among any collection of concepts, objects, media, tools, and people there always exist multiple potential spaces of the interactions, perceived meanings, and processes that occur and that are initiated

we discover or create new ways to stimulate thought, creativity, and learning through new configurations, possibilities, restrictions, and other explorations

the "materials" available to us often include physical, conceptual, psycological, technical, personal, or many others

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we can question and explore any responses we have when we react to the experience, in order to more fully understand ourselves and our aesthetics

we continually create new meanings and perceptions, for ourselves and for others, through our thoughts, actions, processes and products

by entering these spaces we can expand the elements of each experience and their interrelatedness

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My work focuses upon the creation and use of new tools for digital art --- what is different if users create, or help to create, the tools themselves?

More broadly, what is the interplay between what tools can do and how artists create?

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Interactive Media :: Max / MSP / Jitter

My software of choice for human interaction, media-mashing, data jockeying, and for exploring creative and educational possibilities using digital media, information, and ideas


Scored Compositions -- 1999-2004 -- a variety of examples from my theory / composition majors

Digital Audio -- 1999-present -- the continued exploration of computer-based sound and music

3D Design and Interaction -- 2003-present -- why work in two dimensions when we live in 3?

Multimedia with Flash -- 2000-2003, present -- learning what multimedia and interactivity make possible

Multimedia with Director -- 2001-2005 -- more of that exploration using a somewhat similar program

Multimedia with Processing -- 2007-present -- a revisiting of code-based multimedia

javascript and css experiments -- 2007-2008 -- a little randomness underlying the site

More thoughts on art, software, interaction, programming, and aesthetics

 

Experimental, ambient, interactive, audiovisual experiences :: axion theory

Video on the Max/MSP/Jitter page

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Computer tools I swear by:

Open Office is one of the best open-source projects around. Want a full suite of professional-grade office software? For free? Get it here.

Use this excellent, free typing program to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout, and see why QWERTY is just plain silly!

 

 

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yes, you have to type it in manually. don't blame me, blame the bots.
surely they can scan this by now anyways.

 

When going through life, do as a good microphone does: "Be sure your output is low impedance, balanced, and floating."