A technologist and designer, Leif Percifield strives to create work that encourages exploration and examines the simple nature of things in order to express their unseen attributes. Before coming to New York to study at Parsons, he worked as a media developer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His background is in media arts and photography. Projects include PaintOut, an interactive digital graffiti platform, and dontflush.me, a project that provides realtime sensing and alert systems for water pollution. Currently he is affiliated with the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science where he contributes to the creation of tools for DIY citizen sciences.