborgs in movies and games: Haraway's manifesto, Vision and Ultron, Fallout 4's synths, and whether we have always been cyborgs.

EssaysArtistic Practice

March 25, 2025

My Journey with Web Design

How a curiosity became a passion - my experience learning web design, and tips for anyone starting out.

Technology

March 25, 2025

The Art of Wigglegrams

Bringing depth and motion to still images - how wigglegrams work, their history, and how I use them in my practice.

Artistic Practice

March 25, 2025

Introduction to Arduino

A beginner-friendly guide to the platform behind my robots - from installing the IDE to your first blinking LED.

TutorialsEducation

March 10, 2025

My Journey as a Double Major

Balancing the technical rigor of computer science with the creative freedom of art at Allegheny College.

Personal

Spring 2025

Embracing the Cyborg and Empowering Identity in a Posthuman World

Why the cyborg, from Haraway's manifesto to glitch feminism and Afrofuturism, is a figure of empowerment rather than exploitation.

EssaysPosthumanism

Spring 2024

Queer Coded Villains and Who Comics Are Really For

Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, and Ursula: my Feminist Art History podcast episode about queer coded villains and the male gaze in comics, adapted to the page.

EssaysArtistic Practice

Spring 2024

The Privilege of the Curator to Control the Cultural Narrative

A field trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art becomes a question of who gets gallery space, who gets consent, and who controls how cultures are represented.

EssaysArt History

Spring 2024

Moving Photography Forward from Aggression

Rereading Susan Sontag's claim that every camera is an aggressor, through the Vietnam War's most famous photographs and the work of Carrie Mae Weems.

EssaysArt History

December 2023

Going Bare Metal: What Stellar Cartography Taught Me

What I learned writing a map-making game in C for the Raspberry Pi Pico, with no operating system underneath me.

TutorialsPersonal

Spring 2023

Antisemitism in America After WWII: A Look into the Movie, School Ties

What the 1992 film School Ties shows about hate crimes, stereotypes, and systemic bias against Jews in 1950s America.

EssaysReligion

Fall 2022

The Sleeping Beauty Problem

My probability theory paper on the puzzle that splits mathematicians into halfers and thirders. Written and typeset in LaTeX.

EssaysMath

Spring 2022

The Hinoeuma Superstition

Why Japan's birth rate dropped in 1966, and how a centuries-old zodiac superstition still follows women born in fire-horse years.

EssaysReligion