I’m an anthropologist and new media artist currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau. As part of my graduate studies in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, I wrote a dissertation, “Special Affect: Special Effects, Sensation, and Futures in Post-Socialist Bulgaria,” focused on the pop music and popular television of Bulgaria in the early 2000's and its role in visualizing Bulgaria’s post-socialist/pre-EU future.

In my artistic work and research, I like to say that I approach media as both material and as a set of practices. I am particularly interested in non-meaning based models of theory where affects and sensations are give as much weight as the politics of representation. Most recently, I have been researching the development of 3d animation and exploring ways to use it in my work. Specifically, I am interested in the potential of open source work flows.