I’m deeply upset to read about another murder of Asian person in NYC. Christina Yuna Lee was murdered in her home on February 14, 2021. How is this not a hate crime? From the Times, “Though the police have not called the killing a hate crime, attacks against Asian Americans…

Deem journal organized an online forum that featured Mia Birdsong, Zenat Begum, myself, and moderated by Ari Melenciano. January 21, 2022. The streaming can be found here for now. Here are some of the questions Ari sent out before the forum and my notes. Questions: What have been some guiding…

A story that celebrates the ways in which you’ve failed at the American Dream — I recently contributed to Deem Journal Issue 3. My article Other Networks is available online. Deem is a ‘biannual print journal and online platform focused on design as social practice’. I’ve been very much enjoying the articles and the lush visual elements. …

What if the Internet is like a garden, full of moss, lichens, and mushrooms? What would it be like if humans could visit this lush, natural environment and listen to the tales of the software-plants, and rest against the hardware-earth, and exchange vital forms of care with various data-creatures? …

The Ethics of Care and Maintenance I was asked to write an introduction to the Korean translation of How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell. I was glad to take up the opportunity to revisit Jenny’s book, this time in Korean. The text ended up becoming an afterword 해제. …

2021 was a year of solemn reckonings, difficult decisions, regrets and yet, love and hope. As we near the new year, I’m writing with a sense of humbleness and gratitude, longing for friends far and near. …

I am committed to supporting the accessibility and inclusion of disabled people creating and experiencing art. Technology often comes into the picture, as an artistic medium(code, hardware, web, interaction) or as a communication tool(Alt-Text, Sign Language Interpretation, Visual description, and more). For my position on disability and technology, check out…

An essay I wrote in the summer of 2020 with Iretiolu Akinrinade for The Community and the Algorithm: A Digital Interactive Poetics. The anthology is edited by Andrew Klobucar and is available at Vernon Press. There’s an online book launch on October 1, 2021. …

Keynote: Interweaving Poetic Code Register here New York- and Seoul-based artist and educator Taeyoon Choi and New York-based professor of media studies Alexander R. Galloway join to consider the common underpinnings of textile and code, including those of duality and opposition, from humans and machines to production and philosophy. How…