Curriculum Vitae

Awards

  1. American Trust for the British Library Research Fellowship, 2026
  2. Center for Book Arts Research Fellowship, 2026
  3. Best Zine, Metalabel, 2025
  4. Honorable Mention for Taste Book, C2A, 2025
  5. Honorable Mention for FWB App, C2A 2024
  6. Official Selection, NYC Experimental Film Festival, 2024
  7. Honoree Fast Company Innovation by Design for FWB App, 2023
  8. NEW INC New Museum Incubator Fellow, 2023
  9. Parsons President’s Scholarship (full ride), 2021 ($100,000)
  10. Student Valedictorian Commencement Speaker, 2023
  11. Consumer Reports Innovation Lab Fellowship ($50,000)
  12. Silver Muse Design Award, 2023
  13. Silver Vega Design Award, 2023
  14. Angel Orensanz Prize 2023 at Art Film Festival for my short film “A Single Spartan Girl”
  15. McGill University Li Ka Shing Scholarship for International Business, 2016 ($20,000)
  16. Parsons Dean List, 2023
  17. McGill Dean List, 2014
  18. Senior Literary Award, 2014
  19. Prix Aubade, 2014

Press

  1. “Going Viral No Longer Means What You Think It Does”, Inc., Jessica Stillman, September 2026
  2. “Google’s Founders Said No Evil. 22 Years Later, What Happened?”, Playboy, September 2026
  3. “You’re Thinking Too Much About Online Trends”, WIRED Magazine, August 2026
  4. Interview with Progression to Analog, Caitlyn Begg, July 2026
  5. Sex Talk with Lola Dement Myers, Sex Magazine, July 2026
  6. On aesthetic labels, ReadyMag, July 2026
  7. On aesthetic labels, It’s Nice That, May 2026
  8. White Hot Magazine, June 2026
  9. On Art and Aliens, Read Copy, April 2026
  10. On Checkpoints, Pitchfork, March 2026
  11. On Wallets, New York Magazine, February 2026
  12. On Necromemetics, 404 Media, January 2026
  13. On 2016 as an aesthetic, The Fader, January 2026
  14. Interview with The Culture Journalist with Emily Friedlander, December 2025
  15. Interview with The Culture Journalist with Emily Friedlander, September 2025
  16. Interview with Middlebrow Podcast with Dan Rosen and Brian Park, December 2024
  17. Vaporware with Daniel Keller, October 2024
  18. On Airport Style, New York Magazine, December 2025
  19. On the Future of AI, SSENSE, December 2025
  20. On Digital Folk Art, Art in America, December 2025
  21. Dirt Magazine, December 2025
  22. On the Trad Movement, GQ, November 2025
  23. On Skims and the perfect female body, The Fader, October 2025
  24. “Summer Plans”, SSENSE, 2025
  25. https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/mythologies-for-a-spiritually-void-time, 2025
  26. https://artdaily.com/news/183394/SuperRare-s-new-gallery-space-OFFLINE-opens-to-the-public, 2025
  27. https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/culture/summer-plans-2025, 2025
  28. “The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture”, The New Yorker, Kyle Chayka, October 2024
  29. “Stephen Thaler’s Quest to Get His ‘Autonomous’ AI Legally Recognized Could Upend Copyright Law Forever”, Art in America, Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, January 2024
  30. Designer Feature by DesignTO, 2024
  31. Mention in Mission Local, 2024
  32. Interview in Dazed Magazine, 2023
  33. Member Spotlight by New Media Caucus, 2023
  34. Mention by Future Commerce, 2023
  35. Mention by Rhizome, 2023
  36. Mention in Forbes, 2023
  37. Mention in Dirt, 2023
  38. Spotlight by SMU, 2023
  39. Interview on The Culture Journalist Podcast, 2023
  40. Interview on Nicstalgia Podcast, 2023
  41. Interview on Contain Podcast, 2023
  42. Interview on Boys Club Podcast, 2023
  43. Featured in GQ and GQ France, 2023

Projects, Leadership, and Community Involvement

  • Youth Ambassador - Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Canada, 2016-2025
  • Board Member - Reason d’Etre, Toronto, Canada, 2019-Present
  • Board Member - Festival des Jardins de Metis, Quebec, Canada, 2020-2025
  • Board Member - PLURI, Montreal, Canada, 2020-Present

Publications and Talks

Speaking Engagements

  1. “Quantification is Death”, FWB Fest, July 2026
  2. “On Taste”, Eigen, San Francisco, July 2026
  3. “Why Are There No New Aesthetics?”, TIAT, San Francisco, July 2026
  4. “Noise, Signal, Slop”, TIAT, San Francisco, July 2026
  5. “Balkanization and Babelification of the Internet”, Are.na and Triple Canopy, NYC, June 2026
  6. “The Physics of Online Friendship”, Mozilla Foundation, New York, May 2026
  7. “An Inconsistent Triad”, Three Conversations, New York, May 2026 (with Genevieve Goffman, Ruby Bailey and Bri Griffin)
  8. “Prophets and Protocols”, Somerset House, London, May 2026
  9. “On New Aesthetics”, Rutgers University, New Jersey, April 2026
  10. “Why Are There No New Aesthetics?”, Gray Area, San Francisco, March 2026
  11. “A Taxonomy of Slop”, DOG, San Francisco, March 2026
  12. “Is AI Making Us Cyborgs”, Fact 26 / ACMI, Keynote, Melbourne, February 2026
  13. “On Taste”, Heft Gallery, NYC, January 2026
  14. “Self 3.0”, World Futurist Symposium, Paris, June 2024
  15. “On Skibidi with Aidan Walker”, Interview, Afterword Bookstore, NYC, January 2026
  16. “Conversation with Nina Davies”, Interview, Western Front, Vancouver, January 2026
  17. “Art - Dorian Electra Book Launch Event”, Montez Press Radio / Perfectly Imperfect, Performance, November 2025
  18. “Art, Science and Invention”, Seneca Labs, Panel, November 2025
  19. “Prompt and Purpose”, Presentation, OpenAI / Flora AI, NYC, August 2025
  20. “Darkness After the Apocalypse”, Keynote, FWB Fest, California, August 2025
  21. “Eternal Sunshine - Maia Wyman Book Launch Event”, Interview, July 2025
  22. “A Brief History of Taste”, Lecture, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2025
  23. “How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Slop”, Keynote, Boston, March 2025
  24. “What Is Truth”, School of Visual Arts, Lecture, February 2025
  25. “Equity, Creativity and Ownership”, Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Panel, February 2025
  26. “On Gatekeeping”, Protein Agency, Panel, December 2024
  27. “Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art”, Scope Art Fair, Miami, December 2024
  28. “Digital Folk Artist”, ArtNews, November 2024
  29. “Hyperoptimization”, Office of Applied Strategy, Panel, NYC, 2024
  30. “On Memories”, Arena / Montez Radio Press, Reading, July 2024
  31. “AI Art and Ethics”, NYU, Panel, 2024
  32. Guest Lecture, SFPC, “The Treachery of Images”, 2024
  33. “Being On Line”, Museum of Modern Art, Future Commerce Conference, NYC, 2024
  34. “Lines - AI & Fashion”, NEW INC Showcase, NYC, 2024
  35. “Crypto, Art, Provenance”, Uncommons, NYC, 2024
  36. “AI & Creativity”, SeedAI x SXSW, Austin, 2024
  37. “The Treachery of Images”, CAA Conference, Chicago, 2024
  38. “The Devil You Know”, Betaworks Ignite Talks, NYC, 2024
  39. “Humans, AI and Reality”, Keynote, RADAR DAO, 2023
  40. “Why People Fall for Robots”, Keynote, NPC Day, 2023
  41. “Avatar Identity Crisis”, Panel, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2023
  42. “Against the Instrumental Convergence Thesis”, AI Safety Conference, 2023
  43. “Figure/Ground” (On AI and Images), FWB Fest, Idyllwild, 2023
  44. “AI and Music”, New York Music Week, NYC, 2023
  45. “Branding in the Age of AI”, Retail Industry Conference, Chicago, 2023.
  46. “Art and Commerce”, Museum of Modern Art, Future Commerce Conference, NYC, 2023
  47. “Web3 Social”, Panel, NFTNYC, NYC, 2023
  48. “Black Artists Burnout”, with Greg Ketant, Rhizome/New Museum, NYC, 2023
  49. “How to DAO”, University of Pennsylvania, Blockchain Conference, Philadelphia, 2023
  50. “Artists and AI”, Moderator, Hennessy Event at Miami Art Week, Miami, 2022
  51. “On Lore and Beyond”, with Libby Mars, Pioneer Works, NYC, 2022
  52. “Notes on Gospel for a New Century”, Transfer Gallery, 2021
  53. “The Economics of Digital Art”, Keynote, Concordia University, Montreal, 2021
  54. “Foray into Tumblr-core”, Keynote, Abuja Art Week, Abuja, Nigeria, 2021
  55. “Cyber-Dada”, Keynote, DEL Conference, Parsons School of Design, 2021
  56. “Cadaver.exe”, Estonian Digital Humanities Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, 2019
  57. “Cadaver.exe”, The Lit Exhibit, New York, 2019
  58. “Why Won’t People on the Internet Let Things Die”, Thirst for Reality Symposium, University of Quebec in Montreal, 2018
  59. “Se donner une voix en-ligne”, Canada Research Chair in Digital Art and Literature, University of Quebec Montreal, 2018

Publications

  1. “Treachery of Images”, Bianjie Systems, July 2026
  2. “Machinic Taste”, Le Random Art, June 2026
  3. “Gay Guy Music Video Night”, Family Style, June 2026
  4. “Interview with Andrew Thomas Huang”, Fuser, June 2026
  5. “Greater New York Is Not Afraid of the Politics of Local Community”, Ocula, April 2026
  6. “Looksmaxxing and the Quantification of Culture”, SSENSE, March 2026
  7. “Put Your Phone Down”, Metropol Magazine, February 2026
  8. “Salad Days - Portrait of Brian Oakes”, Spike Magazine, February 2026
  9. “Being a Hedi Boy”, Essay, Dirt, January 2026
  10. “Image Syncers”, Essay, Western Front, January 2026
  11. “The Death of Images”, Essay, Ocula, December 2025
  12. “Alone in Self-Driving Cars”, Zine / Matt Klein, Essay, December 2025
  13. “Tom Lloyd Forever Shines a Light on Black Art”, Essay, Ocula, November 2025
  14. “Hearth”, Essay in Luke Shannon Catalog, Heft Gallery, November 2025
  15. “New Love Languages”, Research Paper, Protein Agency, October 2025
  16. “AI Realism”, Essay in Neurealism book, October 2025
  17. “On Mapplethorpe”, Shooster Arts and Literature, July 2025
  18. “Art Making Machines”, Essay, Toledo Art Museum, July 2025
  19. “Always Ahead”, Aspen Art Museum, July 2025
  20. “The Garbs of Doom”, SSENSE, March 2025
  21. “The Studio Is a Cauldron for My Reckoning”, Ocula, May 2025
  22. “Necromemetics”, Essay, Do Not Research, April 2025
  23. “A Few Essays on Taste”, Book, 131 Press, April 2025
  24. “The Treachery of Images”, Essay, Singapore Art Museum, March 2025
  25. “High Resolution”, Artforum, October 2024
  26. “Why Drake is the most memed rapper”, Dazed, 2024
  27. “A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints”, Book, Irrelevant Press, 2023
  28. “A Place Apart”, Essay, Spike Art Magazine, 2023
  29. “A Eulogy for Checkpoints”, Essay, Do Not Research Annual, 2023
  30. “10 Ways to Survive the Textpocalypse”, Byline Magazine, 2023
  31. “Searching for Sentience”, Article, AI & Society, 2023
  32. “A Plague in Cyberspace”, xCoAx / School of X, Weimar, Germany, July 2023
  33. “5 Tips for a Post-Truth World”, Academic Article, Commonplace Knowledge Futures, 2023
  34. “Fanfiction after AI”, Essay, Zora Zine, 2023
  35. “The Treachery of Images”, Essay, Outland, 2023
  36. “On Furries and Trustlessness”, Essay, FWB Magazine, 2023
  37. “Stonemilker”, Book, Nueoi Press, 2022.
  38. “All The Things We Lost”, Essay, Projet Casa Catalog, “Ode to Science”, 2022
  39. “Build It and They Will Come”, Essay, Station Magazine, 2022
  40. “Gospel for a New Century”, Essay, Transfer Gallery Catalog, “Pieces of Me”, 2021
  41. “When’s the last time”, Poem, Left Gallery Catalog, “Rite of Access”, 2019
  42. “Crimes: A Sonic Exploration of Colonial Injuries”, Feminist Review, vol. 127, no. 1 (March 2021): 52-55
  1. The Last Screening, THE GALLERY, NYC, June 2026
  2. Stigmergy, Group Show, National Communication Museum, Melbourne, May 2026
  3. XTRTRRSTRLS, Screening, Wythe Hotel, Acompi, February 2026
  4. New Media Expo, Group Show, Offline Gallery, January 2026
  5. Christmas in Tribeca, Solo Show, Tribeca Gallery, December 2025
  6. Synthetics, Metalabel, Performance, July 2025
  7. 404_not_found, Interaccess / Vector Festival, Toronto, Group Show, July 2025
  8. Mythologies For A Spiritually Void Time, Offline Gallery, NYC, Group Show, July 2025
  9. Lavender Town, HEART Gallery, NYC, Group Show, October 2024

Jury Member

  1. Titles XYZ Arts Program, 2026
  2. Tiny Web Awards, 2026
  3. USA Art Grant, 2026
  4. Counterstructural Commons Residency, Mozilla Foundation and Rhizome, 2026
  5. Ada X Residency, 2020-