My research is designed to necessarily bring me into new strange places. From within these deep cultural, physical, and biological assemblages, I investigate new points of potential exploration.
Recent Adventures
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Waterspace: Floating Makerspace as Arts Ambassador Philippines
In the Spring of 2016, I served as the American Arts Ambassador with the US State Department and ZERO1. The goal is to launch projects that support environmental health via technological with the community in Dumaguete (a town on the Island of Negros in the Philippines). There I headed up several initiatives and workshops targeting…
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Hacking the Wild: Madagascar
As part of the series of Hiking Hackathons, we launched an expedition to Madagascar in February 2015. Brian Fisher, head entomologist at the Cal Academy of Sciences, Hannah Perner-Wilson, digital craft designer at Kobakant, and Andrew Quitmeyer, PhD student in Digital Naturalism, traveled to south Madagascar’s Anoyasan Mountain range to explore three main goals: Discover…
Older Adventures
Before my PhD research, I went on similar journeys to Ecuador, the Galapagos, Turkey, China, Thailand, and Cambodia.
These adventures are described in my old blog: http://elephantopus.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html