He is coordinator of the Art Education program, and earned his PhD in Art Education from the Pennsylvania State University in 2004. He has published widely on the topics of digital visual culture, digital aesthetics, and the relationship between surveillance, works of art, and the gaze. He has presented his research at both national and international conferences. He is also a working artist, having earned his MFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 2000. His work explores similar territory as his research, deriving sculptural forms and large-scale drawings from the intersections of complex self-organizing biological systems, networked digital technologies, and cartoons.