A creative technologist and autotelic, designing and juxtaposing ideas applied to creative communities, games, empathetic digital companions, and ambient 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, and creating
art that moves people.
Thee 🏴☠️ radio station run by robots, 🦜 not included. Created out of a desire for an always-on, passive listening experience, the Radio Robots had free reign to deliver their own programming schedule with only a few strict rules.
#text-to-speech #APIs
Can AI be creative? 🤔
A lightning talk at the Site Gallery that helped me to condense some uncertainties around AI into to work on digital companionship.
#AI #creativity
¡hypebot! 🎤
A quick lockdown hack to create a speech recognition hype-bot as a kind of meeting augmentation companion.
#speech-to-text #IoT
Amy Href 📰
A trainable newsletter-parsing bot that lived in your inbox and managed a daily dashboard of fresh links and news, and learned what content was the most shared, popular, and 'liked'.
#machinelearning #rubyonrails
bliss ⛯
“Everywhere you look, there seem to be increasing signs that we are living inside a novel that JG Ballard started to write at the exact moment he died, a novel that takes the form of a reverberating hallucination”
Inspired by this quote I built a living data visualisation of social activity across London, mapping social media check-ins over an abstract Google Maps style background, to reveal the feedback loop when digital and physical meet.
#nodejs #dataviz
Metro 🚇
Playing on the theme of designing for opposites, this was a mobile game about data couriers, designed for the underground and only playable offline.
#mobile #gamedesign
Jewel Thief 💎
A one-button/one-finger casual game designed for desktop and mobile with variations written in Flash and PyGame.
#gamedesign
Slider / WordSlider 🧩
A pair of match-three style word puzzle games, built using Pygame.
#gamedesign #pygame
GrokItBot 🤖
A trainable Bayesian ICQ/MSN chatbot, able to parse, learn and 'guess' using AIML.
#AIML #bayes
Those concerning the ambient haus
Peacelights 💡
Crafting a limited edition set of nightlights with silhouette inserts to create ambient, restful furniture pieces.
#productdesign
vrnjr 🎨
A physcial, generative art product with ambient lifecycles and a library of different design styles guided by a 'director' AI that selected the colour, effects, duration etc, based on a simple and effective time-of-day cycle.
#generativeart #proceduralgeneration
Maylo 🎧
Maylo used environmental audio recognition datasets to track and identify her environment by the background noises and draw in her sketchbook, creating an ML-powered record of each day. Using pytorch, Quick, Draw! dataset, and AudioSet.
#machinelearning #environmentalaudio
Ara 🐦
As part of my work investigating what it will be like to live with AI in the future, Ara is an experiment in understanding robotic companionship. Ara has been featured in an AI edition of Creative Review, exhibited at the Derby QUAD, and led to talks at the Site Gallery in Sheffield, and the Festival of Marketing in London.
#machinelearning #generativeaudio
Glyphe 🪷
Using a raspberrypi and eink screen to create a daily meditatative mood-setting selection of hieroglyphs that act as an ambient daily horoscope, deliberately open to interpretation. Icons from Alice Noir.
#ambientdigital #raspberrypi
iQu 👁️👁️
A consciously small and fun project to add life to an e-ink screen, these eyes refresh independently on a regular basis throughout the day, keeping track of the state of each eye in order to present a harmonius pair.
#raspberrypi #eink
Those concerning people and stories
Somewhere ⚡
Co-founded a future of work and employee engagement platform that encouraged visual sharing, community meetups, and prompted open discussions that focused on the how and why of what people are working towards.
#futureofwork #community
Storythings @ Dublin Maker Faire 🧦
Spent a day as part of a long-running arts and research studio, Special Branch, making LED sock-puppets whilst running a storytelling booth at the first Maker Faire in Dublin, 2012.
#storytelling #puppets
PMOG / TheNethernet 🕹️
Co-founded a games company in San Francisco and turned the internet into a passively multiplayer online gaming space.
#multiplayergames #play
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
Conference appearances including Festival of Marketing, Creative Mornings, Playful, and Wired