We are Energy was a brief project I did almost a year ago. It was a lead up to my Aura Installation, focusing on typography and illustrating meaning through human interaction. As the user moves through the space there body is illuminated with infrared light and tracked, the motion of the assets is an attraction to their activity, the particles swarm to users body.
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I was finally able to get some documentation of my What Matters Most installation edited. I even got it posted on my portfolio site here. To describe the project, I’ll quote myself:
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Make: Day was on Saturday. What a crazy event. The event ran from 10-3 and there were several thousand people pouring through the doors. There was a wide range of audience and the fellow presenters/makers were very inspiring and showing a lot of interest in everyone’s work. There was a sense of community that was real nice.
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I had been waiting for some content to show up from our PhizzPop Minneapolis presentation a couple weeks ago. I do not have any personal documentation of the event, so I’m glad to see some has appeared on YouTube. Thanks to SocialWendy, for letting me see what everyone else saw, while we were on stage. The presentation starts off with a description of our project and demonstrates the web application. The surface table is about 5 minutes in. Barrett Haroldson is the main presenter, I am demonstrating the applications and our partner Andrew Charon helps me demonstrate the Surface table’s multi-user experience. A video overview of the event can be found here.

My latest project is currently installed at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Its been a crazy amount of work this past week; including 21 hours straight from yesterday / today and another 10 later in the day today. The project is installed but I will continuing to make improvements for the following week, the project is still very much in progress.

What Matters Most is a multi-touch application exploring the current activity on digg.com. Referencing the current popular stories it displays the popularity of each top-level topics, its sub-topics and the stories within, visualizing the information that people on the internet are paying the most attention to.

In May of 2007 I participated in an experiment titled Vormator: The Elements of Design. The brief was to build an artwork using only the 8 vector shapes that they provide you with. My concept was to use these eight shapes in the development of my Generative Compositional Engine, an application that algorithmically creates artwork based on compositional rules.

After 18 months the book, featuring the work of 80 artists, is now officially released. You can view sample pages and order online at vormator.com.

“Aura” is an installation visualizing human presence as moving energy. Projected onto the wall are thousands of ‘particles’ that are attracted to your presence, they turn from a cool blue to a warm red and increase in movement depending on the activity in their area. The installation’s sound component was a loop of an indefinable rumble from a sub-woofer, the volume of the rumble was determined by the overall amount of activity occurring in the installation at the moment.
The installation, created back in May, detects a person’s presence using an infrared camera and a simple subtractive-background method of motion detection. The installation used custom software written using Processing libraries.
Unfortunately I have been unable to track down my original video documentation of the project so-far, until I get that footage all I have are a few photos, below are a couple.

YearbookYourself.com is a flash application that allows you to upload a photo of yourself and view how you could’ve looked throughout the past 6 decades of fashion.

I handled the development of this project along with Andrew Charon, Jason Striegel and Julie Kaloides, as part of my work at Colle + McVoy, in Minneapolis. The application has turned out to be a viral success, people all over facebook are using it for avatar’s, people are making YouTube videos of their experience and even a co-founder of Twitter was using it as his avatar for a while. My understanding is that since our launch on August 8th, we have received around 6,000,000 sessions.

http://dearpresident.haptic-data.com

I have created a small project on the topic of the current U.S. presidential election, the project was aimed at delivering messages of people’s concerns to the next President. The application queries Digg for popular stories related to the election and then sequences through user comments related to the stories.

This project was done primarily to familarize myself with the Digg API for an upcoming project for an installation I will be completing in December.