sun deity
“Sun Deity” is an interactive installation that puts the audience in charge of an algorithmically generated ‘sun’.
Using a gestural controller, the user can manipulate the movement and flow of the particle field which is projected onto a fluorescent acrylic sheet that hangs from the ceiling.
- year
- 2019
- type
- interactive installation
- materials
- fluorescent acrylic sheet, projector, handheld gestural controller
- software
- TouchDesigner
'Sun Deity’ is about the thrill of creation, the burning sense of power that occurs when an artist (or any variety of creative human) senses that they’ve accessed something interesting.
However, its two-dimensional form and artificial materiality serve to undercut these notions, suggesting instead that this particular set of human experiences can sometimes prove flatter and more vapid than we like to think.
ghost harp
'Ghost Harp' is an interactive audio-visual sculpture originally constructed in 2019.
ghost harp (2019), simulated · drag to turn it, click a panel to play it
Consisting of 72 LED backlights suspended from the ceiling with copper wire, creating a columnal form, the piece takes MIDI input and uses it to animate the LEDs, creating a mesmerizing, ghostlike visual interpretation of whatever music it is fed.
It has two modes. In the first, a Raspberry Pi running Sonic Pi plays a generative soundscape, and sends its notes as MIDI to an Arduino Leonardo, which lights the LEDs to match. In the second, MIDI comes straight from an instrument or a DAW, and the harp lights up with whatever's being played.
- year
- 2019
- type
- interactive audio-visual sculpture
- materials
- 72 LED backlights, copper wire
- hardware
- Raspberry Pi, Arduino Leonardo
- software
- Sonic Pi
- input
- its own generative soundscape, or live MIDI from an instrument or DAW
refracture
"Refracture" was an interactive installation that I designed in 2018.
It consisted of a mac mini running a Processing sketch that took a webcam input, chopped it up, and back-projected it onto a paper screen that hung from the ceiling.
refracture (2018), simulated
- year
- 2018
- type
- interactive installation
- materials
- paper screen, webcam, back projection, Mac mini
- software
- Processing
The same line-drawing sketch went on to make O. Wake's music video for “Riper Than Ripe”.
The algorithm driving it inspired me to create a series of several video filters.