The exhibition is a series of data visualizations that weave together a story about population increase, climate change, natural disasters, refugees, and remittances and there affects on global communities. I was brought on to design and program the scenario about natural disasters and had the opportunity to work with three other amazing designer/programmers: Stewart Smith, Aaron Myers, and Bobby Pietrusko. The video was projected on a wall that circumscribes the gallery, surrounding the viewer with and immersive visual and audio experience. All visuals were created using Processing on the Eclipse platform.

The scenario on natural disasters compares the magnitude and frequency of different types of disasters with the population affected by them. Through this, we see that disasters in the “global south” have a greater affect than those in the “global north” or “rich north”. In trying to understand this concept, I created an application that parses a database of disaster data (year, magnitude, location, displacement) and allows you to compare these sets of data at various scales. I hope to post this application shortly, but for now check out the images:

I collaborated with Kristel Brinshot on this 30 second motion graphics PSA. It was part of a competition sponsored by PSAid.org who advocates sending monetary donations rather than food or clothing to countries who suffer from natural disasters.

This piece was presented as part of the Visual Music Concert performed by UCLA Design | Media Arts students under the direction of Casey Reas. Each student chose from a list of experimental sound pieces. We then used Processing to create our representation of this piece through animate visuals. My visuals are an abstraction of Matmos’ piece “Germs Burn For Darby Crash”. It was originally intended as a performance, as the visuals were 50% controlled by myself and 50% by the sound itself.