Michael is an artist and designer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He crafts late-night gathering spaces that nurture collective aliveness. His practice spans lighting, projection, installation, and event design.
I’m obsessed with how light bends social space—how brightness, color, scale, and texture shape movement, shift mood, and guide how we relate. Lighting can just as easily exhaust, overwhelm, and oppress as it can invite presence and vulnerability. How can light create conditions for connection? I’m designing and live-programming lighting systems for dance parties, dinners, and lounge-style gatherings as part of a queer practice rooted in care, attunement, and community-building.
My lighting practice and my installation work inform one another. I work primarily with video, sound, and projection to construct room-scale installations that resensitize and reorient awareness. At the heart of my practice is an archive of video footage I’ve recorded documenting the incomprehensible complexity and rhythmic chaos of nature. I physicalize these videos with projection mapping to explore the space between spectacle and intimacy while inviting quiet reflection.
I earned a B.A. from Brown University’s Honors Visual Arts program in 2025, receiving the Ann Belsky Moranis Award for my work. Recently, I've worked on immersive dome show production with Cosm Studios and managed the Brown Design Workshop.
I’m obsessed with how light bends social space—how brightness, color, scale, and texture shape movement, shift mood, and guide how we relate. A lighting designer’s choices can just as easily oppress and exhaust as they can invite presence and vulnerability. How can light create conditions for connection? I’ve been designing and live-programming lighting systems for dance parties, dinners, and lounge-style gatherings as part of a queer practice rooted in care, attunement, and community-building.
My lighting practice and my installation work inform one another. I work primarily with video, sound, and projection to construct room-scale installations that resensitize and reorient awareness. At the heart of my practice is an archive of video footage I’ve recorded documenting the incomprehensible complexity and rhythmic chaos of nature. I physicalize these videos with projection mapping to explore the space between spectacle and intimacy while inviting quiet reflection.
I earned a B.A. from Brown University’s Honors Visual Arts program in 2025. Recently, I've worked as an immersive media intern with Cosm Studios and managed the Brown Design Workshop.
Michael is an artist and designer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He crafts late-night gathering spaces that nurture collective aliveness. His practice spans lighting, projection, installation, and event design.
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I’m obsessed with how light bends social space—how brightness, color, scale, and texture shape movement, shift mood, and guide how we relate. Lighting can just as easily exhaust, overwhelm, and oppress as it can invite presence and vulnerability. How can light create conditions for connection? I’m designing and live-programming lighting systems for dance parties, dinners, and lounge-style gatherings as part of a queer practice rooted in care, attunement, and community-building.
My lighting practice and my installation work inform one another. I work primarily with video, sound, and projection to construct room-scale installations that resensitize and reorient awareness. At the heart of my practice is an archive of video footage I’ve recorded documenting the incomprehensible complexity and rhythmic chaos of nature. I physicalize these videos with projection mapping to explore the space between spectacle and intimacy while inviting quiet reflection.
I earned a B.A. from Brown University’s Honors Visual Arts program in 2025. Recently, I've worked as an immersive media intern with Cosm Studios and managed the Brown Design Workshop.