Installation Design
This is design that takes up space — physical, emotional, and sometimes a whole Times Square billboard.
The work in this section lives at the intersection of art, technology, and the people unlucky (or lucky) enough to walk into the room. A projection-mapped sculpture built from social media video to simulate the inside of a mythological titan's mind. A music-reactive LED ceiling installed for a Cambridge music festival. A stage design for Shpongle. An experiential marketing takeover of Times Square. A dry-erase wall inviting strangers to share their fears and acts of bravery. Prince outfits.
What ties it all together isn't a medium or a client type — it's an interest in what happens when design becomes something you experience rather than something you use. A lot of this work is participatory by design: it needs people to complete it. The Empathic Post-Its only work if someone is brave enough to write something down. The Blade Bat Wall literally responds to your body. Rick Rubin Is a Gateway Drug asks you to trace musical lineage and realize you've been listening to the same guy your whole life without knowing it.
This section is also the most honest expression of where the name "Open Source Empathy" comes from — the idea that sharing something real, even in public, even with strangers, is a quietly radical act.
The Prometheus Clock
A social media video-driven projection-mapped sculpture that aimed to give folks the feeling of what it was like to be inside Prometheus’s head.
Middlesex Light Sculpture
An LED and Vellum sculpture which different animations and patterns for the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge, MA.
Music-reactive LED Ceiling
Installed at the Middle East Downstairs for the Together music festival in Cambridge, MA.
Times Square Takeover
Experiential Marketing campaign for Palace Resorts that leverages the big screens in NYC.
Shpongletron 3.0
Stage design for the artist Shpongle, with projection mapping and LEDs.
Rick Rubin is a Gateway Drug
My gallery collaboration with Zach Kaiser to make the gallery attendees aware of Rick’s influence on music via participation.
Empathic Post-its
An attempt to creative empathy amongst a community by asking it’s members to share their vulnerabilities.
Fear/Bravery Wall
Part of my OSE experiments, I installed these dry erase walls, in collaboration with building facilities management, to gather stories of fear and bravery.
Blade Bat Wall
A Microsoft Kinect / OpenFrameworks-driven animated projection wall that responds to you.