Method
Research through Design
The dissertation frames quilt-making as a rigorous site of inquiry where embodied material practice, reflection, and computational media reveal how AI affects agency and interpretation.
Dissertation portfolio
Facing AI: A Critical Design Inquiry
A curated academic-art presentation of three quilt-based dissertation projects investigating AI, human agency, material knowledge, synthetic certainty, augmented reality, and critical design inquiry.
Concept
Synthetic certainty
The projects critique the persuasive coherence of AI-generated content when synthetic images appear meaningful, neutral, or final without further human intervention.
Practice
Human agency
The quilts demonstrate how deliberate artistic intervention can challenge algorithmic bias, resist passive acceptance, and foreground accountability in AI-mediated creative work.
Major projects
Three quilt inquiries
Matrix of Discomfort
Critiques synthetic face imagery, limited representation, and AI as a creativity support tool.
Facing Assemblages
Uses dye, quilting, face-bits, Brown Bag quilting, and generative systems to explore agency.
AI Dreams of a Techno Quilt
Examines what is lost when AI-generated imagery becomes the source of a physical quilt design.