He is an American video artist and director. He began designing videos in New York for the multimedia performance group The Wooster Group and developed a long-term collaboration with the musician Laurie Anderson, for whose performance pieces Stories from the Nerve Bible and Songs and Stories from Moby Dick co-designed videos. In 1999 he created the video for the audiovisual concert The Commissar Vanishes by Michael Nyman. In 1999 he moved to Berlin, from where he is still active in the theater, dance and opera scenes today. He made his directorial debut in 2019 at the Zurich Opera House with the premiere of Michael Pelzel's Last Call.

His projects include collaborations, among others, with Meg Stuart, Stefan Pucher, Sebastian Baumgarten, Falk Richter, Jossi Wieler and Pierre Audi. Lydia Steier's production of Stockhausen's Thursday from Light, for which he was responsible for the video design, was named "Opera of the Year" by Opernwelt magazine in 2016. In 2023 he worked with David Marton on Der Freischütz as a film opera at the Theater an der Wien. In 2009 he received the German stage award “Opus” and, together with the set designer Barbara Ehnes, the German theater award DER FAUST in 2012. He is a co-founder of the Berlin performance group doublelucky productions and has been a visiting professor for interdisciplinary artistic practice and theory at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2023.