Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Web development, 2012—present Currently ongoing. The site is designed under the direction of the MCA and was initially implemented by Robb Irrgang. I’ve been working to migrate it to WordPress. I’m using off-the-shelf plugins where possible, creating custom plugins where required, and refactoring or rewriting front end code as I go. Read more

Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles

Web design and development, 2012 I was brought into this project by the exhibit developers, THINK Jacobson & Roth. I created a web-based media component for the exhibition Origins: The Birth and Rise of Chinese American Communities in Los Angeles that allows visitors to create a living document of the Chinese community in the San Gabriel Valley. Read more

WordPress 3.5 media_order Issue Affects Custom Galleries

The revamped Add Media interface in WordPress 3.5 improves a great many things about media management. It’s fantastic and thanks go out to the team for all the hard work! Unfortunately, the removal of a visible menu order field and the associated “Sort by Ascending / Descending” links has created an issue that affects some plugins and themes. Read more

The Man Who Figured out How to Do Many Things At Once

Personal project, 2011 What’s your favorite super power? Flight? Strength? Invisibility? For as far back as I can remember, mine has had to do with time: I wish I could do two things at once. So I made this web comic/art piece about what that might be like. Read more

Website for Photographer Samuel James

I’m happy to launch a new website for documentary photographer Samuel A. James, an American working in Nigeria. The site runs the WordPress theme/plugin package I’ve dubbed “Carolyn”, after its initial commissioner, Carolyn Drake. The idea behind this package is to create a system that can be used to quickly deploy portfolio sites of a certain kind. Read more

Template Part Shortcode and Carolyn Google Analytics WordPress Plugins

I’ve released a couple more plugins to the WordPress plugin directory. They are the result of day-to-day maintenance on a variety of WordPress sites. Template Part Shortcode Template parts are reusable snippets of code stored in your theme directory. Normally, they are called by other template files using the get_template_part() function. Read more

Convenience Gallery

Web design and development, 2011—2 Convenience is a window gallery in Toronto. It’s a simple, modern space so, working with owners Scott Sorli and Flavio Trevisan, I created a website to match. Read more

AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize

Web development, 2009—10 The AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize is one of Canada’s largest purses for contemporary photography. Previous to 2013 it was known as The Grange Prize. While the short list is chosen by a panel of curators, the winner is decided by online public ballot. Read more

Art Gallery of Ontario

Web design and development, 2008—10 In 2008, designer Andrea Kreuger and I joined the AGO staff as the in-house web team. Active in strategy, process, workflow and project management, we drove improvement and change. We undertook a comprehensive redesign and redevelopment effort, interacting with all aspects of the institution to entirely re-think existing functionality, create new features and help to establish the Gallery’s social media presence. Read more

Toronto International Film Festival

Web design and development, 2007 I was only with TIFF for one year, but what a year! It was a tremendously creative environment and there wasn’t an aspect of the endeavor the web team didn’t touch. In addition to group collaboration on the big annual festival, each designer/developer had pet projects. Read more

Pleasure Dome Film & Video

Web design and development, 2006—present Pleasure Dome is a storied film and video exhibition collective in Toronto. Going to their screenings as a student was a foundational experience, and I was honored when they brought me on as their webmaster. My involvement began in 2006, when we created a new, WordPress-based website capable of housing 20+ years of archives (details here). Read more

Midi Onodera

Web design and development, 2006—present I’m involved in a long-standing collaboration with artist Midi Onodera, helping to realize Internet-video projects via her website, podcasts and in-gallery exhibitions. Pictured here is a touch screen interface, part of an exhibition at Concordia University, Montreal, that enabled access to Onodera’s 2009 project, Movie of the Week. Read more