goa gil, china camp, sierras, 2006
Goa Gil's practice is to DJ continuously for 24 hours. When I introduced myself and said I'd be doing visuals, I asked if he had any preferences. All he said was "make it psychedelic" — and that I needed to commit to doing both nights all night. Which I did.
recess (rhythm society), cell space, sf, 2006
Projection mapping onto helium-filled weather balloons.
secret society (rhythm society), sf, 2007
Video Matic Lantern — a projector mounted on one end and a hemispheric mirror on the other, with the projection corrected to undistort the image onto a cylindrical screen. The screen was made by weaving wax paper together and fusing it with an iron. Suspended above the dance floor on steel cables. This is the only surviving photo.
portal (rhythm society), chabot space and science center, oakland, march 2015
Portal Portal — a 3D scene for Oculus Rift (still in beta at the time), incorporating live stereoscopic video of the event. I walked around with my laptop in a bag and the Oculus glasses and offered people to see the "Porta-Portal". The reproduced version uses a scene of Times Square as the portal destination.
byob (bring your own beamer), gray area, sf, october 2024
With Hope Cox. The video pipeline is a 3TrinsRGB into a Lo-Fi Future T-420. OBS running on a Mac Mini applies color adjustments and the result is fed back into the 3TrinsRGB as luma.
