Creatures of the Fiery Pool

Creatures of the Fiery Pool is the interactive centerpiece, created by Tactable, of a traveling exhibit of Maya artifacts, focused on water’s centrality to their culture’s creation stories. I created interactive widgets that spring up when visitors touch the...

Imagine Words

ImagineWords let you write short stories and then click on any of the words to replace them with images from public image-sharing websites. You can use it to create and share these stories, called rebuses. ImagineWords was originally conceived as a downloadable java...

Underwired – touch sensitive light-up bra

UnderWired was our submission to the 2005 Show Us Your Bra auction/contest. The idea is simple – you cup your hand over one of the cups of the bra, and it lights up! It is built with a bra, a capacitive sensing chip, and some electro-luminescent wire.

RetroPrint – person to place messaging

I connected a receipt printer to the internet in an early exploration of person-to-place messaging. Why is this useful? Well, often I have some short bit of text on my computer that I need with my when I run out of the house. I can never find a pencil to write it...

Drums of War

I created this interactive art installation during the US invasion into Iraq to gives viewers an auditory display of the popular media’s war coverage. Drums of War (DOW) logged newswire stories during that period of time, parsing them for mentions of war, conflict,...