INTERACTION DESIGN

Coloring Medieval Sculptures at the Nasher Museum of Art 

This project was designed and implemented for the interactive art exhibit at the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, NC.  I was responsible for the design and development of the User Interface that allowed museum goers to "color" medieval statues by casting user specified color onto the user selected region of the statue via projection mapping. In addition to coloring, the tablet interface also informed the user about the medieval history of the pigment that corresponded to the selected color.

The animated GIF illustrates the user workflow:

Images below depict the coloring effect achieved by the use of projection mapping on sculptures:

Digital Shadow Puppet Control via Mobile Device

Between 2009 and 2013, I was a member of the Minneapolis based artist collective Minneapolis Art on Wheels (http://maw.c-uir.org/about/). One of the projects I worked on was a mixed-media puppetry trilogy called Shadows with No Capital. I worked on this project with fellow MAW member Andrea Steudel and puppeteers Kyle Loven and Bart Buch. The iPod interface that I designed and built for this project allowed the puppeteers to control large scale projected puppets as they appeared on buildings. Below is an animated GIF sketch that shows interface functionality as well as a short video that provides a demo of the interaction.