December 2007 I presented a project which used Max/MSP to illustrate a Maya-object database of Brooklyn.

I presented a series of data visualizations based on noise algorithms, saw tooth waves and Voronoi tessellations. Several of these can be found on the video tab at brianmacmillan.com, although the true impact of the videos cannot be seen, because the bitrates and resolution of the pieces are higher than can currently be viewed (practically) on the internet.

I presented some of my cubist dance video experiments as well as some of my algorithmically generated videos.

I presented Flappescope, a dance piece created in Max/MSP which uses kaleidescopes, mirror images and an absolute difference shader, https://brianmacmillan.com/videos

I assisted the Toronto artist Teresa Ascencao with this interactive art installation in 2011.

It was one of the most successful projects I have ever worked on. The way it worked was participants were given three pill-shaped cloth boxes which contained a gyroscope. Blue tooth signals from this gyroscope were used to filter video and sound, for example by increasing the number images displayed by a video kaleidoscope, or by changing the saturation of color and the pitch and speed of audio.

This is the video I produced to generate interest in my Human Rights and Technology course at Sarah Lawrence College, which for the record was my favorite class of all time. Why? Not only because of the excellent students but also because of the dynamic way we applied clinical psychology and digital media to a very practical topics, such as client care.

IDM/SUE Capstone Projects

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Johnathan’s project was one of the most interesting I’ve ever worked on. We worked closely together to connect a portable EEG device to Max / Msp to control a drum machine with thoughts. The final results were crude because we were only using a $400 EEG, which was not as accurate as more expensive models. In fact most of the effort in this project involved creating filters to reduce the amount of nose.

At this moment the Link to the project paper does not work, but will shortly.

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This project was a collaborative effort between Rosa Pena, Chris Giamarino, Cody Fulcher and Iffat Jahan. The goal of the project was to create a simple data interface to research about pollution in the Niger Delta. I am pleased to say that it led directly to at least one of the members of the team getting employment in his chosen field (urban development).