AI Research, Evaluation, &
Computational Mixed Media (2013–Present)

Research

BRIE (2025–2026)

Small-data LoRA adaptation across four open-weight models (0.5B–7B) on a 1,213-example corpus of continental philosophy and contemplative prose, evaluated blind across two generations of frontier judges.

A wheel of Brie cheese on a white plate with a single wedge cut out, resting on a dark wooden table beside a window.

A public register of verified instances of harm involving AI chatbots, categorized by relational pathway and admitted only on court filings, government acknowledgment, or multi-source journalism.

Tools & Infrastructure

FLÂNEUR (2026)

An agentic build pipeline that turns a short brand brief into a verified Vite and TypeScript site, pairing seed-time fal.ai asset generation with automated Playwright checks and human visual review.

Hero views of the twelve brief-built sites in a four-by-three grid, each with its own layout and typeface, from a serif registry page to a dark trading terminal to a bold storefront.

Forensic recovery and batch relinking of a fifteen-year Ableton Live archive across six drives — resolving 2.03 million sample references across both .als XML schemas into self-contained, byte-verified projects.

PHILM (2025–2026)

A CLI, SQLite/FTS5 archive, and FastAPI reader that pairs multimodal vision models with strict Pydantic schemas to produce structured video readings across twenty-eight critical-theory and editorial lenses.

Eight frames from one clip, a sunrise through an airplane window, each with the affect reading philm returned for that timecode: intensity out of ten, vector, atmosphere.

ROT (2026)

A single-file browser utility that drives an image repeatedly through the native JPEG codec — with optional per-pixel noise, color shift, and sharpening convolution between passes — until generational loss becomes the medium.

Traces 893 phone videos of works in progress back to the Ableton Live sessions that made them by correlating capture metadata, detected BPM, and in-frame title bars against 166,000 project timestamps across six drives.

Six saved frames from the album, several with an Ableton title bar in shot.
Audio & DSP

V0A (2026)

A clean-room C++20 DSP library, offline renderer, and macOS JUCE plugin (AU/VST3) reconstructing the period-synchronous pitch-correction behavior of Antares Auto-Tune EFX 3 from public patents and forensic research.

Generative & Visual

A cataloguing pipeline and algorithmic editing engine over 56 hours of personal footage (2015–2026), indexing clips by affect intensity and vector over time to cut film against a composed curve or a music track's loudness envelope.

Six frames from six different cuts made by the engine.

A zero-dependency C++20 generator (CLI and native AppKit GUI) that composes procedural graphic scores as vector geometry and degrades them through a fixed raster and photocopy pipeline into stark black-and-white bitmaps.

A ruined score from the pipeline: three drifting five-line systems with scattered noteheads and stems, and one diagonal collision line cutting down through all three.

RETRO_WEB (2025)

Eleven self-contained 1998–99 personal homepages in period-accurate static HTML — table layouts, guestbooks, webrings, and hardcoded hit counters — paired with a statement on constructed online identity.

A modular six-stage dataset pipeline — Commons license and EXIF harvesting, SigLIP 2 aesthetic ranking, interactive HTML curation, local VLM captioning, and packaging — built to produce the open-source y2k-digicam dataset and style LoRA.

Applied Products

NEWROOM (2025–2026)open ↗

A full-stack interior redesign web application that re-renders room photographs in a chosen aesthetic while preserving camera geometry and structure, built with Gemini image models, Supabase, and Stripe Checkout.

A constraint-based writing tool (web and macOS Tauri) that generates prose across five theoretical registers, ranks every token by semantic importance once, and masks load-bearing words client-side via a live density slider.

Generates sequenced reading lists through twentieth-century continental philosophy cited to specific chapters, page ranges, and aphorisms via structured output, with per-reading scholarly follow-ups grounded in OpenAlex over MCP.

About
  • ProgrammingPython, TypeScript, JavaScript. Fine-tuning (SFT, PEFT), RLHF, DPO, RM. Dataset curation, evaluation framework design. Prompt engineering, model behavior analysis. React, Vite, API integration (Gemini, Replicate, OpenAI, Claude). HuggingFace, LM Studio, Cursor, ComfyUI.
  • ProductionAbleton Live (15+ years). Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro). End-to-end production from concept to distribution.
  • ResearchContinental philosophy, critical theory. White paper development, strategic documentation. Epistemological frameworks, ontological analysis, ethical reasoning.
Press
Press index (22)
  • 2017 THUMP (Vice) — Karman — When The Sun Fell (Spring '17 Mix)
  • 2016 Noisey (Vice) — Karman's "Yew" — premiere (Heaven Complex EP)
  • 2016 Nylon — "No Us" — video premiere
  • 2016 Dummy — Dummy Presents — Heaven Complex release show, Ace Hotel DTLA
  • 2016 Daily Beat — Karman — "No Us"
  • 2016 PLAYY. Magazine — Interview — Get to know Karman
  • 2016 Impose — Karman — Heaven Complex, review [archive]
  • 2015 HuffPost — Broad City Season 2 — 10 Songs You Need To Know
  • 2015 VFILES — Ascend Forever — VFILES Mix #8 [archive]
  • 2014 Complex — Cubby — Steady Now (Karman Remix) ft. Tasha The Amazon
  • 2014 The Fader — Cubby — Steady Now (Karman Remix), premiere
  • 2014 Interview Magazine — SoundClouds of the Underground — NYFW edition
  • 2014 The Fader — VFILES Made Fashion × Def Jam DJ Championship — finalists
  • 2014 Earmilk — Karman breathes new life into Ellie Goulding's "Burn"
  • 2014 Truants — Recommended: Karman — 2005 Forever EP
  • 2014 Impose — LFTF Mix #44 [archive]
  • 2014 Live For The Funk — LFTF Mix [archive]
  • 2014 Noisey (Vice) — Karman's dreamy remix of Ellie Goulding's "Burn" [archive]
  • 2014 Acclaim — ICU: Karman [archive]
  • 2014 Stock71 — Karman, feature [archive]
  • 2014 Discobelle — Screens [no surviving link]
  • 2013 YoursTruly — Karman — 2005 Forever [no surviving link]

Earlier work under the alias karman (2013–2017).

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