2025

How Many Birds Would It Take to Carry My Shadow is an immersive installation transforming participants’ silhouettes. Using a depth Kinect camera, the work captures bodies in real-time. I convert their silhouettes into point clouds that either scatter or assemble in response to human gestures and live music improvisations.

Inspired by the photographic work of Xavi Bou, which captures the trajectory of birds in flight, I attempt to visualize shadows similarly, as temporal collective motion.

software → TouchDesigner

hardware → Kinect V1

captured → Magda Gourinchas & Stephan Zyngier

2025

I’ve spent years wrestling with relentless sinus problems. Over the years, I’ve acumulated a substantial folder of CT scans, MRIs, doctor’s notes, each a close-up dissection of all the nooks and crannies within my face. After my most recent scan, I felt particularly compelled to turn these unsettling documents into something I can interact with, and play with. 

This particular work scrolls through my CT scan slices with a simple hand-tracking setup. A pinching motion lets me flip through layers of tissue and bone, and finger rotation swaps between views (front, top, profile).

I gently excavate what once felt alien into something I can touch, move, and slowly understand. And, in a strange way, it is comforting...

personal medical documents

software → TouchDesigner

captured → Magda Gourinchas

2024

Sudden Occlusion is "a phantasmagoric horror-road movie" directed by Rebecca Shapass and "set in the simulation of an autonomous car’s AI-training system." The project, experienced as an immersive 360° VR video, reconstructs Pittsburgh from the open-source Aurora Multi-Sensor point-cloud Dataset. The work places the viewer inside a fragmented digital city, where, through embodied navigation, visibility is partial and spatial continuity is deliberately disrupted.

As the car (the viewer) attempts to recollect the post-industrial landscape of Pittsburgh, the sample training model it is able to access renders its limited memory full of fissures. Rather than arriving at any one place, a journey through this model’s simulation acquaints viewers with the machine’s method of perception and poses for them a question of identifying / disidentifying with the ways the AI forms knowledge and holds memories of the world. By emphasizing occlusion, compression, and absence, the work ultimately questions what is lost when cities are experienced as stitched datasets rather than lived environments.

2023

What’s My Method? is an interactive educational game developed with SolitonZ Games that reimagines contraceptive education as a playful, accessible experience. Designed for tablet use in healthcare settings——specifically deployed on tablets in partnership with the Barbados Family Planning Association——the game introduces users to different contraceptive methods through short scenarios, animations, and decision-based interactions.

As Creative Lead, I shaped the project through interaction design and visual language. My role focused on translating complex and sensitive health information into intuitive, non-stigmatizing gameplay——using humor, clear iconography, and narrative scenarios to support learning through exploration rather than instruction.

2022

Dollhouse is a “temper tantrum simulator” that exaggerates emotional expression through reactive gameplay. The game is set inside a digital replica of the dollhouse in my childhood bedroom, with the user scaled down to emphasize confinement and lack of control. Progression requires the user to interact with toy objects in the space, forcing engagement rather than offering choice.

The project draws from early experiences of emotional excess and explores how such behavior is socially critiqued along gendered lines. While anger or intensity in boys is often reframed as confidence, similar expressions in girls are too frequently dismissed as irrational or “bratty.” By placing the player in a constrained, infantilized environment, the game recreates feelings of powerlessness in response to emotinal duress.

2022

Shadow Extractor was part of a large-scale immersive event combining interactive visuals, live music, and spatial sound. The projection-based installation operated in which participants walk across a white floor beneath a concealed overhead camera. The camera captures the space from above and processes the visual input into a high-contrast threshold map of the floor and the participants’ silhouettes. This threshold map is then used to drive the projected visuals in real time.

The project explores shadows as both a trace of the body and how our outlines can become blurred when multiple individual shadows amalgamate.

Effervescent Shadow Bazaar @ WQED Studios (Pittsburgh, PA) 2022

This project was made possible with support from the Frank-Ratchye Further Fund (FRFF) 2022.

2022

I developed an obsession with graphic novels and comics from the moment I learned to read. With full access to my father’s substantial (and mostly French) collection, I spent countless afternoons leafing through spreads——analyzing each frame and grappling with storylines that were perhaps a bit mature for my age at the time. I was particularly drawn to the way women were represented or rather, as I would quickly learn once entering my teens, the way women are completely misrepresented within the world of comic books. 

By then, I understood that comic culture——dominated by both male creators and audiences, and propped up by the uncredited labor of women illustrators and writers——becomes an echo chamber that amplifies sexist visual tropes. With its most notorious being the hyper-sexualized, and anatomically impossible poses female characters are routinely drawn in. And, as if trained contortionists, these characters strike twists that almost always deliberately showcase their breasts, buttocks, and faces.

A Little Too Flexible confronts the absurdity and flips the visual logic on its head. Using a Kinect depth camera to capture my own body in real time, I force myself into those absurd, bone-breaking “superheroine” postures. The software struggles to resolve my joints——resulting in a glitchy rig and intentionally messy animation. I ultimately want to highlight the fundamental anatomical absurdity of these poses and moreover expecting any body——print, digital, or flesh——to conform.

software → TouchDesigner + Kinect Studio

hardware → Kinect V1

captured → Magda Gourinchas

2022

Dollhouse is a “temper tantrum simulator” that exaggerates emotional expression through reactive gameplay. The game is set inside a digital replica of the dollhouse in my childhood bedroom, with the user scaled down to emphasize confinement and lack of control. Progression requires the user to interact with toy objects in the space, forcing engagement rather than offering choice.

The project draws from early experiences of emotional excess and explores how such behavior is socially critiqued along gendered lines. While anger or intensity in boys is often reframed as confidence, similar expressions in girls are too frequently dismissed as irrational or “bratty.” By placing the player in a constrained, infantilized environment, the game recreates feelings of powerlessness in response to emotinal duress.

software → Blender + Unreal Engine 4

2022

Motherly Tendencies is an interactive game developed in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The project examines motherhood not only as a personal identity, but as a condition that may be socially and legally imposed. Drawing from online forums and social media discourse, the work investigates how mothers are critiqued, categorized, and constrained through language.

Set within a surreal domestic environment, the game presents four coexisting maternal archetypes—the mother bee, the workaholic, the drunk, and the absent mother—each occupying the same home. By forcing these contradictory identities to exist simultaneously, the project highlights the impossibility of meeting societal expectations placed on mothers, particularly in a climate where reproductive choice is increasingly restricted.

The project received the Spring 2023 Samuel Rosenberg Award at Carnegie Mellon University.

software → Unity

2019

I Miss Home documents an interaction with a compact, portable, tactile sculpture designed to evoke the idea of home while functioning as a stress-relief device. The work centers on the act of engaging with the object rather than the object as a standalone artifact.

I sewed a small three-dimensional house—four walls and a slanted roof—out of soft plastic and embedded it with an Arduino, flexible tubing, and miniature air valves. When powered, it slowly inhales and exhales, mimicking the rhythm of breath.

Created during a period of homesickness, the piece reframes attachment to place through a repetitive, embodied gesture: holding, watching, and breathing alongside the form. Meaning accumulates through the durational interaction, positioning the experience itself as the core of the work.

plastic film, sewing thread, latex glue

hardware → arduino (C++), valves, air compressor

captured → Magda Gourinchas