photo courtesy vue.org

Visual Understanding in Education
1999-2006. Visual Understanding in Education (VUE) conducts educational research focused on aesthetic and cognitive development that results from interaction with art. Based on its findings, VUE develops programs for schools and museums, principally Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). I have been authoring CD-ROMs for teachers to use with VTS and now am acting as consultant for VUE's new teacher-trainer portal which will have outreach and interaction capabilities such as newsgroups and podcasts. (in progress: http://www.vtstraining.org.)

Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) Digital
2005-6.With its new X-room and immersive interactive displays, the IMA is embracing future technology. I am acting as technical consultant and creating blogging and podcasting sites for various exhibitions. http://fgtblog.ima-digital.org.

In The Garden Of Antiquities
2004. I did all of the actionscript programming and most of the design for this museum education website for a joint exhibition by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Freer Sackler Gallery. Launch Flash website.

Chicago Initiative Project CD-ROM
2004. Interdisciplinary collaborative study of Chicago Technology / UIUC and City Of Chicago Mayor's Council. In this class we studied several hi-tech/creative class friendly cities, ran focus groups, visited and conducted interviews to research what was needed in order to market Chicago as a New Tech Industry city. The final output of our semester was a booklet, CD-ROM and website. (In addition to researching, conducting focus groups and interviews, I also programmed and designed the CD-ROM/Website. CD available upon request - contains internal research information.)

Design+Digital Rehearsal Studio
1999-2004. For the University of Illinois. During the 3 years I was Visiting Project Coordinator in the Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Departments, I headed, programmed, or acted as technical advisor, for more than 30 interdisciplinary Arts and Technologies projects across the University. Highlights include "Leda And The Swan, An Immersive Mythological Event" - a digital video set to a 30-piece live orchestral ensemble with live dance and live video manipulation, "A Walk Along the Yamuna" CD-ROM study of a project to redesign the landscape around the Taj Mahal... (I also designed and programmed this website in flash, html, ASP). (http://www.rehearsal.uiuc.edu)

Frasca Flight Simulators
1987-1990. Frasca International, Inc., Urbana, IL. Frasca builds large-scale walk-in flight simulators with real analog flight instruments- in the late1980s, they had just upgraded their systems to 80386 motherboards with chipsets that I would initialize and program, all in 8086 assembler language. I wrote a SCSI (a new technology back then!) downloader which circumvented the SCSI protocol and worked much faster, worked on 6 axis motion-bases, 3-walled visual systems, and minimizing real-time interrupt code for wind and flight equations. (And had a really bad haircut; see picture above.)