I’ve had a long interest in projects that combine aesthetics and technology into interesting physical sites and installations. Inspired by projects like Munehiko Sato’s ‘ Constellation of Departure ‘ and the works of Jim Campbell , I describe below ideas for two interactive installations designed to be shown at the Northern Spark nuit blanch festival. Spectrum: The Shape of Sound Spectrum will be a [...]

This first image is intended to evoke a sense of the sublime and a pondering mood in the viewer. Structures in the distance enveloped in mist are intended to motivate the player’s movement and orientation.

The atlas will be in the form of a data overlay in the user’s pov. This can be accessed by pressing a key combination or locatively accessed near world landmarks. Table of Contents: 1. Basic premise and relation to the McLuhan quote: “One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which [...]

Sketched maps for the undersea world of Junction Point. Links for full resolution: External Boundaries Internal Boundaries Possibility Space Options: Rotation of world objects to unlock messages and quotes. Approaching the two “hall of mirror” landmarks from different angles to see reflections reveal different aspects of the world. Shining different color lights on world objects: structures such as walls, [...]

Junction Point is a bustling metropolis located in the center of a vast funnel linking the sky world with an underwater world. It is at the intersection of commerce and trade between these two realms. A wave of mist engulfs the city periodically, allowing the objects there to have the potential to reveal alternate identities and histories. [...]

The world of this image is that of a former settlement known as Kowloon Walled City in Kowloon, Hong Kong. If art is the distillation of life, then Kowloon Walled City is the distillation of the extremes of urbanity. The walled city existed as a defined section of extremely high density housing structures, up to [...]

E.M. Forster’s science fiction short story, “The Machine Stops” is a tale about technological dependence and dehumanization and a response to a perceived techno optimism of H.G. Wells. While its ideas have since pollinated many works of fiction, it nevertheless paints a vivid world. Written in 1909, it articulates a society in which people exists [...]