Statement:
My work evolves from interdisciplinary research and creates conditions for interactive experimentation through performative, sculptural, socially engaged, and conceptual practices. This project-based work utilizes context sensitive strategies in order to connect meaning to form on a variety of scales. Previous projects have explored subjects like communication, technology, nature, and public art. My current research explores systems, neural aesthetics, and machine learning as they relate to embodiment, materiality, sociality and ethics.
Creating playful moments of connection, engaged discussions, provoking questions, and disrupting conventional patterns of behavior are all important aims of my projects in general. They are designed to utilize resources at hand, be minimally invasive, temporary, and respond to the complex set of indices created by the unique assemblages of vernacular materials in any given location. The interplay between the conceptual architecture, subjects, site, in-situ resource utilization, and community engagement create a kind of feedback mechanism in the system of the work. Each component and design element feeds into the other which helps characterize the work as an indeterminate, contingent, and fugitive practice.
Bio:
Daniel is an artist and organizer, has created performance projects for the Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and is the former director of Mobius Inc., an experimental artist group and artist-run center in Boston. He has presented work nationally and internationally with Grace Exhibition Space (New York City), Defibrillator Gallery (Chicago), Living Arts (Tulsa), Le Lieu (Quebec City), Venice International performance Art Week (Venice, Italy), Bbeyond (Belfast), and in numerous public contexts. Daniel was the Distinguished Art Fellow in the graduate program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's College of Visual and Performing Arts from 2019 to 2022. Currently, he is a faculty fellow at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches in the Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary departments with a focus on developing curriculum that engages with artificial intelligence.
