staging design/fab
prototyping the new gesture tracking rig
Over the last few weeks I've been prototyping the sensor rig for the upcoming gesture-driven performance system.
Rotation at each major arm and leg joint is tracked by simple 50k potentiometers. Dual-axis accelerometers are mounted on each hand.
custom instrument development
Some descriptions of custom instruments recently developed for the Los Angeles band Moodorgan have been posted, here.
These are custom MIDI controllers and hardware designed for live performance.
entertainment production in LA 07-09
- creative direction
- event production
- film/video post-production
- film/video production
- lighting design
- on-site install/support
- project management
- staging design/fab
- technical direction
- event
- festival
- installation
- nightclub
- Performance multimedia
- theater
- DMX control
- DMX lighting
- MIDI control/sync
- video projection
Digital/interactive infrastructure for events
I was the interactive and technology lead for a number of events produced by Jack Morton Worldwide.
In November 2000, I served as lead technologist for the production of a major investment bank's annual technology conference. Tech 2000 consisted of four days of presentations by representatives of major technology companies (with as many as five presentations occuring simultaneously), keynote speeches, analyst discussions, and special events.
Working as a freelancer, from my studio as well as at the Jack Morton Worldwide Boston office and on site in Baltimore, I designed, budgeted, and led the development of the networked multimedia installation for the event. This installation was designed to help guide the attendees though a complex facility and schedule, to assist with communication and to answer questions, and also to show that this bank's conferences are on the cutting edge of technology.
The hotel atrium was the central traffic area between the entrance and the presentation rooms. Plasma displays ran a Director-based application with a Tech 2000 theme animation and real-time updating information such as the current presentations, schedule
Plasma displays at the entrance to each presentation room showed the name of the current presenter and the name of the presenter to follow. All information was automatically updated from the backend database.