AI Self-Portrait

2024
Professor Simsimon - an AI self portrait.


Orthogonal 2024

Updates to the project.


ISEA 2020 Presentation: Sensiqwerty

'Sensiqwerty' (collaboration with Alex Lough) is an experiment in sensorimotorically enhanced computer interface design. The project is premised on decades of building embodied interfaces that attend to sensorimotor subtleties of normal human embodied performance, often excluded from conventional interfaces.


Covid Video Poems

These are poems written during covid lockdown. 2020 - 2021.


Greensteam

Sustainable steam power for the 21st century. 2018-2020.
Inspired by sustainability, environmental and climate justice activism, Greensteam project seeks (1) to provide sustainable sources of power (mechanical and electrical) while (2) addressing previously unsolvable problems of environmental waste management.


Orthogonal 2017-2020

Explorations of the unique qualities of traditional Micronesian ocean voyaging sailcraft (generically, Proa).


Phatus

Mechanic-pneumatic voice synthesis. 2010.
Phatus is an extended interdisciplinary project to build physically instantiated, physiologically inspired voice machines.


Walleye

2006-2009, unfinished.
Walleye is an interactive light installation which engages users in temporal gestural and bodily play.


Spectre

2006
3D machine vision real time facial modeling installation.


Fugitive

2001-2004


Body Electric

2003
3D machine vision interactive installation with dual projections 8 channel spatialised sound. (with Malcolm MacIver).


Bedlam

2001-2003
Telepresence machine vision robotic interactive. (with Bill Vorn)


Telepanoscope/Vivitars

2004-2005
Live generation of 3D avatars via 3D machine vision.


Traces

1997-1999
Augmentation of CAVE VR with custom 3D machine vision. Prix Ars Electronica99 Honorable Mention.


Sympathetic Sentience II

1996
Artificial life installation.


Sympathetic Sentience

1995-1996
Artificial life installation.


Petit Mal

1993-1995
Autonomous robotic artwork.


Big Wheels

1992-1993
A requiem for the industrial revolution.


Big Father

1992
Electronic surveillance installation.


Ceci Nest Pas Un Oiseau

1988-1989
Custom animation projection installation.


Pride of Our Young Nation

1991
Heat Seeking anti-personnel sculpture.


Lo Yo Yo

1990-1991
Autonomous robotic artwork.


Chronic Rebus Generator

1987
Contradictory aphorism machine.


Great Arcs

1987
Great Arcs is an electromechanical projection installation involving two projection machines.


Machine Sisyphus

1986
Steel, electromechanics.
The locomotive climbs the incline, the incline tilts due to the locomotive's weight.


Stupid Robot

1985
Designed to annoy, reminiscent of a legless beggar, Stupid Robot shakes a can of metal parts noisily when approached. 1985.