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...]
Fieldworks: Art-Geography
I was a co-organizer of this symposium, which brought together practitioners from art, architecture, and geography to examine how emerging relations between geographical science and artistic production are transforming the meaning of information gathered in the “field”. The original symposium web site is here.
CLUI Land Use Database
I was a database consultant for the Center of Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, and implemented the first version of the CLUI Land Use Database.