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Recognition & GROWTH
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Leonardo Seed Grant recipient
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$175,00 Public Art Comission
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Selected for the AIGA Arizona BEST of 2024 Gallery
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Featured by AIGA Arizona
Press
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Featured by The Mesa Tribune
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Featured by MesaAZ.gov
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Featured by The Collector
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Featured by Mesa Now
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Featured by Yahoo.com
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Featured by Arizona Board of Regents
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LASER Talks at Tempe
PHOTO GALLERY
SENTIENT RESONACE
Public Art Piece at Mesa City Hall Lobby
2025
THE Mediated Membranes
Ecosystem
What began as a locally rooted project funded by the ASU Leonardo Planetary Health Seed Grant has grown into a nationally recognized model for the future of public art. Mediated Membranes is an interdisciplinary initiative that transforms real-time environmental data into dynamic media displays, creating a living interface between architecture, technology, and the community.
SENSORY GARDEN
Originally deployed across the façades of Mesa’s City Hall and ASU’s MIX Center, MEDIAted Membranes explores how architecture can serve as a canvas for environmental storytelling. Equipped with rooftop sensors and connected to the Ambient Weather Network, the project processes over 1.5 million data points monthly using AI, translating metrics like air quality and temperature into shifting visual experiences. This innovative integration of public space, sustainability, and immersive media invites the community to reflect on environmental change in real time. A sensory garden installed atop the MIX Center further deepens this connection, turning the building itself into a responsive system—alive with the data that surrounds it.
This groundbreaking work led to a $175,000 public art commission for Sentient Resonance, a permanent installation now housed in the lobby of Mesa City Hall. Building on the core ideas of MEDIAted Membranes, Sentient Resonance visualizes live environmental data from the city’s own databases, transforming air quality, weather conditions, and more into a constantly evolving digital artwork.By merging civic architecture with real-time data, Sentient Resonance makes environmental awareness a central part of public life. Its community-centric design includes an annual graduate student exhibition, created in collaboration with a local advisory board to promote co-creation and ongoing engagement.
Every hour, the system captures a digital image that interprets the surrounding environment at that moment. These images accumulate into larger compositions called environmental fossils. Each one visually encodes how the atmosphere has changed over days, weeks, months, and eventually years. These single images reveal the passage of time not through motion but through the layering of moments, transforming data into visual memory.
The system becomes increasingly active during events such as monsoons and dust storms, amplifying the visual intensity of the piece.
SENSORY GARDEN
Located on the rooftop of ASU’s MIX Center, the sensory garden is a living extension of MEDIAted Membranes. Designed as both a contemplative space and a data collection site, the garden features a range of native and adaptive plant species alongside a network of environmental sensors. These sensors gather real-time information—such as temperature, humidity, and air quality—which feeds directly into the media systems powering the project’s dynamic visual displays. The garden not only enhances biodiversity and well-being within the urban environment but also reinforces the project’s mission to connect people with the ecological systems that surround them.
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Together, MEDIAted Membranes and Sentient Resonance show how public art can drive civic dialogue, foster environmental consciousness, and turn data into emotion. These projects demonstrate a future where cities not only function smartly—but feel smartly, too.
