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At Scopely, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer and later Staff Engineer, collaborating with people across several teams and projects. My work included the Scopely Creator Program website, where content creators can explore opportunities to feature Scopely's games.

Taped Together was a collection of publicly submitted responses to the prompt “I am getting vaccinated because…”. This is a digital version, inspired by the work of artist Mark Reinhart’s duct tape graffiti on city buildings.

For the third and final phase of Between the Sand, we expanded and lauched an interactive web application that premiered in Art the Science's Polyfield Gallery on December 5th, 2020 to coincide with World Soil Day.

Based on the poem January by Sadiqa Khan, January is a visual exploration of a fox’s imagined journey through the Davis Tannery Lands, a 37 acre brownfield site on the shore of the Rideau River in Kingston, Ontario. The poem was read by Sadiqa Khan and recorded by Matt Rogalsky.

Phase 2 of the Between the Sand residency was a public installation at the Modern Fuel ARC. The work was showcased for the first time alongside the sand coloumn used in the lab.

Visitations and Revisitations is a series of four audio pieces by Matt Rogalsky that was performed live at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts.

Solstice 2017 VJ Set from Decomposing Pianos on Vimeo. Writing custom web-based projection mapping and music visualization software is a pastime of mine. At the Summer Solstice Festival north of Toronto, the software made an all night appearance in June 2017, and then again in June 2018.

Between the Sand started as artist residency in Dr. Kevin Mumford’s Research Lab at the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It was organized, facilitated and hosted in collaboration with Art the Science.

Community Flow was created to bring together artworks from eight communities on the Canadian side of the Great Lakes. Each community had an artist work alongside volunteers to create one artwork from many smaller contributions.

Hyasynth Bio (Montréal, QC) contacted us to see if we would be interested in describing their industrial process they use to produce synthetic cannabis. A scroll story was created that allowed visitors to their site to follow the process from raw ingredients to finished products.

Writing custom web-based projection mapping and music visualization software is a pasttime of mine.

Depth to Water was created for the 17th Canadian National Conference on Drinking Water in Ottawa, Ontario to showcase how 367,089 private-well water data points can map the geography of Southern Ontario, Canada.

As part of Tone Deaf 14, a projection show was performed by Decomposing Pianos at the Isabel Bader Centre of Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario. For this performance, custom code was developed to map the wooden panels behind the main stage.

This project features T.S. Elliot's 1925 poem The Hollow Men as read in unison by a trio of computer voices. The audio was produced with an accompanying video and projected onto three dancers.

In 2011, Decomposing Pianos met and chronologically depicted 88 individuals to correspond to each key of the piano. The first twenty portraits were displayed at the State of Flux Gallery on March 26, 2011 to showcase the work in progress.

This is a live performance by Decomposing Pianos at the Modern Fuel ARC, the last show before moving from their downtown location at 21A Queen Street. This performance featured a 30 thousand pixel long cityscape rolling by under a microbial sky.

Originally created for an exhibition with the Agitated Plovers Salon, Intersection went on to win the Canadian Urbanism Award at the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) in September 2014, and was subsequently displayed across Toronto Subway stations in May 2015.

HTML5 Visualizer with MIDI Input from Decomposing Pianos on Vimeo. This visualizer was originally intended to present chords and tones for the Decomposing Pianos project 88 Years. An interactive piano keyboard was made using HTML5 canvas such that sounds could be played and portraits displayed.