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The author explores the promise of a variety of models and materials for generating new forms for art and architecture. She recounts her ongoing search for viable models for her art. Initially this quest led her to research the utopian architecture of Bruno Taut's Crystal Chain Correspondence and then to experiments by scientists Per Bak and Kan Chen that utilized dominoes. This resulted in her exploration of the nonlinear dynamics of generative systems, which continue to hold yet untapped potential for art.

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This meditation on how being alive is being vulnerable, and on the senses in which a person, a city, a people can be vulnerable to one another and to their milieus, draws on the medieval history of Venice and its sister cities, as well as recent work in theoretical biology. It touches on the drive toward invulnerability via mechanizing and replacing judgment.

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Language Is Leaving Me, An AI Cinematic Opera of the Skin is a
mixed-reality performance installation that focuses on AI, algorithmic
rendering, sound, and biometrics through the lens of epigenetic, or otherwise
inherited, traumatic memories of diasporic cultures. It examines multilingual
and multi-visual presentations of simple text prompts, commonly referred to as