Category Archives: Experiments

As a co-director of Materials & Applications (M&A), a non-profit research center that functions as an outdoor exhibition space and community hub for the interface between architecture, art, and public space. For nearly a decade we have worked with the … Continue reading →

Sasaki asked me to help him develop a heartbeat sensor which looked like a shiny silver (his style) disc which appeared to float in the air, when touched, a users heartbeat would be analyzed and outputted.  I designed a prototype … Continue reading →

For 2 years at Art Center college of design in pasadena I taught a class called mediatecture for the visual communications department under Nik Hafermaas.  It was a great opportunity to explore the process of developing many different types of … Continue reading →

For 4 years I taught at Art Center in numerous departments and classes, but my last class in the Environmental Design was a studio focused on materials and installation.  I did a number of classes in this area but this … Continue reading →

Rob Ley and Joshua Stein asked me to develop a prototype animation and driver system for a Shape Memory Alloy network.  Lucas Remus was an intern who helped extensively and once we had a working system it was mass produced … Continue reading →

A public mental beacon for the excitement and fascinations felt throughout the night. Participants will have the chance to broadcast their inner brain wave activity into the night sky of Santa Monica. Oliver Hess, Jenna Didier and Marcos Lutyens of … Continue reading →

For Ball Nogues studio’s PS1 installation called Liquid Sky I worked with Nicholas Blake and Jenna Didier to design and engineer two dump buckets and numerous drum machine controlled sprinklers located atop the installation that kept weekend revelers cool and … Continue reading →

UNDEREXPOSED Interactive DJ Booth at Project Vegas This Commission was inspired by various ideas including the floating movement of jelly fish, Ned Kahn’s explorations of rotation and wind and the classic Marilyn Monroe updraft moment that has been reinterpreted by … Continue reading →

A project for Natalie Jerimencenko at Post Masters Gallery in Manhatten.  This was a bird perch that when used by a bird cause to jets to fire water into the garden below.  Plumbing by Jenna Didier.

I created the animation software and driver system for a high torque linear actuator which opened and closed the aperture of this incredibly beautiful structure designed by Jakob + Macfarlane with lead architect Blair Ellis for the Sci Arc gallery.

After meeting Luther Thie he proposed an interesting challenge of creating an aqueous animation system, which instead of using bubbles used colored dyes.  The interesting part was how to keep the colored dye from sublimating and diminishing the contrast in … Continue reading →

First Supper A performative dinner party. An interactive exploration of sustenance and our fantacies about its sources and destinations. It will be visible to the visiting art crawlers as both a projection on the building and through conveniet windows. The … Continue reading →