On cultivating dreams in Vermont

On evolving a monogram

A conversation on The Stoa exploring the anatomy of ritual and the concept of ‘Life Art’ by way of In Fragments

On giving thanks

On the paradox of meaning

On working with energy

On balance and completion

On facts and framing

On the future

On diaries, drawing, and dreams

On inheritance

On working with symbols

On escaping your story

On boundaries and self-transformation

On gathering power

On Bob Dylan and the cost of becoming a channel

On death and becoming a teacher

On fear and forgiveness

On Covid, perception, and losing the world

On gifts and identity

On the world-making power of views

On the use of destruction

On creativity and the process of visioning

On art, beauty, and love

On fragmentation and wholeness

On ‘Life Art’

A set of essays exploring the 21 rituals that make up In Fragments, commissioned by the IDFA Film Festival

The full set of 21 films that make up In Fragments, with a running time of around two hours

A brief introduction to the world of In Fragments, exploring its origins and the notion of ‘Life Art’

A fragmented view of the 21 films that make up In Fragments, with a running time of around a minute

A series of 21 radical rituals to heal and transform historical patterns at High Acres Farm, documented in 21 short films

An insignia encapsulating a year of Shamanic studies with a cohort of fellow students collectively known as ‘The Firebirds’

An insignia showing time set free — for a trio of elegant timepieces tracking the cyclical rhythms of nature

An insignia for a video series made in the early days of Covid, composed of the handwriting of some of its isolated guests

A place of retreat at High Acres Farm, named for an old Latin word meaning the attentive noticing of things as they are

A gathering place for humans and nature, evolving out of its long history as a private family estate in Shelburne, Vermont

An imaginal future vision for the buildings and thousands of acres of land surrounding High Acres Farm

An identity system for a technology and construction startup inspired by the ‘pattern-languages’ of Christopher Alexander

An insignia for a conference at the University of Vermont exploring the converging climate crisis

An interactive website for a local craft education nonprofit, helping them to modernize their operations

An experimental protocol for using conversation as a way of cultivating presence

A pictographic oracle of rock art images created in the Utah desert — a mirrorlike refuge from the Internet cacaphony

A presentation at National Geographic in Washington, D.C. about data, storytelling, and ritual

A conversation following my Master Talk as IDFA’s 2017 ‘guest of honor’ discussing We Feel Fine and In Fragments

A presentation in the beautiful Tuschinski Theatre at IDFA in Amsterdam, exploring 15 years of life and work

A presentation at IDFA in Amsterdam, exploring the rise and fall of Cowbird

An essay exploring ten non-fiction works that shaped my way of seeing, commissioned by the IDFA Film Festival

An insignia and website for a local dance nonprofit, enabling them to build a network throughout rural Vermont

A reflection on Network Effect — prepared with the International Center of Photography

A three-day experience at High Acres Farm for a group of mentors and friends to help us plan the future of our land

An interactive (and satirical) portrait of the psychological effects of large-scale Internet use on humanity

An (unrealized) video messenging service using dialogue snippets extracted from movies, commissioned by Netflix

An (unrealized) project to celebrate Google Translate’s milestone of 100 languages supported, commissioned by Google

An (unrealized) installation about online self-expression, commissioned by Twitter

An (unrealized) project about the evolution of consciousness on Earth, commissioned by U2 for their world tour

A brief introduction to Cowbird — presenting a universal life story told through 227 individual stories told by the community

An interactive portrait of performance artist Vito Acconci, created in New York City shortly before his 75th birthday

An illustrated collection of phenomena related to the number ‘27’ which for many years I used as my pen name

An essay exploring the frustrating experience of creative block, commissioned by Transom as a ‘manifesto’

A presentation at Fabrica in Italy, exploring an overview of ten years of life and work since my fellowship there, as part of a workshop

An (unrealized) design for a house at High Acres Farm, based on two golden rectangles at 27 degree angles to one another

A manifesto on the promises and perils of so-called ‘Big Data’ commissioned by The New York Times

A brief introduction to I Love Your Work — exploring the everyday realities of those who make fantasies

A portrait of the realities of those who make fantasies using 10-second video clips shot every 10 minutes for 10 days

A presentation at the Eyeo Festival in Minneapolis, exploring the journey leading up to the creation of Cowbird

A presentation at Creative Mornings in Brooklyn exploring my decision not to take investment money for Cowbird

An essay exploring the ways in which software is becoming a new kind of drug, with proposals for a corresponding ethics

A presentation at the EG Conference in California, exploring the origins of the storytelling project, Cowbird

A conversation with Big Think discussing Cowbird and other social media platforms

A presentation at PSFK in New York exploring the personal and cultural forces that gave rise to Cowbird, including the Occupy movement

A platform for personal storytelling forming a public library of human experience with nearly 100,000 searchable stories

A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, using hundreds of brightly colored balloons

A presentation for Pace Gallery discussing I Love Your Work, as prepared for their Social Media exhibition in New York

A reflection on Today, discussing the 443-day practice of taking a photo and writing a short story each day

A conversation with Seven Days discussing Cowbird from in and around the Shelburne Farms ‘Breeding Barn’

A presentation at AIGA in New York exploring the psychological effects of intensive software programming on my experience of life

A 443-day practice of taking a photo and writing a short story each day, posting them online each night before going to sleep

Geese mate for life

Death by drowning

The Rowdies

The Devastating, Lake

Hearing yourself in the music

The Madness

Meteorological

Twisted

Tetris

Fractional

Entity extraction

Game for the pain

Private prisons

A bird in the hand

Tree in snow

Peking duck

Baz

On tip toes

Sunshine

Getting it back

The Joyous, Lake

An education

Ghost in the house

A solid thing

The floor

Battling

Ducks in the forest

Calisto

Body work

So much emptiness

Wormhole

A bit of a stretch

Do-over

The fall

Another time

Pippa!

L is for lady

After a storm

Walls and windows

Imaginary friends

Gentle creatures

Shotgun wedding

More and more like water

Basement dream

Lonely swimmer

Up in the air

Disappear

Events are objects

Home

Family history

Childlike

Made by rain

Rapunzel

Moonlight in Vermont

Adding layers

Visitors

Symmetry

Rural wisdom

A good place

Eliminate the love

Lucky duck

What next

By candlelight

An installation of interconnected memories using a network of color-coded strings running from picture to picture

My guides

Connections

Art elves

Hang

Like you

It all seemed so much bigger then

Mom's light

So afraid of it

The old familiar lake

Touch up

Talk, talk, talk

Keep it together

Land of plenty

The wobbles

A better home

Light to them

Ewok

The tides

American Hero

Washed out

The fading light

All the everything

First and last

Crazy sound

67% water

A whale of a time

Only a man

A long way

Careful

His soul

Feel the fall

Primary source

Thug life

The inside

Groupthink

Lonely rider

Reduced

Can't fight physics

Something in between

Long enough

Your age

Boom and doom

Quieter ways

Their wall

The wall or the sky

A presentation at the Shift Happens conference in York UK, exploring various storytelling projects

Bird man

That was yesterday

The Art Show At the End of the World

Icelandic Armada

New dirt

The valley

Another morning

Divided

Before

Haircut

Baptism

Airport owl

In the dark

The fast and the slow life

Holding on

You really couldn't say

The end of it

The inside

Close

Beautiful stage

Joel

Alley eyes

Don't die here

Leaves

A new kind of light

A modern view

In a fog

Some days

How they look

Memorial

Harbor life

4AM

Something we have here

The drunk man and the tourist

Getting over it

Don't look back

Mixer

Barbarians at the gates

Meeting Jonathan Harris

Half a man

A little space

A thinner man

A new kind of light

Going together and coming apart

Squid ink in the air

By doing nothing at all

Ahead

Painted exit signs

Marmalade

Body parts

Standing on your head

The sun

The cruelest

Barricades

A guy could develop a phobia

The cold

Tanks

Home

Moving

Eurovision!

Stranded

Here you always are

Clouds and coins

Half time

I don't think it's right to hold her now

It was just so easy

Closer

One thing

Mountains, mountains

Safe

Swiss cheese worlds

Coupling

The birds

Tunnels

Forever 21:00

Oceanic Abyss

So much silence

Tölva

Wash away the animal

Body

Face

Feet

A way out

In the sky and the sea

Siglufjörður

In one place for a while

Take the road and watch the sky

Eyjafjallajökull

But you don't look like you're going to die

Stepping

It sounded like pee

Volcano

Stueben

Feel it

Her web

Atlantis

The weather

Coming and going

West, Virginia

Something to hold

The more he saw the less he spoke

After

Everyone

Brandy's

What a day

Annie and Kyla

I used to see you

Jincey

Luna

Lara

Joy

Ela

Ryan

Jess

Dylan

Nico and Nic

Jincey

Day with Dad

The Japs and the Krauts

Tim

Secrets

Reciprocity

Average

Scripture

Farm girls

Lips

Young and old

Softness

Jared

Tallkat

Cold and Bold

Peers

Balloons

Closing

Time

End

Two

Blues

Bomb

Wink

Separation

Tom

Signs

Missile park

Rules

Auras

Struggle

NIMBY

Hurricane booth

Curiosity

Chapters

Away

Walls

Maya

Godfrey

Sailors

Vermont

Enchantment

Aliens

Taos

Gaps

Fooling around

Vasovagal

Animals

Puritans

Sunport

All you can do

The birds

Men at thirty

America

Saints

Burgers

Santa Fe

Owls

Coding

Lost angels

Silver Saddle

The soul of a story

Clues in the music

Parties

Vermonters

Davos

Kindergarten

Bunnies

DLD

Schumann’s

True nature

Angels

Kiva

Personal prisoners

Diners

Loneliest Road

Walkabout

Fields

New life

Mystery thing

Sep

Pilots

The garage

Portrait

Young people

Faceless chaser

Casey

Puppies

Frankie

Interiors

Return

Skeletons

Light in the snow

Still there

Strider

Amanda's house

Riverways

In the shower

Candle

Up in the air

Last day

Merging

Blue

Great Horned Owl

Succession

Clouds

Books

Number 27

Snow flowers

Repairs

Chatter

Eugene

Crash

New ice

26 below

Santa

Shenanigans

Location

Another me

Cindy's house

Signs

Outage

Bookish

Doors

Yellow

Boom

Patriot

Talmadge

Joy

Haircut

Snowfall

2012

Alter ego

Now/here

Cleansing

Mountains + Canyons

Separation 8

Separation 7

Separation 6

Separation 5

Separation 4

Separation 3

Separation 2

Separation 1

Reality

Surrogate

Needles

Gale

Oracle

Water logs

Cruiser

A book exploring human emotions as understood through Internet data, published by Simon & Schuster

An essay exploring the state of the digital world in 2009, and the challenges of building healthy spaces online

We Feel Fine

Goblins

Halloween Roads

Electric Reflections

Rainbow

Encounter

UCLA

Los(t) Angeles

Hot and cold

Kyla

Portland

Bookmarks

Moving

Directions

Family

Coastal

Fireflies

Visitor

Hatchet

Owl

Snow

Trees

Pegboard

Fingers

Forest

Ladder

Split

Oil and water

Reminder

Glass

Williams

Necklace

Lava field

Self portrait

Heaven

Spared

Jim

Moonlight

Raft

Grounding

Sisters men

New home

Hawks

Big Sky

Geyser

Visitors

Grassland

Lonely

Midwest

Morning

Bonnie Banks

Escalator

Men's room

Dad's house

Night light

Calm

Fia

Boundaries

Marshall

Quitting

Quinn

Childhood

Bunny

Boot camp

Reset

Brooklyn

Bedroom

Thirty

An interactive library emphasizing the interconnection of ideas, filled with hundreds of interviews with fringe thinkers

An (unrealized) project to travel from the southern tip of Africa to far eastern China, exchanging gifts along the way

An essay exploring the evolution of new creative mediums, delivered at a ‘Flash’ conference in the UK

A presentation at a ‘Flash’ conference in the UK, exploring the evolution of new creative mediums such as digital art

A fractured collage of sexual desire among men and women, created in two hours at a live event in Brooklyn, New York

An (unrealized) project to gather stories from China at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, commissioned by Kodak

A brief introduction to I Want You To Want Me, exploring the search for love and self in the world of online dating

An interactive portrait of the search for love (and self) through the world of online dating, commissioned by MoMA

A sequence of 3,214 images timed to match my heartbeat, taken over nine consecutive days in Barrow, Alaska

A presentation at the EG Conference in California, exploring experimental storytelling projects like The Whale Hunt and Balloons of Bhutan

A presentation at PopTech in Maine exploring interactive storytelling, including a live experiment with the gathered audience

An interactive system for generating new constellations, showing modern mythology as deduced from global news

A conversation with Coolhunting discussing physical sketchbooks and digital data-based projects like We Feel Fine and Universe

A presentation at the TED Conference exploring data-based storytelling projects We Feel Fine, Yahoo Time Capsule, and Universe

A time capsule (the world’s largest) whose contents were beamed into space as binary code using a laser

An interactive portrait of passion — from love to hate — using real-time data collected from blogs

A brief introduction to We Feel Fine — exploring the world of human emotions through large-scale blog analysis

An exploration of human emotion through large-scale blog analysis, expressed through six interactive movements

An interactive visualization of real-time science news as a playful particle system, commissioned by Seed Magazine

An insignia design for an annual competition at Princeton University celebrating the beauty of science imagery

An anonymous question and answer system with only one rule: to ask a question, you must first answer someone else’s

An (unrealized) installation using sheets of white paper, commissioned by the Ground Zero Freedom Center

An insignia for a news technology startup based in New York, showing the morning sunrise composed of many sources

An interactive mosaic of real-time blog images beginning with the letters V, O, R, and N — for Vorn Magazine

A brief introduction to 10x10 — exploring global news coverage each hour through photographic mosaics

An interactive mosaic of the pictures and words that define the time, updated automatically each hour by analyzing global news

A satirical website for a fictitious company selling products that capitalize on America’s fear of terrorism

An experiment in computer vision tracking techniques: the classic game of limbo as an act of surveillance

An interactive visualization of the 88,000 most frequently used English words, displayed as a very long sentence

A set of infographic maps commissioned by the International Networks Archive at Princeton University

A set of travel journals filled with watercolor paintings, pen and ink drawings, pasted plants, insects, and other ephemera

A comprehensive design system for a breath mint company, including logo, packaging, website, and other materials

An illustrated story about an Icelandic woman who travels by coincidence through all 50 U.S. states in alphabetical order

A news clustering service that automatically finds multiple perspectives on major international stories

A publication about world cultures via first-person travel narratives — created at Princeton University

A hand-painted mural for the Princeton dorm room known as ‘The Zoo’ — depicting its ten residents as jungle animals

A quarter design proposal for the State of Vermont, part of which was used in the coin’s final design

A set of 27 traditional ‘plein-air’ landscape paintings of the Pioneer Valley in western Massachusetts

A set of drawings from life made during four years of living and learning at Deerfield Academy in western Massachusetts

A set of pen-and-ink drawings of buildings and objects at a local museum, commissioned for their catalogs

A set of satirical cartoons created at Deerfield Academy, inspired by the legacy of political cartoonist Thomas Nast

A collection of drawings depicting imaginary superheroes and other fantasy figures, created throughout childhood

A collection of artwork created in the first fifteen years of my life, much of it at St. Bernard’s School in New York City