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Iterations on a Mandolin
Context I was invited to give a talk at the Sheridan IXD 2023 Year End Show. Building on prior work with Cloud Storage and Traversals, this talk explores the use of AWS serverless computing as part of a video art practice. It has been adapted for YouTube. Please enable Closed Captions for clarity. Synopsis Fruit…
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AMPS Intellect Mediated City Award
I’m delighted to have been named a co-recipient of the 2021 AMP Intellect Mediated City Award together with Dr. David Harris Smith, Daven Bigelow, Calvin Hillis, Brian Detlor and Maureen Hupfer. The award recognizes our collaboration on the conference paper HereWeArt: Children’s Civic Engagement Through Augmented Reality Placemaking. In the paper, we describe the motivations,…
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COVID
I created a tool to chart COVID-19 case-doubling time per-country with chart.js, based on an Excel version (thanks William & Arnold). Source code critique and comments welcome. Integrated Systems Design students to get the inside scoop via virtual classroom next week.
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GrowOp2020 at Gladstone Hotel
I’m part of an exciting exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel from March 12-15, 2020. Grow Op (#GrowOp2020) is the hotel’s signature annual exhibition where art, urbanism, ecology and the environment intersect. It fills the hotel’s galleries and public spaces with new and immersive installations by more than 20 artists and collectives. I’d like to invite…
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Drawing Unlimited at Propeller Gallery
I was grateful to participate in Drawing Unlimited, a recent juried show at Propeller Gallery. My work, Revolve Face, was accepted into the show despite not involving pencils or paper, or really any semblance of traditional drawing materials at all. Evidently the jurors (Keijo Tapanainen and Joseph Muscat) were serious about their published call to…
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Trail of Tales
Whilst enjoying fine beaches (and wines) around Sandbanks Provincial Park this summer, I cycled along a section of the Millennium Trail in the nearby town of Wellington. I documented the traversal in spiral form, but my mind also circled back to wonder: Why is it called “A Linear Park for all the County“? The trail…
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Processing Nature: SHSM Workshop at HCA
On November 30th 2017, I ran a workshop with high school students from HWDSB. Hosted by the Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts, the workshop addressed specific digital media skills that students were learning in the context of their SHSM (Specialist High Skills Major) program. Workshop (Photos by Victoria Long-Wincza) We explored relationships between natural processes…
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Cloud Storage Workshop at Hamilton Public Library
In connection with my Cloud Storage exhibit this month – I also held a workshop at the Hamilton Public Library on October 28th. We explored a process to make spirals from rectangular images using Photoshop and JavaScript. Participants brought images along, which we transformed into spirals together. Thanks to Jared for bringing the image of the Library…
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