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I’m a design engineer with product leadership experience, specializing in work related to culture, publishing, and emerging technologies.
I was the first design engineer at Cargo Collective, a platform for self-publishing creative work, and most recently, I was the co-founder and Head of Product at Mirror, a long-form writing platform exploring new ways of funding and sustaining creative practices.
My work generally focuses on interaction, interface, perception, and environment. This emerges through the creation of tools for connection and publishing.
Work Experience
Ongoing studio practice for commissioned works, including projects for 12:01, a24, Are.na, Bloomberg Business Week, Dublab, Es Devlin, Google Arts & Culture, Hassan Rahim, LOT2046, Mountain Hardware, Nicholas Alan Cope, Osk Studio, Outpost, Redbull Music Academy, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Warp Records, and more.
Contributed design engineering to a series of internal experiments, stood up a fresh project management structure, assisted transitioning the design culture [through an acquisition], and more.
Co-founder of long-form web3 publishing tool. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16) and Union Square Ventures (USV), among others.
First hire at site building tool formerly known as Cargo Collective.
Projects
Initiated a series of relaxed afternoons about distributed networks and culture. Instances popped up at Folder Studio and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LA), School for Poetic Computation (NYC), and Trust (Berlin). Big shoutout to the collaborators it wouldn’t have been possible without, specifically Louis and Callil.
Side Projects
Contributed engineering and design to a number of projects, including Red Bull Music Academy, Morphosis Architects, 2Pac, Machine Project, Dublab, East of Borneo, Deitch Projects, and more.
Features
A meandering conversation on rendering, data ownership, furniture objects, and more for the “An Image for the Present” edition of ”Paprika!“
Written by Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG and Nicola Twilley, in conversation with Folkert Gorter in the studio of Cargo Collective.
Speaking
Using public parks as an analogue for critiquing contemporary network infrastructure and publishing tools.
Spoke about cultivating a sense of time and tempo in publishing tools, centered on experiments built on the Decentralized Archive Transport protocol at the Decentralized Web Summit.
Gave a talk and organized a workshop on how artists may utilize peer-to-peer publishing tools as an extension of digital archival practice.
An evening centered on questions of publishing practices and data ownership.
Writing
Contributed as one of several artists, writers, filmmakers, designers, and performers to share a list of the most noteworthy ideas, events, and objects encountered in 2019.
Scene report on the goings-on at the Internet Archive’s Decentralized Web Summit.