NETLab Hub
NETLab Connect (New Ecology of Things Lab Connection) is a project to create free, open-source software and hardware tools for student and professional designers who want to create interactive objects and spaces. The project strives to open up new possibilities for design work that previously required relatively deep technical knowledge or close collaboration with engineers.
Autonomous Light Air Vessels
I designed and programmed the software brains of these robots, working closely with the artist, Jed Berk, to refine their behavior and design the overall performance. We designed the flock to interact with the audience and with each other in such a way as to transform a large architectural space with the minimum of material, energy, and intelligence. Each ALAV responded to proximity to people, to each other, and to its physical position with respect to the overall space. Visitors could call the ALAVs using a mobile phone. The ALAV that chose to field the call posed a set of questions to the caller, whose answers determined its subsequent behavior. [More...]
Coring Traffic
This project was part of a larger exploration in data visualization. Building on a documentary film made by of the project team members, the project borrowed the metaphor of ice core sampling to represent the spatial expansion and compression that we perceive while driving on the freeway that result from the ebbs and flows of traffic. It made use of publicly available data feeds based on freeway traffic speed sampling on the 405 freeway between south L.A. and the San Fernando Valley. [More...]
The Gambit
I designed the software for this portable, interactive, site-specific animation sited in the lobby of John Portman’s Westin-Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. [More...]
The History of Stereo
The History of Stereo is a computer game and interactive structuralist film based on media-historian Friederich Kittler’s history of stereophonic sound. [More...]