Immersive Media Designer
Lots of projects happening all the time. Redoing my bathroom, making old televisions work with modern content, projection mapping windows, cinema 4d fun creating 3d cities and wood treatments. Lots of discoveries.
Múltiple old televisions for a DJ booth running looping content on usb players. RCA to RF modulators.
During the Spring of 2018, I focused all of my studies for MFA into a single applied project that would be explore a culmination of study in liveness, narrative design, audience interaction, and meta theatre. Inspired from the book ‘Set This House In Order’ by Matt Ruff, I created this experience over 4 months from reading the book, to breaking down key moments, to developing and designing interactive elements and the scenic, lighting, and video environment.
Using a single interactive table in the center, audience members experience the world with surrounding projections, miniature projections in a dollhouse, interactive objects in the room, and even video monitor arrays that feature recorded ghosts. All of these items played a part in solving progressive puzzles that would reward the audience with advancements in the narrative. One of the main guiding game design principles I applied was sourced from the 2010 indiecade lecture by Jonathan Blow on the concept of "Epiphany"; or the "Aha" moment when discovering the solution to a problem.
Below are photos of process, and implementation. Featured are the construction of the dollhouse, raspberry pi work in streaming video over network, the interactive table, and a variation of final scenes from the design.
This was done prior to knowledge of NDI network video, and was made utilizing beta versions of network video signals.
Recently been rewatching the Marvel Cinematic Universe in preparation for the upcoming Black Panther, and ultimately Infinity War. So in love with the most recent one I watched: Captain America The Winter Solider. Fantastic film, but even more great was the fantastic end title sequence. Seen here
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/captain-america-the-winter-soldier/
Simple and powerful use of color. The Cap running through a vertigo shape of the American Flag. The shadow of the stars appearing against the winter soldier.
I might amend this one later, but I needed this to be noted as it is a very nice color balance. Not too white, not to stark in either direction. Very effective. Would make posters out of all of this!
https://www.instagram.com/iamsteelberg/
So inspired by this creative artist. Check out all the amazing work they do in making vhs version of modern movies. One of the worst things was the loss of the nationwide video rental store. I think we have great new technology and options with streaming, but the video store was a destination that forced you to get up and get out. I miss the box art, I miss browsing, I miss arguing with friends and loved ones about what movie to get. I loved seeing the employee suggestions, some awful some awesome. There was something super unique and memorable about that experience, and I guess for the children of the late 80's it is the how the entertainment industry evolved for us.
Considering that change, remember having to wait in lines to get good seats for a movie? That was awful. But grass is always greener, and wtf is the point of a midnight movie now when I have reserved seats?
But again, seriously. Look at this stranger things VHS box. I WANT IT.
Kyle Lambert is the original artist of this fantastic poster. Check him out!
Currently configuring my new switch for the Conference of The Birds show that is going up in about 4 weeks. This really brings me back to how fun it is to navigate the cisco switches, so many options I have yet to even explore about what I can do. For my purposes I am simply using a single VLAN, but in the future, there may be chances to really bust out a huge system. I'm spending the day configuring a single rasberry pi to have a static IP address and some auto start-up and automatic check if things are working alright. Once that is set I will spread those across 20 more rasberry pi, and give them each their own special IP. That is then going to be the test to run 20 of them all seeking an rtsp feed from TouchDesigner. Then video wall magic? Hopefully. Documentation of the process will continue here. Ideally with some videos!
One of the most exciting and interesting courses I took at ASU was focused on Game Engine Design. Incredibly challenging but rewarding, we covered concepts in 3D math, C# programming with Visual Studio, and game design challenges. This is the result of a semester of work in developing tools and elements to create a game engine to design a game world inside.
Currently installing the final version of this weird and interesting creepy box for my media installation course. It is a box with several holes of varying sizes that have different looping videos playing back. All of the videos relate to looking into something. There is an eye doctor test, sniper rifle, telescope into space, a keyhole. There are also lots of eyes that are looking as well. In our original concept this box was an exploration of how to get users to look at something in unique ways, force them to look at different angles, or try to induce vertigo. In this final version, we decided to unify our concept and make it a bit more creepy by designing around a concept that this box is the essence of a person hunting people for eyes.
To achieve this there is a pico projector bouncing off of a mirror on to several of the hole, and a Dell monitor as well. Additionally there is another monitor for a special viewing area where it shows a live feed of the person looking into the box at that angle, and then creepy individuals that have been prerecorded appear to be walking up behind them. This is driven with Max and Isadora on 2 separate computers. There is also an audio loop playing inside of modulated breathing sounds. FUN! Ha.
As we finalize this over the next week I will be really excited to see what people are thinking about all of this. One individual has described at as "the project where you die". I'd say that is a sign of some success in gaining a narrative from this piece. I am also proud that this installation is the only one continuously operating from the class. Many of the other projects are just not operating, or have failed max patches.
I'm really hoping to push this concept later on in my work with conference next spring!
Box of holes that show looping videos of different ways a person might look through. Concept is a person obsessed with eyes has their essence captured within all the moments of this box.
For a course I am taking in my graduate program, I've begun exploring liveness and how to detect traces of humanity with different forms of mediation.
