I started in graphic design: Humber, then OCAD, studying typography, colour theory and interface design. From 1999 to 2006 I was at Immersion Studios in Toronto, designing for group interactive cinemas and exhibits. Vital Space, a ride through nanotechnology inside the human body, ran at the Smithsonian and the Melbourne Museum. An interactive nuclear debate ran at the Sellafield Visitor Centre for the Science Museum, London. Some of my motion graphics were thirty feet wide. We built in Toronto, then I travelled to install, from Paris to the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2005 in Japan.

At the Banff New Media Institute I designed Tracklines, locative stories on phones for Banff National Park with Parks Canada. I ran the interactive media department and DJ'd as Pepper Jones on the Centre's Radio90. In 2008 I used that station to play live synth scores to one hiker at a time on the Hoodoos trail, about eight performances, steering the music by their GPS whenever the mountains let the signal through. Then came a residency in Gros Morne, a return to drawing by hand, and a studio in Montreal.

Teaching started at Banff, where running the interactive media department meant mentoring visiting artists and collectives through their digital works. From 2014 to 2022 I was senior instructor and program lead for Digital Design at Vancouver Film School. I wrote the curriculum for Advanced Interaction Design, Immersive Installation and VR/AR, taught user-centred research, interaction design and immersive design, and directed graduate projects. Eight years of students asking "why" made me better at answering it.

Along the way: Rockheim, Norway's national museum of pop and rock. Now I build characters people talk to. WWII veterans speak in the voices they had during the war, and Carlo Schmid answers visitors in Mannheim. The tools changed. The question didn't: how two people can hold a conversation through a machine.