Works

An interactive performance and computational poem exploring humanity's relationship with AI. The piece imagines futures where humanity doesn't scale up but scales down, proposing poetic metamorphosis through symbiosis rather than technological transcendence. Participants complete open-ended prompts while the performer responds live, leaving traces and mutations in the poem's digital body. HTML becomes sacred, dropdown menus hold grief, and tabs unfold confessionals.

Part I of the "Singulars" series. Stages a daily poetic duel between a human poet and a language model trained exclusively on poetry. Inspired by AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol, creativity emerges through confrontation rather than isolation. Participants place pink carnation dots beneath preferred poems, with votes determining subsequent learning cycles. Pink carnations traditionally symbolize remembrance.

A speculative narrative set in fictional "New Beirut" where a red line appears mysteriously. Unfolds through a layered score combining HTML poetry, news broadcasts, family stories, and border interrogations. Weaves movement, memory, and testimony exploring how migration reshapes body and language. Features an Arabic zajal refrain returning across timelines. Culminates in a collective digital memory atlas where audience shares personal "red lines" - locations of home and belonging.

A ritual descent (katabasis) woven between Beirut and San Francisco's Tenderloin. Explores belonging to places "built on bones" - BO18 nightclub constructed atop the Karantina massacre site; The Hamilton hotel overlooking pandemic-era urban collapse. Performance interrogates how hope curdles into fatalism, fatalism into myth. Concludes with an audience invitation "downstairs, for tea, for testimony, for shared ground."

Six artists surrender flesh, sounds, and thoughts to train a model functioning as collaborative director rather than assistant. Participants' faces, voices, and writings become dataset; the fine-tuned model speaks, choreographs, and guides performers through live instructions. Performers become puppets of their collective digital ghost. Theater becomes ritual of distributed agency and surrender.

A traveling ritual inviting participants to reclaim digital agency through "queering functionality." Opening ritual rooted in queer migration mythology precedes collaborative site-building using Glitch.com and ChatGPT. Participants create websites that flirt, refuse proper loading, and ask questions rather than answer. Results form a shared "digital village" - interconnected queer poetic web galaxy.

Deserve It is an immersive performance where viewers confront a haunting simulation of the migrant experience. Sitting behind a screen, they fill out shifting bureaucratic forms as the artist enacts their choices in real time. It's part installation, part slow ritual, unfolding over six hours, and asks: what does it mean to perform worthiness? To surrender? To glitch inside a system that keeps looping?

Opens with the accusatory prompt: "Are you carrying weapons?" Checkboxes evade the cursor; each interaction mimics the psychological toll of border scrutiny. A green success screen burns emotionally, declaring "299 days" for document arrival. Distills the border-crossing experience into digital form, weaponizing interface design against user agency.

A computational poetry laboratory exploring "non-human poets" and experimental language interfaces.

A structured poetic confrontation between human and machine with daily voting cycles and mutual reinforcement.

Third installment in the "Singulars" series featuring poet-machine duels with audience voting determining system updates.

Whomp is a poetic AI simulacrum fine-tuned on Halim Madi's voice and five queer poets. It turns scam texts into viral, uncanny verse. A meditation on authorship, surveillance, and queer futurity, Whomp explores how language multiplies, echoes, and outlasts the body. It's poetry as virus, poet as occupier, an eternal alter ego speaking to audiences not yet born.

Borrow & Never Give Back is a cut/paste poetics project grounded in appropriation and remix. Through collaged scam messages, deformed motivational quotes, and repurposed job listings, the work performs a politics of literary theft. The title reclaims a slur against immigrants, those who 'steal and never return', as an artistic strategy. The result: computational poems and visual pieces that scavenge beauty from empire's debris.

Re/declarations is a poetic remix of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. In collaboration with The Verse Verse and friends Chase McCoy and Evan Stites-Clayton, the project reclaims the founding text through erasure and computational recomposition. Visitors mint new declarations, re-written by those left out of the original 56 signatories, and collectively reimagine a more inclusive nation. The project lives as NFTs, an interactive website, and a physical installation.

American Metabolisis explores assimilation as digestion, how migrants, queers, and artists are metabolized by empire and how we metabolize it in return. Through archival receipts, misnaming rituals, and poetic computation, the work transforms bureaucratic residue into lyric form. Each misspelled coffee cup becomes a data point in belonging's slow experiment, a study of how identity dissolves and reforms inside another body.

Avenir was an ephemeral art and political theory project that unfolded as a series of workshops and performances across Paris and Sao Paulo. It critiqued Westphalian political structures and offered art as a sovereign space beyond representation. From museum interventions to participatory societal prototypes, Avenir staged radical alternatives to the nation-state, inviting participants to dwell in the unknown, live dangerous ideas, and momentarily untitle the world.