Clean-slate HCI for art viewing of traditional media (painting, sculpture) with iPads, BTLE Beacons, projectors. The goal was to show an artists’ entire collection of work (50+ years, thousands of works) in a single space […]

Worked with a great group of 4 talented hackers over 3 months in our spare time to develop a really great little circuit that gets mounted in a snowboard. Overall point was to use natural motion […]

Installed ten multi-sensor installations (and counting) throughout 2014 & early 2015 using OpenPtrack, a scalable open-source tool for person detection and tracking using an arbitrary number of cameras and computers. Along the way, extensively debugging, documenting, […]

Worked with UCLA REMAP to make the LASHP Trails, which soft launched in April 2014. press from April soft-launch: gizmodo ABC news My role was back-end, mostly python & json w/ some php & mysql […]

Was pleased to help produce the LA launch of Skyline in Downtown LA Feb 13-22, 2014. 10 impossibly creative installations and musical performances in buildings rarely open to the public. for free! See LA Times article […]

Google Glass development as part of a research project at UCLA Software prototypes included continuous photography, sensor broadcast, video publishing and realtime distributed teleprompter. some press here, and here. some small bits of the code, here… Tools: Java, […]

As an experiment in augmentation of live aerial performance, I wrote engine to process and filter realtime data from the VN-100 industrial gyroscope, as well as various motion graphics templates for an intensive one-week workshop on-site […]

Sensors enabled the public to interact with the web-authored murals through body movements being dynamically mapped to concepts. My role was extracting documenting needs and use cases from the proposal & team, then implementing (developing) […]

I wrote the original controlling software for a responsive bus bench – a rare on-campus collaboration between architecture and engineering – it was designed by the UCLA Architecture department and facilitated by our UCLA REMAP […]

The sculpture, commissioned by Transmedia 2012, visualizes creative labor and its relationship to GDP across the world: it has five intertwined strands of fifty lighting elements, each of which represents a country. They are arranged by GDP per […]

Named Data Networking NDN is an NSF-funded research initiative that involves numerous institutions working together to build and test tomorrow’s Internet. At it’s core, NDN replaces the IP datagram, with two packets – Interest, and […]

Formal Usability Study and UX as a final project for a usability class, instructed by Nicole Pinkard. It was a real-world project: how to get urban youth access to the numerous extracurricular opportunities available ? […]

EAT is a Chicago-based nonprofit that focuses on food production and technology as a means to enhance education, personal health & environmental awareness. It does so by hosting hackathons, engaging other non profits, and facilitating […]

A mobile version of a calendar and print-project site. One of the first applications to use HP’s cloud print API. This, along with PhotoBooth, was my first commercial IOS application. Performed while working for Agency.com. […]

An installation for an annual week-long experimental art & architecture event in New Orleans. Visitors would experience their head projected on a bust, tony-style, but then the face would blend into some notable famous dude […]

4800×1200 video wall array with 3D generative organisms that respond to both crowd behavior as well as individual children. Multiuser. Scatter, Attract (feed), and follow are primary gestures. Built computer, content (3d fish, ocean), software […]

This was a functional prototype toward an idea of emotive inversion. You smile, it frowns. It oppresses. It reads your emotions, and is rather menacing. It was meant as a reaction to people’s default ‘wow’ […]

As BBSing grew into early web experimentation in 1994-7, I did my first commercial website (for a shoe store) in 1998. As freelance (2004-2008) and as staff (2008-2010) I worked at an Omnicom agency making […]

Two storefront windows along Canal street in New Orleans were transformed for one week into nightly ‘intelligent video mirrors’ for an Art & Architecture festival. One simply took pictures of anyone who faced their reflection […]

Participated in a team to realize a 60-monitor stereoscopic VR experience that allowed the user multimodal interaction with over the millions of new proteins from Craig Venter’s CAMERA project; which followed Darwin’s path, sampling and […]

Wrote custom serial driver for capacitive touchscreen z-depth, and added actionscript to existing application to interface. (2007). tools: Flash/Actionscript, Python, PHP, Java, Linux, XML project site.

Working with a group of artists in the UK, I helped prototype future work while installing and maintaining ongoing work. Python, C, serial, Pure Data, linux, embedded systems

My 2nd Children’s Hospital installation was artwork for a new Children’s wing in Hackensack, NJ. Primary components: digital screen behind waterfall seamless indoor video windows interactive kiosks, audio spotlights, media server worked for MVMT with Setpixel to […]

Designed and deployed 100 Mac Mini based touchscreen kiosks for showroom use across the US for a large manufacturer of faucets. Dual-purpose assets allowed a web version, as well. Kiosks not online, thus USB-key based […]

Developed a Point of Sale system in 2003 from scratch from user interviews & needs extraction per role. Went to extreme of building our own credit card gateway to avoid third party transaction costs. Credit […]

Actual coordinates of 300,000 Galaxies plotted and projected, responding in realtime to the proximity of the viewer(s). 15 feet of gallery floor space is thus isomorphically aligned to the 15 billion light years of our […]

Interactive bathroom mirrors w/ video effects and information graphic overlays. Made custom plugins to existing open source software. Also interactive bathroom foyer projection indicating occupancy, average wait times, as well as interactive artificial life for […]

Interactive environmental sound installation in a Children’s Hospital waiting room. 64 frames of a 3D render fused into a PHSCologram by Artn. Natural sounds react to movements in the room and change with the time […]

Play was Chicago’s longest running weekly experimental night (eventually second only to Jeff Parker‘s and John Herndon‘s Tuesday @ Rodan). (for seasonal, not weekly, hats off to Lampo!) Every single Monday night from 1997 to 2004, […]

from 1997 – 2002 I did realtime video with an SGI o2, often making sensors for input. culminated with winning a contest for Brothomstates Music Video for Warp Records / Creative Review contest (info here, […]