In 2012 I created my first interactive touch wall: Touch #1. The work built on my experience creating the visuals for Still Life and was largely inspired by seeing autistic children experiencing pure joy while interacting in an immersive environment.
Touch #1 received a great response and was later installed at Exploration Place and at Living Arts Gallery in Tulsa. Touch #1 was also the inspiration for my next touch wall, Touch #2.
In May 2022 I founded TechArtICT, collective which creates and installs interactive and immersive artwork. TechArtICT features a rotating group of artists and engineers who collaborate, imagine then build innovative work at the intersection of engineering and art. TechArtICT has created several installations regionally, including Cybergarden at Towne West Mall, Search for Solace at the…
As part of the Ballet Wichita’s Innovations performance April 2024 I teamed up with Wichita State University’s Shocker Studios to track a dancer live, reinterpreting their motions on a stage-sized display behind them. Wichita State University’s Fairmount String Trio accompanied the dance, performing Dohnányi’s Serenade. To track the dancer we used 3 Vive 3.0 trackers…
I worked with VÃctor Adán to explore how if we might train a machine to recognize chords changes in music. We tried multiple models to solve the problem, including Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, Hidden Markov Models, and a few variations of Maximum Likelihood systems.
As part of Wichita’s Open Studios project, TechArtICT opened Cybergarden at Towne West Mall. Cybergarden was “a magical space…a mysterious metaverse.” It featured work from various artists and creatives in the greater Wichita area. TechArtICT was founded by me and many of my works were featured in the installation, including Ghost in the Machine and…
Send and receive MIDI data in realtime from Python. Supports in32, OS X, Linux.
Auralis is a musical instrument constructed from a multitouch table and custom software ported from my earlier touch wall Touch #2. Merging sound, interactivity, and sequencing, Auralis is simultaneously engaging, meditative and soothing. I created the work for youth ages 8-14. A virtual world of suns, stars and planets interact with each other. Participants run…