Not us: no

It began with our fathers,

I’ve heard.

— Alkaios

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand.

— Italo Calvino

The past is continually changing— or at least seems to be, as we view it.

— Ted Nelson

I am a multimedia artist, researcher, and writer based in New York.

I research social histories of technology and media.

I think about the ways in which the past is viewed through the present, and the present is viewed through the past; how we document our world, and how we access those documents.


I use mostly video, text, digital drawing and collage, and performance lecture as my mediums.

I produce and co-host the podcast Our Friend the Computer highlighting lesser-known histories of computing. It is a sister project of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado.

I am currently a Y10 Incubator Member of NEW INC, New Museum, New York.

I am part of the Superkilogirls embedded research group at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. We are researching the material infrastructures of computing, its entanglement with women’s labour, and how the historical marginalisation of these efforts reverberate now.

I am a contributing editor of the Millennium Film Journal.
I focus my work on artists and filmmakers working with archives, cultural media reinterpretation, personal histories, and on stories and creators from Latin America.

Much of my work explores Chilean history and what it means to be second generation exile from dictatorship.
how do we heal intergenerational legacies of state violence? how do we form cultural identity from afar? how do we build connection and find community across past rifts?

e.g.

I made a film and series of prints titled Vecino Vecino which used archival research, mis-translation, and re-performance to analyse uses of documentary to broadcast resistance efforts from the 80s to today.

I created an interaction browser-based documentary looking at socialist uses of computer networks before and after the dictatorship (from Project Cybersyn to Instagram) called REDES: bread and justice, peaches and bananas.

I investigated the geopolitics of the 1980s edu-computer game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? in a series of prints and an essay titled Hasta Carmen.