Select Technical Projects

  • LED Web Controller: Demo web app for controlled networked LEDs. Rest API and webpage hosted in AWS.
  • Neuroflowers: brainwave and heart-rate controlled robotic flower art installation installed on San Francisco's Market Street
  • Space Jellyfish: iOS / bluetooth-controlled fiberoptic LED chandelier
  • Space Rocks: fiber glass benches/seat sculptures lit from within by interactive LEDs
  • Interactive LED Belt: sound- and motion-reactive LED belt
  • Blossom: robotic LED flowers that are controlled by user proximity
    • Moods-over-IP Robotic Flower: modified the Blossom robot flower behavior to visualize business operations data via ethernet server
  • Dr. Brainlove Lighting:  Year 1: designed and led the creation of hundreds of 3D printed LED modules that mate with fiber optic cables; Year 2: designed full-bar lighting covers. 

Collaborations

  • Fiber Optic Sea Warrior Costume: collaboration with artist/designer Mikaela Holmes; created flexible, 3D printed LED-fiber optic mating components and responsible for all electronics

Teaching

Teaching focus: combing technology, digital fabrication tools and rapid prototyping techniques to combine creativity with engineering and accelerate learning; topics include LED programming, robotic motion, 2D/3D design for fabrication, sensors and input, internet of things/connected devices, the rapid prototyping process, interactive art

Experience

Art Grants & Awards

  • 2016 Burning Man Art Department, Black Rock City, NV (as Sustainable Magic)
  • 2016 False Profit Presents Priceless, Belden, CA
  • 2016 Private Event, Grant & Installation, San Francisco, CA
  • 2016 Maker Faire Editor Choice Award: Blue Ribbon​ (as Sustainable Magic)
  • ​2015-2016 CODAME Featured Artist (as Sustainable Magic)
  • 2015 Market Street Prototyping Festival, San Francisco, CA
  • 2015 Burning Man Art Department, Black Rock City, NV (as Sustainable Magic)
  • 2015 Burning Man Global Art Grant Program, San Francisco, CA (as Sustainable Magic)
  • 2015 False Profit Presents Priceless, Belden, CA
  • 2014 Burning Man Art Department, Black Rock City, NV (as Sustainable Magic)
  • 2014 YOUtopia Festival, Grant & Installation, San Diego, CA
  • 2014 False Profit Presents Priceless, Belden, CA
  • 2013 YOUtopia Festival, Grant & Installation, San Diego, CA 
  • 2013 False Profit Presents Priceless, Belden, CA (as Sustainable Magic)
  • 2013 The Phage Burning Man Art Installation, Black Rock City, NV (as Sustainable Magic)

Select Installations & Exhibitions