Below is a sampling of recent projects I’ve produced and articles I’ve written about them: audio, video, VR, AR, and interactive media.
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360° VIDEO: 11 million viewers can't be wrong. Discover six of The Met's iconic architectural spaces in a fresh, immersive way. The series features video captured using moving rigs of 360° cameras, allowing you to look in all directions, and hover as if in flight.
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PODCAST: Hear poignant personal stories about art's connection to wellbeing in The Met's award-winning podcast series, Frame of Mind. Launched during the pandemic to connect more people to art as a powerful resource in their daily lives.
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360° AUDIO EXPERIENCE: How do you create a "you-are-there" audio experience in 17th C France? This 3-D audio tour accompanied the landmark Met exhibition, Visitors to Versailles. It presents dramatizations of actual accounts of palace visitors using 40 tracks of binaural sound.
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WRITING: Eavesdropping on history: What inspired The Met's first 3-D audio experience? How we bridged the centuries-old gap between 17th C. palace visitors and Met visitors today.
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INTERACTIVE TOOLS: Multi-media presentations called "PRIMERS" offer offer audiences a quick & immersive look at select Met exhibitions. Designed as "mobile first," to reach people wherever they are.
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VIRTUAL REALITY: How do you commemorate a landmark exhibition that the pandemic closed after only 9 days? This VR experience allows 360º exploration of The Met Breuer's retrospective: Gerhard Richter: Painting After All.
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AUGMENTED REALITY: This AR experience reveals a secret hidden in plain sight: ancient sculpture was multicolored, not white. Use your smartphone to explore the details of a sphinx and even to place her in your own space. Tap for scientific discoveries about pigments, or snap a selfie in her headdress.
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PODCAST: How to bring alive the beauty and controversy of a building's history? "The Art of Space" offers lively, behind-the-scenes vignettes about an iconic building and its architect, Marcel Breuer, including 1960's era archival recordings of the man himself.
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AUDIO TOUR: Sometimes even the experts wonder: How come Dutch masterpiece paintings remain so compelling today? Hear Met experts muse on the question, along with a poet, florist, and cinematographer.
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WRITING: How can sonic storytelling break new ground for immersion? Binaural audio recordings enabled rich sonic landscapes that listeners describe as uncanny, as if they're walking the halls of the Palace of Versailles alongside those speaking in the 17th C.
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WRITING: How was the pandemic a catalyst for a podcast about art's connection to wellbeing? Some backstory on why we wanted to launch the podcast series, Frame of Mind.
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WRITING: What happened behind-the-scenes in producing a spherical 360° video in The Met's famous Temple of Dendur? Hint: it wasn't just shooting when it was empty at dawn and dusk.
“Eye-opening”
Frame of Mind: An Art & Wellness Podcast
The Met’s first podcast series, Frame of Mind, is about art’s connection to wellbeing.
Hear poignant personal stories from Met staff, medical practitioners, activists, artists, a barber, composer and others. Available wherever you get your podcasts. 100K+ listens.
2022 Signal Award: The largest honor for podcasts globally that seek to "honor and celebrate the people and content that raise the bar for podcasting,” and that "lift up and showcase the podcast industry's diversity and depth."
“Really powerful and very moving”
Chroma AR
This Augmented Reality experience combines art history, science and selfies to “wow” users with a secret hiding in plain sight: Ancient sculpture was multi-colored, not white.
Using their smartphones, users can virtually recreate an ancient Greek sculpture of a sphinx in full color, in their own space. They can compare the reconstruction of its original vivid colors with how it looks today. The project was a collaboration between scientists, imaging specialists, conservators, technologists, and art historians and includes both interpretive and playful components.
The AR experience accompanied the exhibition: Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, July 5, 2022–March 26, 2023 and is no longer live online.
Primers
This series of interactive multi-media presentations are designed “mobile first” for use on-the-go. They offer a quick & immersive look at select Met exhibitions, and share key ideas in a lively, informal way.
2020 GLAMi Award Finalist. 2020 Webby Award Nominee
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This PRIMER accompanied The Met exhibition, The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570. Learn how power struggles in 16th-century Italy were epic - and how one family crushed it. Discover what one young Florentine understood about influence, and the central role that arts and culture played in Renaissance politics. What were the social media channels of Cosimo’s day? This Primer will give you a glimpse of how he and his inner circle leveraged them to promote the Medici brand.
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This PRIMER accompanied The Met exhibition, Alice Neel: People Come First. Neel made NY her home and her muse. This Primer shows her understanding that the people make the place—the borough, the neighborhood, an individual city block. And above all, she recognized that even among the millions, every person is unique, worthy of being portrayed with dignity and agency.Take a look at New York—and New Yorkers—through her eyes.
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This PRIMER accompanied The Met exhibition, Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock and Roll. Rock and roll is, and has always been, a sonic and cultural force. This Primer lets you hear from the musicians themselves, discover their iconic instruments, and experience a few of the defining moments of rock and roll history.
The Met 360° Project
This series of six short videos presents The Met’s architecture in dramatic new ways using a moving rig of spherical 360° cameras.
We strung cables to move cameras up high, and removed protective covers from works of art - all to allow viewers to explore The Met as never before - from wherever they are. I wrote about how we did it here, if you’re curious.
11 Million + views.
2019 GLAMI Award. 2017 Webby Award. 2017 Shorty Award
Immersive 360° Audio Experience
How do you create a "you-are-there" audio experience to bring alive a royal court in 17th C France? This 3-D audio tour accompanied the landmark Met exhibition, Visitors to Versailles (1682-1789). It presents dramatizations of actual accounts of palace visitors using 40 tracks of atmospheric binaural sound.
2019 GLAMi Award. 2017 Shorty Award. 2017 Webby Juried Award. 2017 Webby People’s Voice award.