SASS Repository

Currently based in Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A. (EDT/GMT -4)

• Light and sound
• Space art and artifacts
• Physical/digital, virtual/real border crossings and the resulting residues
• The human situation as tangle of matter and ghost
• Investigating and celebrating hidden structures of technological processes
• Generative systems
• Mapping

• Working with microcontrollers (physical computing)
• Graphic design/design history
• 3D modeling and rendering
• Digital fabrication
• Sound synthesis

• I am completely taken with Bulat Galeev's „Human-Machine“ that Natalie posted. Would like to make something which is not a replica, but a series of sound/light boxes in that spirit, especially with a communication/diagnostic function beyond the relaxing display aspect.

• The discussion of and links to clutural/archeo-/ethno-/astronomy got me thinking about a sort of on-demand system that could generate new constellations (possibly based on deep multicultural image databases by feature matching) and ad hoc legends (based on machine learning) as a strategy to defamiliarize/decolonize the night sky and the stories about it.

• Kind of want to build a single-pixel camera after learning about the Vidicon system on the Luna missions–not sure about conceptual rigor here, but I think it would be cool. Especially if there was a sound component. Makes me think of Jim Campbell's brilliant Portrait of a Portrait of Claude Shannon piece (of course that one has conceptual chops for days).

• I have poked around at the Copernicus Open Access Hub a little; I am thinking about how to satisfyingly sonify the pixel-by-pixel “diff” (difference filter) of satellite images of the same location from various points in time.

• I'm a bit of a mechanical keyboard nerd, and would be interested in working with the Museum of Cosmonautics archive to design/produce a more historically correct keycap set. There was a rash of Apollo-inspired themes for that anniversary recently, and there have been some Soviet-specific sets (Yuri and Vostok) but, as Peter pointed out, they have all been rather fanciful.