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Gray area cultural incubator 2026
Gooism collective at @grayareaorg for the cultural incubator showcase 8/5 - 8/7 2026. We installed trussed LEDs, CRT towers, and an interactive LiDAR physarum network installation. Huge shoutout to everyone involved in the cohort and the entire Gray area staff 🫶

This iridescent physarum network was made using touchdesigner and an ouster LiDAR to control parameters on a per-pixel basis.

Physarum network inspired by techniques from @paketa12 !
Music @glooooooooooorp by @5projectors

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I’ve been collecting broken TVs from the sidewalk over the last few months and smashing them to see what kinds of cool glitches show up. Over time I’ve learned how lcd TVs are made using a microscopic layer of liquid crystals, pixel grid transistors, polarizers, color filters, and LED’s.

Depending on which thing breaks when it gets smashed will you either get lines of color running vertical and horizontal, rainbow and oil slick like patterns, spiderweb cracks, or just blotchy dead zones.

This project was going to evolve into an interactive piece where I covered the monitors in a polycarbonate sheet so viewers could push on and move around the glitches as part of the experience. However, when left for a while the glitches in the displays started to disappear as the crystal settled and the signal faded in large areas. Still super fun to break these in the creation of something new and beautiful, kinda like hatching an egg. by @5projectors

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I had the pleasure of performing a project of mine at @meowwolfdenver for the wedding of two legendary founders of artist living spaces in SF including @monument.house

The other talented artists involved included @1000instamilligrams who live coded the music, as well as @na_roda and @from.vacuum who also performed visual sets. I had such a great time working with everyone involved in making this night happen.

My project was made in touchdesigner using a combination of rutt etra effects, pixelated layers, and a plexus design using the proximity POP. #touchdesigner @touchdesigner #meowwolfdenver #meowwolf #projectionmapping by @5projectors

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🪶 So happy to have gotten the opportunity to exhibit “Murmur” a second time this summer at another festival outside. Murmur is an interactive installation where groups of geometry move according to a flocking algorithm similar to a murmuration of birds or a school of fish. Participants can move in front of the screen to disrupt the movement of the flock in realtime. Thank you so much to @ssbdfest for an incredible weekend and to everyone involved in helping make this happen 💛🫶🏝️ by @5projectors

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This past spring I had the pleasure of helping instruct undergraduate students in the Interaction design major at California College of the Arts alongside artist and professor Graham Plumb. @ccaixd @plumbgraham

The students were tasked with creating a choose your own adventure narrative based on imagined futures of technology. Using an immersive and interactive environment they created experiences that allowed the viewer to guide themselves through different possible future scenarios.

My role as the artist in residency was to engineer this immersive environment with 4 projectors, buttons, and specialized audio. I used Touchdesigner to developed a modular media server that allowed the room to crossfade between the students visual scenes and to trigger audio cues in Ableton Live in real-time, all driven by the audience’s decisions.

I was also in charge of the projection mapping/blending the 4 projectors across the walls and projecting onto 3D physical objects in the center of the room

This was a ton of work and it was super rewarding to see the students develop their projects over the course of the semester!

#touchdesigner #projectionmapping #creativecoding #interactiondesign by @5projectors

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3 months ago

✨art installation at vitarave 2026 🍀🫧🌲🪾
So inspired by everyone at vitarave and by @vitamin1k for putting on such an incredible event in Shasta trinity national forest this past weekend. I exhibited a project titled murmur , an interactive installation where abstract geometry flocks in organic motion similar to schools of fish or a murmuration of birds. Participants could disrupt the movement patterns of the flock by motioning in front of the screen which would cause the flocks to scatter.
Couldn’t have been able to do this without my boy @detronome
Thank u to everyone involved 🫶🐸🪾 by @5projectors

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4 months ago

What does a forest compute? 🍄‍🟫 This is Generative Art in Natural Space: 1 - Fungal Network by Andrew Butcher

In the wet redwood forests of coastal California, fungal networks thread invisibly through decomposing wood and tannin-stained soil, triangulated webs of life solving the same computational problems as our most advanced devices: finding shortest paths, distributing resources, rerouting around failure. This work makes that hidden architecture visible, a generative mesh tracing the stages of colonization from first pioneer contact to full network maturity. We are not the authors of computational logic but rather one of its expressions, in perpetual pursuit of understanding patterns inherent to life itself, learning to read in our own technology what other organisms already do. 🌲

Andrew Butcher is a computational, new media artist and creative technologist. He explores how technology alters our perception of space and relation to one another, often through interactive installations, audio visual performance, and video games. His work explores themes of world building, speculative generative design, and the manipulation of scale. Andrew uses generative software, machine learning, and custom code to explore traditional themes in art such as the perception of light, space, form, and color and how the contemporary relationship to technology is transforming human experience.

Made during the The Olfactory Thing Incubator, a four-week incubator with FLORA AI exploring scent and smell in all it’s forms.

@florafaunaai is an AI-powered “infinite canvas” designed for creative professionals to generate and iterate on text, images, and videos in a unified, node-based workflow. It connects multiple AI models (such as Stable Diffusion, Runway, and Sora) into a single interface for professional design, marketing, and animation tasks.

tiat is a gallery for artists experimenting with emerging technologies ꩜ a 501c3 organizing exhibitions, workshops, and programs that bring together different disciplines, generations, and ways of thinking at the intersection of art & technology

#tiat #creativetechnology #artandtechnology #artandtechnology #creativ taken in San Francisco, California by @5projectors

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6 months ago

I was fortunate to be a part of an awesome lineup of artists for a show titled “Return to the Exhibition” at @tiat.place curated by @480productions . The original theme of the show was “attraction and repulsion, moments of love”. I created two pieces, one which draw the space between people with webbed lines and the other which draws a cat’s cradle like game between the tips of your fingers.

The first piece involves connecting people’s joints with lines. As the people get closer together, the lines spring out drawing trails of color. As they pull apart, the lines stretch and create thin strings with tension.

Cat’s Cradle is an audio reactive piece that changes based on the distance of each finger on each hand and has the same behavior between lines as the first piece.

Thanks so much to everyone involved in such a dope event!! All credit goes to @480productions and @waytooway for organizing by @5projectors

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8 months ago

#genuary 4:

Lowres. An image or graphic with low resolution, where details are simplified or pixelated

Made with #touchdesigner #genuary4 by @5projectors

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9 months ago

I had the pleasure of exhibiting again at @grayareaorg with @by_subset for another “bring your own beamer” event alongside some dear friends and other talented artists

@detronome and I showed a project that involves controlling stable diffusion in a game-like way using an Xbox controller. On the right side we controlled the transformation of a feedback system in touchdesigner with the joystick and buttons of the controller. This was then used as the input image for the streamdiffusion plugin running on daydream, created by @dotsimulate

We found prompts that involved art styles that are widely known on the internet worked the best, so we used many renaissance and modern artists as references including: Jan van Eyck, Yves Tanguy, Caspar David Friedrich etc. by @5projectors

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10 months ago

There’s a seemingly infinite amount of resources online about how to get started with Touchdesigner but if you’re looking to learn by asking questions in person, come to this total beginner workshop! (Pay what you want) by @5projectors

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