SASS Repository

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

Artist/Designer/Educator currently posted at the University of Kentucky in the School of Art & Visual Studies (SA/VS). He/him.

https://chadeby.studio

• 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, something like InferKit (nee Talk to Transformer)) as a strategy to defamiliarize/decolonize the night sky and the stories about it.

• Interested in building 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 a great project. 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). Could be a public-engagement exhibit for the museum?

• 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. JTK Vostok: https://novelkeys.xyz/products/jtk-vostok-1-gb and SA Yuri: https://drop.com/buy/drop-t0mb3ry-sa-yuri-custom-keycap-set/details for examples.