What would it mean to put vibration and touch at the center of a music?

Four people dancing on a raised dancefloor. The dancefloor has haptics and lights embedded, and is accessible via a ramp.

Haptics x Smithsonian American Art Museum

[Haptic Translation of Music] [2023] [CHI Conference]

I was lucky enough to co-design haptic technologies for several video pieces in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's (SAAM) exhibition Musical Thinking, in collaboration with the wonderful folks at Gallaudet's Motion Light Lab. We designed a vibrating dance floor and various haptic seating, for which I created bespoke haptic translations of the audio in the video pieces. It was a TON of fun!

Learn more about the project in this Forbes article and on the Smithsonian YouTube Video

A haptic instrument prototype: A black cardboard box with googly eyes, pipe cleaners and bumper dots. The instrument is surrounded by 2 amplifiers and a laptop with haptic composition software open

Haptics x Metro Deaf School

[Haptic Instrument Design] [2024] [NIME Conference]

What should devices used to create and experience vibration-based art (haptic instruments) look and feel like? In collaboration with a group of 24 awesome students at the Minneapolis Metro Deaf School and researchers at the Playful Learning Lab, we tried to find out!

On-Going Work:

A vibrotactile transducer that converts electricity to vibration. It is shaped like a hockey puck with three plastic stabilizing legs extending outward from it.

Haptic Instrument

[Forthcoming Device for Joy]

Working with an, eclectic, and iexciting group of folks to design and fabricate stand-alone instruments that can be used to create and experience haptic/vibration art.

Haptic Art Festivals

[Forthcoming Event]

Be on the lookout for some haptic art workshops happening in March 2025 and mini-festivals in June 2025 at Gallaudet University in Washington DC

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