Interactive

Interactive Work

I have built my interactive career on creating unique experiences that incorporate storytelling, game design and sound interactive principles. The best projects balance structure and delight to guide users to discover what lies ahead. Below, you'll find a few recent highlights and an old favorite of mine.

The Power of Mobile Data

What if we could use anonymized mobile data to be more affective in a crisis or catch disease outbreaks before they get out of hand? This project combined research and strategy from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to protoype software solutions in the form of data dashboards to demonstrate the kinds of insights and actions possible using mobile data in the developing world.

My role: Creative Director

Early Detection

Efficient Response

Resource Allocation

Patient Behavior

Empathy Agent

What if you could use crucial customer experience data to help new employees really understand how their role impacts the company? This interactive customer journey project used data from nearly 100 hours of interviews to detail the reactions and emotions of users at every touchpoint with the company's product. The project was built using HTML, CSS, javascript and a sprinkle of D3.

My Role: Creative Director

Introduction Screen

Step 1 with Navigation

Section Detail

Clarifying Data

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Back before Instagram and the deluge of images supplied by social media, I was asked by the Pace/MacGill gallery and the School of Visual Arts to design a unique exhibition that highlighted the amateur photo community of Flickr and bring it into the fine art gallery world in New York City. The piece focused on self-portraits so it not only celebrated the images that were being created by this community but also featured the artists themselves. The exhibit was up for 2 months at the Pace/MacGill gallery with interactive stations as well as online access where users could browse, favorite and curate a more refined selection of images. The software sorted over 40,000 images when the exhibit began and grew to nearly 200,000 by the end. Years later the online version handled more that 1.5 million self-portraits until Flickr changed their API.

My role: Creative Director, Designer

Main Entry Screen

Related Tag Menu

Detail View

Gallery Installation

Wer bin ich (Who am I)

It all started with a voicemail from the artist Laurie Anderson that I had to listen to 3 times to make sure I wasn't being punked and it ended a year and a half later in Yverdon, Switzerland with thousands of people streaming through this interactive installation, 10 hours a day for 6 months. From the very first meeting I knew it could be done. Build a digital photo system that could capture participants and integrate them into Laurie's video 15 meters high on the ceiling. I wasn't sure how to do it, but I knew it could be done.

In the end, I devised a system using 6 Nikon digital cameras mounted in the ceiling and shooting through holes in the screen to photograph the public lying in green screen colored beds. The cameras were triggered by midi that was synced to the video playback through the lighting system so we would have enough light to capture facial details in the darkened space. Once the images were taken, they were processed by our custom calibrated software to mask out the green beds and generate color and black and white versions of the subjects. These images were stored in a folder until they were needed for animated sequences during the piece. The public typically discovered their images splashed across the ceiling within minutes of them laying down.

To ease maintenance during the 6 month run, the system could be updated and recalibrated remotely from New York at a moments notice.

Projects like this come along once in a lifetime. I feel very lucky.

My role: Creative Director, Animator, Programmer, Designer

Projector Alignment

Early Test and Planning

Team Meeting with Laurie

How it Works

Early Projection Tests

Bed Install

First Queue

Open to the Public