Duncan Gough
A creative technologist and autotelic, designing and juxtaposing ideas applied to creative communities, games, empathetic digital companions, and passive experiences.
I am a maker looking to answer questions about how we live alongside technology as it continues to disrupt and become invisible. And I am trying to thread the needle between initiating meaningful work for large audiences, creating art that moves people, and getting paid.
Creative Technology
Areas of focus
- offline, ambient, passive technology
- emotionally intelligent devices
- people & story-telling
Output
- Those concerning the ambient haus:
- Peacelights - silhouette night-lights
- vrnjr - generative art with ambient lifecycles, embedded in furniture
- Maylo - environmental audio recognition using pytorch, Quick, Draw! dataset, and AudioSet
- Ara - a physical AI songbird companion that knows music theory and generates its own birdsong
- Glype - AI generated hiergoglyphs that act as a daily horoscope
- Those concerning the internet:
- Radio Robot - the radio station run by robots
- ¡hypebot! - the rpi/e-ink speech recognition and meeting augmentation bot
- Amy Href - a trainable newsletter-parsing bot for your inbox
- bliss - a living data visualisation of social activity across London
- Taller - 4sq for elevation
- metro - a mobile game that was only playable offline and underground
- Spotlight - a theatre management sim
- Jewel Thief - a one-button casual game
- WordSlider - a word puzzle game
- GrokItBot - a trainable Bayesian ICQ/MSN chatbot
- Those concerning people:
- Somewhere - a community for creatives to show their working
- Storythings @ Dublin Maker Faire - a sock-puppet show
- PMOG - turning the internet into a passively multiplayer space
Recognition
- Creative Review, The AI Issue - for work in passive AI and digital art
- The Next Web winner - Best Startup, Somewhere.com
- Schön! Magazine - featured as part of a 'future is now' series
- Guest speaker, MEGA Plus - Media Business School
- Guardian.co.uk - named Runner-up Game of the Year, Gamelayers.com
- The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences - nominated for Game of the Year, Gamelayers.com
- Multiple conference appearances including Festival of Marketing, Creative Mornings, Playful, and Wired
Miscellaneous
- Full portfolio
- GitHub
- Some icons by Freepik, CC 3.0 BY
