
### _stepper motors, disk cams, concrete blocks, spools, rubber cable, tall grasses, blower fans, sensors, found objects, custom hardware, custom software_

### _a room that i take care of_ is a responsive installation that is composed yet cultivated for its uncertainties – a balance between automation and something looked after. It is an environmental reduction that emphasizes the rhythmic and patterned structure of observable phenomena to seek out shared qualities between the natural and built world. This is demonstrated through the actuation of kinetic sculptures that find influence in various environmental systems, such as the stridulatory mechanisms of sound-producing insects, elements of infrastructure, and patterns of wind.

### The work emphasizes the self-balancing properties of natural systems as a critical response to society’s existing state of systematic complexity. In a time where full power over nature has been attained, rather than pressing forward, the work expresses a systems-based approach that is less about control and more about coexistence through balanced and shared relations. Such issues of complexity are examined through wistfully rethinking the relationship between the natural and human-made, promoting stability among built structures and non-human agents, as well as their shared surroundings.

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2019, _Ecology of the Edge_, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA

### 2019, _An Unreal Unity_, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


responsive installation

a room that i take care of


### _Creative Coding/Development using cables.gl (WebGL)_

### Artificial Ecologies is a virtual exhibition: it is both an architectural space and thematic grouping of the artworks of Isabel Beavers, Maru Garcia, Richelle Gribble, and Julian Stein. The space embodies systems of ecology that shift in scale and relate through macro/micro relationships.

### Link: [culturehubla.bitbucket.io/artificial-ecologies/](https://culturehubla.bitbucket.io/artificial-ecologies/)

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2020, _Virtual Refest_, CultureHub LA

### 2020, Supercollider Gallery

### 2020, _.ART_, Ars Electronica Online Festival


Virtual Gallery

Artificial Ecologies


### _stepper motor, disk cam, found objects, custom hardware, custom software_

### A sculpture that documents the rhythms of a staircase on Avalon Street (Echo Park, Los Angeles), leading from Echo Park Ave to the top of Elysian Park. 

### Inspired by several prompts from the [Directions to Nowhere in Particular](https://www.directionstonowhere.com/) app from [The Bentway](https://www.thebentway.ca/) and [From Later](https://fromlater.com/)

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2021, _Directions to Nowhere in Particular_, web


kinetic installation

rhythm assemblage: avalon stairs


### _stepper motors, spools, rubber cable, perlite blocks, custom electronics, custom software_

### a coordinated and patterned display of parallel lines that are set in motion through an array of motorized pulleys that stretch and release five rubber cables.

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2018, _Convolution_, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


rhythm assemblage: overhead lines


### _Sound Design, Software Development (Max/MSP)_

### _SERRA_ is an immersive environment for both installation and performance that approaches movement by adapting time and space scales to the activity of plants, and placing the human body within this new dimension. _SERRA_ is a collaboration between _Synthesis Center_ at _Arizona State Unversity_ and _O Vertigo Danse_ (Montreal, QC).

## Oana Suteu Khintirian — Lead Artist, Concept

## Sha Xin Wei — Concept

## Ginette Laurin — Choreography, Concept

## Todd Ingalls — Responsive Media Artist

## Julian Stein — Responsive Media Artist


Responsive Media Design

SERRA


### [Sounding Out Spaces](https://www.pariesa.com/single-post/garden-ecologies) is a site-responsive sonic art project that explores ecosystemic relationships between people, sounds and spaces. The project, which was started by sound artist and Arizona State University professor Lauren Hayes in 2014, involves musical and technical approaches for artistically responding to and participating in a given site. These sites have included buildings and spaces that have not been designated as concert venues, as well as outdoor urban and rural settings, and they range from retired industrial structures, visually stimulating landscapes, architecture with unique acoustic properties, natural environments, or places of cultural or historical significance.

### _in collaboration with Lauren Hayes_

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2017, Clark Park Community Garden, Tempe, AZ


site-responsive sound installation

sounding out spaces: garden ecologies


### _stepper motors, disk cams, found objects, custom hardware, custom software_

### rotating disks that are etched with everyday rhythms set found objects in motion.


stridulating prototype


## a song and dance for realtime 2D motion capture (openpose) + physical models


generative audiovisual composition

structure couples


### _tall grasses, sensors, oscillating fan, custom software, custom hardware_

### tall grasses embedded with photocell sensors are set in motion by wind, exciting a series of sonic physical models.


generative sound installation

the wind repeats itself: blue grama


### _React, Gatsby.js, Redux, graphQL, netlify_

### _Time is Out of Joint_ is a three-part exhibition that iterates across three different platforms: internet (digital), room (physical), and box (postal). Ever-multiplying ways to touch and transmit during a global pandemic, it features the work of CalArts’ 2020 graduated cohort in Art, Photography & Media, and Art & Technology.

### Link: [timeisoutofjoint.com](https://www.timeisoutofjoint.com/)

## Website Development — Julian Stein

## Website Design — Julian Stein, hannah rubin

## Identity Design — [Ella Gold](https://www.ellagold.com/)


Exhibition Website

Time is Out of Joint


### Time Lenses is an installation of multiple displays and cameras that are carefully placed in a physical location to refract activity into a suite of rhythmically recomposed movements. Live video processing instruments will augment the space so that any activity, rehearsed or unrehearsed, quotidian or marked, will refract into a suite of projections, each revealing a different temporal or rhythmic aspect of the corporeal activity within the space. An activity in the space will appear on these life-size installations that act as temporal lenses or temporal mirrors. As a set, these time lenses explode captured movements into constituent rhythms and display them "contrapuntally" on the image surfaces arrayed in the space.

### _in collaboration with Sha Xin Wei, Todd Ingalls, Oana Suteu Khintirian_

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2016, _Corps dessinant_, Musée des arts et métiers, Paris, France

### 2016, _Embodied Encounters_, Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, CA


time lenses: palimpsest


### _Software Development (PureData), Multi-channel Sound Design_

“The interactive and immersive installation Turcot: la route devenue architecture offers a tour of an interchange from the point of view of a pedestrian or cyclist. The Satosphere’s spherical projection sweeps visitors into the heart of this gigantic work by offering a perceptual experience on human scale. Visitors can transform the interchange in real time, changing its structure and the journey, by manipulating a wooden model placed, like a construction game, at the centre of the dome. They create another architecture, one that is dynamic and unstable, altering the idea we have of the structure and its final form.”

### — Monique Savoie - Society for Arts & Technology (SAT)

### _presented in the Satosphere at the Société des arts technologiques (SAT) in Montreal, as part of BIAN 2014._


Interactive Installation for Dome Envrionment

Turcot: la route devenue architecture


### i. table / ii. beams / iii. urban lights

### A three-piece installation of kinetic sound sculptures and video. The work plays upon levitation and stillness - set against opposing forces, with elements linked through their rhythmic activity.

### _in collaboration with Drew Barnet & Max Stein_

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2011, Art Pop — _Pop Montreal_, la Société Des Arts Technologiques (SAT), Montreal, QC

### 2011, VAV gallery — Concordia University, Montreal, QC


kinetic sculpture & video installation

aurora urbem


### _Software Development (Max/MSP)_

### With [Plan8](https://plan8.co), development of custom algorithms for transforming the human voice into animal sounds for _Whispering Wishes_, as part of _The Wishing Forest_ collection of interactive installations presented at Brookfield shopping malls in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the holiday season of 2019.

### Link: [plan8.co/work/wishing-forest/](https://plan8.co/work/wishing-forest/)

## Two Things — Creative Agency

## Red Paper Heart — Interactive Design Studio

### Plan8 — Sound Design


Responsive Sound Design

Whispering Wishes


### _Lighting Design, Hardware Design, Software Development (Max/MSP)_

### _Dans le bois_ was a public art installation by Stéphanie Leduc and Manuel Baumann, built outside of the Mont Royal metro station in Montreal, QC. The work featured two large panels of 350 LED lights, individually controlled via custom software and DMX.

### _in collaboration with Jerome Delapierre_


Public Installation

Dans le bois


### _single channel projection, 8.1 channel audio, 14’ × 4’ × 4’ projection surface, custom software_

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2018, _solo show_, UCLA DMA Grad Gallery, Los Angeles, CA


generative audiovisual landscapes

don't fog yourself with rosy clouds, or yellow


### _Lighting Design, Software Development (Max/MSP)_

### _Einstein’s Dreams_ is an environment in which visitors encounter installations with responsive fields of video, light, and spatialized sound, in a set of tableaus. Each tableau is inspired by a vignette from Alan Lightman’s novel, _Einstein’s Dreams_. Performers work with the textures and rhythms of lighting, sound and visitors’ expectations to create different kinds of time poetically related to the novel’s vignette.

Michael Montanaro — Art Direction

Sha Xin Wei — Concept

Jerome Delapierre — Visual Design

Navid Navab — Sound Design

Julian Stein — Lighting Design


Responsive Environment

Einstein's Dreams


### Invisible Lines explores the artistic potential of controlled feedback, and subsequently, the ability to compose temporal structures with microphone feedback as primary material. Six iconic SM58 microphones are coupled with six extracted speaker cones. Functioning as elementary components in both sound reinforcement systems and the history of sound art, the relationship between each microphone/speaker pair becomes audible. The six audible feedback loops are controlled by custom software which oscillates between states of stability and instability, resulting in a self-regulating and self-balancing system.

### Invisible Lines was awarded the 2014 Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists.

### _in collaboration with Adam Basanta_

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### **Exhibitions**

### 2014, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany

### 2014, _Data Salon IV_, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC

### 2014, _Cluster: New Music and Integrated Arts Festival_, Winnipeg, MB

### 2013, _Limits & Renewals Symposium_, Goethe-Institut, Montreal, QC


invisible lines


### _Visual Design, Software Development (Max/MSP)_

### _MindTravel_ is an immersive musical experience that takes place in theaters and outdoor spaces. Murray Hidary performs avant-garde real-time piano compositions, with generative visual accompaniments that are responsively influenced by the musical improvisations.

## Murray Hidary (Concept / Artist)

## Julian Stein (Visual Design, Software Development)

## Joshua Goldberg (Original Software Developer)


Immersive Visuals

MindTravel


### The Montréal Sound Map ([montrealsoundmap.com)](https://www.montrealsoundmap.com) is a web-based soundscape project that allows users to upload field recordings to a Google Map of Montréal.

### _in collaboration with Max Stein_

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### **Exhibitions/Presentations**

### 2013, Nuit Blanche 2013, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, QC

### 2013, Nuit Blanche 2013, Goethe-Institut, Montréal, QC

### 2012, Archives Sonores et Voix Radio - UQAM, Montréal, QC

### 2010, Humanities Congress 2010, Concordia, Montréal, QC

### 2010, Concordia University President’s Conference Series, Grande Bibliothèque, Montréal, QC

### 2010, Écologie Sonore — Société des Arts Technologiques, Montréal, QC

### 2010, Mobile Music — Journées de la Culture, OBORO, Montréal, QC

### 2009, arrêt média conference, Strasbourg, France


online audio archive

montreal sound map


### [Music for Lamps](https://www.musicforlamps.com) is an installation and performance work for 12 sound and light emitting lamps. Each lamp is discreetly outfitted with a surface transducer speaker, turning the lamps into both light and sound emitters. The lamps are arranged to both surround and permeate audience members, creating a 12 channel light and 14 channel sound performance.

### This work explores the continuum between the abstract qualities of sound and light, and the evocative qualities of domestic objects. Re-animated through digital technology, the lamps’ every “performance” is pulled apart and recombined in a novel manner. In this sense, Music for Lamps investigates both the potential of domestic objects, recalling their everyday functions and - through aesthetic transformation - transcending them.

### _in collaboration with Adam Basanta and Max Stein_

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### **Selected Performances + Exhibitions**

### 2017, _MUTEK.ES — Digi_Lab 1_, Mazda Space, Barcelona, ES

### 2015, _Light Show_, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON

### 2015, _MUTEK Montreal_, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, QC

### 2015, _MATA Festival_, The Kitchen, New York, NY

### 2014, _Festival Phenomena_, Montréal, QC

### 2013, _Innovations en concert_, La Sala Rossa, Montréal, QC

### 2013, _Play as Inquiry_, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL

### 2013, _Electric Eclectics Festival_, Meaford, ON

### 2013, _Sounds Like Audio Art Festival_, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK

### 2013, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC

### 2013, _Nuit Blanche 2013_, Goethe-Institut, Montréal, QC
