Interactive

Something Musical About Forms

desk with keyboard monitor and miscellaneous items

Something Musical About Forms is a musical step sequencer drum machine disguised as a form entry task on a 1980s style text-based computer terminal interface. The work was shown during the event: DAWN of Compliance which took place on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, a creation of the studio Also.Does.Stuff. DAWN of Compliance is an immersive theater created around the concept of a dystopian corporate office environment where attendees are treated as new office hires. Continue reading →

Almost Mirror

Almost Mirror is almost a mirror. It encourages the participant to bring more fully into to consciousness the medium of the color digital display. This display, like most displays, represents a simulation of a full-color reality through the use of only 3 colors of light: a Red, a Green and a Blue that some-what match the prominent light sensitivity of “red”, “green”, and “blue” cones in some human eyes, to create the illusion of a full color experience. Continue reading →

City Built

City Built by Andrew Ringler; adapted from code by Luca Sassone Schizzo Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike, October 2nd, 2010

City Built is an algorithmically generated line-drawn city skyline created in the Processing language. City Built was shown as a projection on a building facade most evenings from 5—9pm November 15th 2019 through February 2020 in Union Square, Somerville Massachusetts. City Built is supported by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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můj-emoji

můj-emoji, by: Alyssa Ringler + Andrew Ringler. Photograph by Alyssa Ringler
Valašské Meziříčí, Česká republika: Festival Světlo Valmez | Valmez Festival of Lights + Music September 6-7, 2019

Collaboration with Alyssa Ringler

můj-emoji was created by Alyssa Ringler and Andrew Ringler and was installed from September 6-7, 2019 at the Valmez Festival of Lights in Valašské Meziříčí, Česká republika: Festival Světlo Valmez | Valmez Festival of Lights. It was funded through a grant by the U.S. Embassy Prague, Office of Public Affairs Small Grants Program with additional sponsorship from Festival Světlo Valmez. Continue reading →

Public Radio

Public Radio is a collaboration between New American Public Art and Andrew Ringler.

See New American Public art’s post about the radio at newamericanpublicart.com/publicradio.

Public Radio is a giant controllable public FM radio. It plays music from FM stations, visitors can change the station or volume by turning giant plastic wheels mounted on the front. I was responsible for the design and fabrication of all electrical components including: audio, FM radio control, lighting, channel and volume changing sensors as well as all programming of the microcontroller. Continue reading →

Slightly Structured Visual Noise

Visuals by Andrew Ringler mimic-ing the Cirque Noir Elephant on Ball logo reacting to sounds by Know Thyself by Aphrohead and Clarian from Founders of Filth Volume One Felix Da Housecat

“Slightly Structured Visual Noise” is a constantly evolving visual experience running throughout the evening at Cirque Noir X Houston X Scorpion (November 10th 2018) reacting to the DJ’s music live. “Slightly Structured Visual Noise” runs unattended as an autonomous agent-based model taking cues from the DJ’s sound in addition to following beautiful semi-harmonious gradient noise spaces like ridged multifractal, Perlin, Voronoi and spherical.

I created a set of sound-reactive Processing sketches that played throughout the evening generating unique and ever-changing visuals on multiple screens, walls and surfaces always reacting to the ever changing DJ’s beats.

Video-2-Slit-Scan App

Video-2-Slit-Scan Quick Demo.

Video-2-Slit-Scan is an App I created that allows you to create a slit-scan image from a video. It provides a graphical interface for adjusting slit position and size. Video-2-Slit-Scan can support very large videos with modest RAM since it streams in the input video and writes out the output image to disk in chunks.

Download on Github.

wellspring fords slit scan image

Audio Visual Experiments With Daniel Reynolds

Experiments With Daniel Reynolds.

I got to create some audio and visual experiments with Daniel Reynolds in the Wolfram Cambridge office while Dan was doing a residency there. We had a great time and produces some fun visuals, I hooked up a version of my Bouncy Piano, to Dan’s enormous analog effects pipeline. Dan experiments a lot with fractals, lately he has been exploring Mathematica to generate and manipulate fractals in real-time.

Dan regularly performs his visuals in concerts in New York, teaches and speaks at Wolfram conferences.

Fruit Beets

visitors play with fruit on table

Fruit Beets is a collaboration between myself and Philip Gedarovich. Fruit Beets is an interactive sound and visual experience activated by the fruit and vegetables of festival visitors. Installed on a banquet table inside a white tent at the Somerville Agricultural Festival on October 2nd 2016. Continue reading →

Tangible Programming

The Tangible Programming project was created as the result of a collaboration between Anthony Baker (Harvard Graduate School of Education), Scott Penman (MIT Architecture Design + Computation), and myself during Hiroshi Ishii’s Tangible Interface course at MIT in the Fall of 2015. We decided to use the already existing Transform table Ishii’s lab had already built to create a tactile programming language.