Selected Talks

The JPEG is DEAD!

The JPEG is DEAD!

An exploration of online art exhibitions and archives, this talk is co-presented with Julia Krolik, who asks how galleries are challenging themselves to move away from a static image.

Data Art and Creative Coding

Data Art and Creative Coding

This is a talk/workshop co-presented with Julia Krolik that showcases some of our projects. The talk featured several live demos via screen sharing online with the Video Pool Media Arts Centre, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Data Art Web

Data Art Web

This talk showcases and discusses the data-focussed creative coding art practice at Pixels and Plans, a creative technology studio founded by myself and long-time collaborator Julia Krolik.

Paint to Programming - Audio Visual Algorithms

Paint to Programming - Audio Visual Algorithms

This talk was part of Paint to Programming, a collaboration between Art the Science and ArtSci Salon. The panel focussed on creating algorithms for science art and featured four presentations and an open discussion.

Creative coding for the web: A Cauldron of Canvas, SVG, webGL and webAudio

Creative coding for the web: A Cauldron of Canvas, SVG, webGL and webAudio

This is a talk I gave for ygkdevs, a developer meetup in Kingston, Ontario. In this talk I cover the art of “functionless” programming — creative coding! The joke here is that creative coding has no purpose, rather than being analogous to “object oriented”.

3D Modelling of highly Conductive Massive Sulphide Bodies

3D Modelling of highly Conductive Massive Sulphide Bodies

This is a technical presentation covering a compute engine I worked on under Yves Lamontagne of Lamontagne Geophysics, Ltd. The software, called MGEM (multigrid EM), models highly conductive bodies in environments with variable conductivity.