Projects, CV, Research Statement, Writing Samples and More

Curriculum Vitae

Research Statement

Writing Sample – Micro-Stories Live Grant Proposal

Writing Sample – Pro Android Media Excerpts (Chapter 1)

Current Projects:

Micro-Stories Live
Initiated in late 2014, supported by a grant from Google, Micro-Stories Live is an on-going series of live interactive storytelling experiments involving small audiences at a distance to test the hypothesis is that online storytelling will function best with small, highly engaged audiences that can interact directly with performers.
First Iteration Source
Second Iteraction Source

Servi.js
Servi is an easy to use open source JavaScript micro-framework for developing Node.js based web servers. I initiated and have worked with Sam Lavigne (lead developer) to develop it in support of teaching basic web development.
Documentation

Courier
Courier is an open source Android news reading application with features designed for privacy and security. These include support for Tor, encrypted data storage, and a panic mechanism. I have been the principal technical architect and a core-developer on the project.

Past Projects:

Local Report 2012
Technical Director and Software Developer for a performance featuring live audio and video from global participants using mobile devices (Android and iOS). This project was commissioned by Creative Time Reports and was performed at Eyebeam in October 2012. I architected and developed all of the software, Android application, iPhone application (collaboration with Jaron Moore), Multiscreen queue and projection system, VoIP queue and playback system.

ObscuraCam
ObscuraCam is an open source privacy aware Android application for removing metadata and obscuring faces in photos. I was the lead developer on the first version of this application created in partnership with WITNESS.

Vlinkr
A project dedicated to increasing the findability of online media. It consisted of an automatic recommendation engine that tied together individual and group behavior to recommend videos based on search terms and previous user behavior.


Participatory Media/Video Comments
(2005 through 2008)
A series of research and development projects in the realm of participatory media. All projects are systems where viewers’ comments on a video (live or recorded) are tied to a specific point in time in the video. This allows for automatic production of metadata associated with the video. This metadata is used to allow for better searching and browsing of online media.

QuickTime Embedding Plugin, QuickTime Audio/Video Posting Plugin, Windows Media Embedding Plugin (2006 through 2008):
A popular series of open source plugins supporting audio and video in the WordPress content management system. These plugins have garnered many mentions in popular blogs that list useful WordPress plugins including “Video, Music, Podcasts, Audio, and Multimedia WordPress Plugins” by lorelle on WordPress and “50 Tools to Use or Embed Videos in Your WordPress Blog” by Social Networking Articles Blog

Video and Image Moblogging with a Camera Phone (2005):
Article and Open Source software enabling MMS to blog posting for audio, video, text and images. Used on many websites including an experimental open video blog that I created Open MobVCasting Vlog and my personal video blog mobvcasting.

Whitman Local Report (2005):
Developed a video capture and upload program for mobile phones and a video sequencing application in collaboration with Hans-Christoph Steiner in support of performances by Robert Whitman. Participated in performances through August and September 2005. Project inducted into the Guggenheim permanent collection.

Interactive Tele-Journalism (2003-2005):
ITJ is a software and hardware platform that supports live interactive television production in a very low cost manner. This project utilizes open source software and low cost hardware along with broadband wireless access to capture and send live video to a television studio for mixing and rebroadcasting. Furthermore it allows viewers of the program the means to interact directly with the in the field “tele-journalist”.

ITJ has been used for several live events; most notably in coverage of the Republican National Convention as part of Konscious Convention. This live two part live television show was broadcast on MNN and featured “tele-journalists” inside the convention as well as outside covering protesters among other locations around NYC. These “tele-journalists” fielded questions from viewers and passed them along to the individuals they were interviewing.

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