Born in Santa Barbara, California, founded FormLAB, a long-term collaborative art and research platform that turns the studio inside-out, allowing the parameters of art-making to rebound with identities, languages, technologies, and social spaces. He completed his BA Fine Art (Hons) at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London where he specialized in collaborative art and theory. He was awarded a Monbukagakusho (Monbusho) Fellowship to Japan, completing his Masters in Fine Art at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the Faculty of Art, Environment and Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK in 2012 and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship School of Communications and Arts (ECA), University of São Paulo, Brazil in 2017.