Sim Ciudad

About

Student Surveillance Research

Research I initiated in which we simulated school device configurations at the administrator, teacher, and student level to assess the privacy properities of content monitoring software used by schools in the name of student safety. We presented early findings at ReCAP Workshop 2025.

Watching U Watching Me

A short animated video piece documenting the emotional security of surveillance workers. Watch it on Vimeo at this link

Papernet

A secure, networked tool for automated destruction and emotional release. Read about how it's built on the git repository linked here.

Eyes From The Street

A course I developed and taught on using open-source intelligence to creatively communicate privacy issues. Find the syllabus on another part of my website linked here.

WiFi Whispers

An instrument I made that translates your internet speed into an algorithmic music composition developed with p5.sound. Run it from my website and see the code at the on Codeberg.

discernible.tech

A data exploration tool and experience related to surveillance infrastructure in Brooklyn. Read about it and use it at discernible.tech.

reCAPTCHA

An interactive, audiovisual performance project I perform sound in alongside video artist Syd Miller. See videos of our sets on our website https://captcha.mov.

ShotSpotter Study

Analysis and visualization of open data published by the city of Chicago on it's use of AI-enabled microphones for gunshot detection. Read what I gathered in my analysis on Medium.

MTA Vend

A minigame made in Unity that imagined if subway ads went from images to video to vending machines.

Memory Playthrough

An short animated documentary I made about my hometown. Watch it on my Vimeo page.

Release

An album I made during lockdown mainly using Ableton and voice. Listen to it on Bandcamp.

Insecam Roulette

A streaming service that connects users through insecure cameras listed online close to their location. Read about it on the git repository.

Prepared

An algorithmically edited archival documentary about women doomsday preppers presented alongside a web poem by Serena Devi. Watch it on another part of this website

slowchat

made in collab with jo suk

A paper-based video chatting platform made with Jo Suk. See more on git repository.

Bot Sermon

A small language model I built from a mix of early computer literature and religious sermons that run as a Twitter bot for about a year or so.

Virus-Free Personality Quiz

A net art piece I made that used an early LLM API to generate oddly specific adverts based on user inputs. Read about it on the git repository.

Serenity Local

A small sidewalk sound bath.