TheYard features an unreal experience within an otherwise familiar setting. Upon entering the environment, the user finds himself navigating an everyday backyard as if he were the size of an ant. The user makes his way home through grass, debris, and other obstacles, but not without the threat of the unknown beyond the next thicket of grass.

What do pianos and virtual reality have in common? Everything.

In this piece we connect a digital piano with a MIDI interface to a Virtual Reality system. The music played creates the environment around the user based on the overall key, the velocity of percussion and the chord progression detected. Something for the Piano Forte utilizes Performer, CAVE, and PD for graphics, stereo separation and MIDI interpretation.

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This installation is an attempt to investigate online security. Participants agreed to have their network traffic collected and displayed in a central location at the CEPA gallery (Buffalo, NY)

As streams of data filter in the Red and Blue text that compose the flag changes. The text that is composed of web pages visited, emails, cookies, etc. represents the people on the other end. There's a link to the video below.

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The Tantric Hand is a resistance based instrument controlling a 16 step sequencer. A small micro controller and RC circuit in the box measures the resistance in different areas of the hand and relays that data to a computer.

The computer interprets the signal and triggers changes to the algorithm which creates the sequential beat. Through cryptic interaction a user can change the tone, tempo and key of music.

This installation examines environmental decay that results from human interaction. A touchscreen displays a series of opposing images layered over one another which distort and deteriorate as pressure is applied.

The opposing images that are layered upon each other represent the polarity between environments that have had comparatively little human interaction and those that are cleared scarred. The touch is a one way catalyst creating a soup of pollution and the pristine.

April 25th 2006, CEPA. Marc Bohlen's Media Robotics.

Blue Text, Red Text was first shown here. A night of interactive robotic works.

Downstairs gallery at CEPA. Various interactive electronic works from Paul Vanouse and Marc Bohlen's art and robotics classes. Here the Tantric Hand made its debut.

May 5th, 2005, Crosby Hall. Joint show with Media Study and Architecture exhibits.

April 18th, Squeaky Wheel. Interactive computer art works from various Bufalo VR artists.

Networked VR show. April 24 - 25, 2004, CFA.