Art
I have made light, animation, and visuals for music and theater since 1993. The questions are the ones I work on as a scientist: how people see, and how what they see can move with what they hear.
Live, now
Liquid Light, in your browserThis piece draws itself while you watch, and it is new for every visit, so nobody else sees this one. It follows the method of my 1998 patent: new edges dissolve into the image, timed by a stream of events, while bands of the old image dissolve away.
A recording of Radiant Rhythms, made with the same self-synchronizing method. Put on any music you like (ambient, jazz, classical, whatever is playing on your Spotify) and watch. The images will seem to move with it.
Watch two hours of Radiant Rhythms 2 on YouTube (great to play on mute at a party, with your own music!). My favorite stretch starts at 28:14.
Liquid Light, 1993 to 2005
Rose WindowFrom Liquid Light, a series of generative images and animations made with software I wrote, around 2000. This version was edited in 2020. The colors of this site come from it.
The patent behind the method, and its Figure 1, are on the Inventions page.
Theater, from 2021
Curie Curie and The Passage
I made the computer-generated visuals for two works by the Transversal Theater Company, the experimental company Bryan Reynolds founded in 2003 with a group of other artists. Curie Curie, written and directed by Bryan, premiered at UC Irvine in October 2021 and was then performed in Warsaw, Belgium, and Amsterdam in 2022. Watch the Curie Curie trailer
The Passage is a dance-theater piece about big-mountain skiers and an avalanche in Alaska's Chugach range, choreographed by Jessica Dunn. Watch The Passage
Mind, Eye, and MotionA permanent exhibit I created for the Swiss Science Center Technorama in Winterthur, in 1998. Try it in your browser.
The Psychedelic Bubble-DomeAn arts-science installation I made with Paola Dyboski for the Conwy Feast in Wales, in October 2014. Paola founded Dr Zigs, the giant-bubble company in North Wales, and the dome was hers. Inside, her bubbles drifted through my projections, which included the KaleidoSphere. Paola went on to start Bubbles Not Bombs, and I am on its board.
Psychedelic Bubble-Dome. Photos and video by James Intriligator.
In the studio
Living Music WorldIn progress: a world that reads the structure of a whole piece of music and evolves with it, so you can move through it. The video is ten seconds of it running to Bach, and below are frames from early tests.
Videos
- Radiant Rhythms 2About two hours of visuals that seem to move with any music
- Jimages 2018, version 1A visuals series from 2018
- Curie Curie, trailerThe Transversal Theater Company production, with my visuals (on Vimeo)
- The Passage, trailerThe dance-theater piece about an avalanche in Alaska, with my visuals (on Vimeo)
- Beethoven, a Razumovsky quartet, paintedMy paint visuals to one of Beethoven's Razumovsky string quartets (2020)
- Old OnesMusic by my friend Matt Grant, who sings and plays every instrument; images by me (2018)
- CrowMusic by my childhood best friend Patrick Williams; animations by me (2018)
If you curate, program, or make work in this space and want to talk, write to me.