During the day I am the “Visual Strategist” for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology where I develop creative ways of communicating. My work ranges from art pieces in museums to ways of communicating to politicians. Installations for JPL include “The Hidden Light”, about finding planets around other stars, and “The Big Playground”, in which a hole drilled into a grain of sand shows the scale of the universe and the small area in which we have found hundreds of planets in our own galaxy.

After doing the dishes, reading bedtime stories to my kids, and spending time with my wife, I work on other projects. I am curating a show about data and art that will open in 2009. I recently finished an installation using a substance called aerogel which is 99.8% air and has been used by NASA to capture dust from a comet. This installation entitled “Solid Smoke,” is at the Technorama in Wintertur, Switzerland. In addition I am part of a team creating a 108’ data driven sculpture that will be the centerpiece artwork for the new extension of the San Jose Airport.

I graduated in 2002 in the graphic design program at Art Center College of Design and currently live in South Pasadena with my wife and three children.

(Photo by Spencer Lowell)