Portfolio
Selected Works
metamorphosis 2 - Stacy Grossfield / PROJECTION DESIGN
The Chocolate Factory, 2024
About the show: Stacy Grossfield’s dance/theater work is a blunt, graphic, macabre and vulnerable dissection of female pain, both physical and spiritual.
Design Goals: Integrate digital characters into the performance, giving their presence a ritual aspect; sci-fi associations
Implementaion: 3D holographic display traveling through the performance space mounted on a remote-controlled vehicle
The Smallest Unit is Each Other - Jonathan Gonzalez / INTERACTION DESIGN
BRIC, 2022
Project Goal: Design interactive media elements within a video installation, that allow viewers to control their viewing experience using their feet
Summary: The Smallest Unit is Each Other is multi-media artwork by Jonathan Gonzalez consisting of a six-part film, sculptural elements, and an interactive media controller designed by Gil Sperling.
Implementation: A foot pad was fabricated using metal tiles, pressure sensors and an Arduino microcontroller. Media Server: Isadora
Prototypes explored such functionality as basic playback control (play/pause/restart/rewind/skip etc.), dual-pad triggering (using different parts of the foot) and modulation using dynamic pressure sensing.
Operaworlds / VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
ITP Thesis Project, NYU Tisch 2021
Project Goal: Enhance Audience Understanding and Engagement in the medium of opera through virtual experience design
Summary: The project consists of a series of prototypes, each designed around a key scene in a specific opera. Users navigate a 3D exhibit space with myself as a virtual tour guide, and can experience the opera scene as a character, while having some control over the story.
Implementation: An early prototype was built as a live multi-user web experience, using Three.js and WebRTC to create a 3D environment where a guide and multiple users can interact.
The final prototype was built in Unreal Engine game engine as a single-user experience.
Character design: Reallusion Character Creator 3 and iClone 7. Characters were animated using Rokoko Smartsuit for body motion capture and iphone facial capture. animation was recorded using the iClone to Unreal Engine pipeline.
Interactive Scroll / INTERACTION DESIGN
ITP Winter Show, NYU Tisch 2019
Design Goal: A device that allows the user to physically interact with a variety of ancient manuscripts.
Implementation: Interactive physical installation using rotary encoders and an Arduino microcontroller to translate the physical rotation of scroll rods to the movement of a projected text, and a computer vision algorithm in Processing to track the user’s reading and project the underlying english translation
Composite Performer / DIGITALLY ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
ITP Winter Show, NYU Tisch 2020
Project Goals: Enhance the performative capabilities of the opera character by creating a hybrid digital body.
Develop tools for live perfomance that integrates real-time compositing of live motion capture data onto avatars in digital space.
Implementation: Built in Unreal Engine. Body motion capture using Rokoko Smartsuit. Facial capture using the Live Link Face app. Live streaming of mocap data into Unreal Engine over the internet.
Oba Qween Baba King Baba - Ni’Ja Whitson / PROJECTION DESIGN
Danspace Project, New York 2019
Design goals: Break the spatial boundaries of the venue, create the experience of a spiritual, cosmic journey
Strategy: Floor as only projection surface (audience viewing from above), African Cosmology as main content reference
Winner: 2019 New York Dance and Performance / Bessie Award for outstanding visual design
A Yiddishe Wagner / MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE
LABA - A laboratory for Jewish culture, New York 2017
“A Yiddishe Wagner” is an experimental opera project that offers a re-imagining of classical music history, asking the question “What if Richard Wagner wasn’t the original author of his operas, but stole the work of a forgotten jewish composer?
As the project’s creator, co-librettist, director and designer, I collaborated with musical artists and a Yiddish scholar to create a performance that sets music from Wagner’s Ring Cycle to a new libretto in Yiddish.
Design elements: Live video compositing (green-screen technology) used to re-contextualize the performers within the different narratives and cultural contexts of the piece.
Multiple layers of Audio - live music on stage and direct in-ear communication with audience through wireless radio
Uriel Acosta: I want that man! - by Target Margin Theater / PROJECTION DESIGN
The Chocolate Factory Theater, New York 2014
Design goals: engage with the ephemeral nature of language and ideas by creating an environment of fleeting/floating images
Techniques used: projection on fog, projection on bodies, pocket projectors as props
Recipient: Edith Luytens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund
The dances are for us / Everything you have is yours? / PROJECTION DESIGN
by Hadar Ahuvia
The 14th Street Y, New York 2017; Danspace Project, New York 2019
A dance performance about the history of Israeli folk dance, employing extensive use of projections as a tool for cultural criticism
Techniques Used: Motion-tracked body projection (Kinect), projection mapping
