Samuel Cormier

I created and programmed a synchronized light installation using Arduino/C++/Cinder that accompanied Wu Tsang's "Mishima In Mexico"​ at the Michael Benevento Gallery in Los Angeles.

"At Michael Benevento [Gallery], the video is projected in a small white room whose ceiling lights are programmed to shift among blue, pink, yellow and crimson. The colors change to underscore points in the melodramatic narrative, while adding a witty nightclub ambience to a standard white-cube gallery… Show more

I created and programmed a synchronized light installation using Arduino/C++/Cinder that accompanied Wu Tsang's "Mishima In Mexico"​ at the Michael Benevento Gallery in Los Angeles.

"At Michael Benevento [Gallery], the video is projected in a small white room whose ceiling lights are programmed to shift among blue, pink, yellow and crimson. The colors change to underscore points in the melodramatic narrative, while adding a witty nightclub ambience to a standard white-cube gallery. Tsang has a gift for stirring the pot."​ - Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Art Critic, 2013

"The programmed, color-changing LED lights placed beside the video evoke a club atmosphere and create a chameleonic space, further inscribing a sense of performativity into the gallery itself." - ROBIN NEWMAN, Art Agenda, 2013 Show less

Fruit Machine is a simple javascript based game show style app I developed for Xavier Cha that was shown at the Philadelphia ICA.

Fruit Machine 2 uses Cinema4D graphics, JS/HTML5/EaselJS sprite animations and was shown at the New Museum in NYC.

Both of these were made to be used as signaling pieces for a game show style live performance.

http://xaviercha.com/
http://xaviercha.com/FruitMachine2/ <​- press space bar to cycle through stages of performance… Show more

Fruit Machine is a simple javascript based game show style app I developed for Xavier Cha that was shown at the Philadelphia ICA.

Fruit Machine 2 uses Cinema4D graphics, JS/HTML5/EaselJS sprite animations and was shown at the New Museum in NYC.

Both of these were made to be used as signaling pieces for a game show style live performance.

http://xaviercha.com/
http://xaviercha.com/FruitMachine2/ <​- press space bar to cycle through stages of performance signals
http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/xavier-cha-fruit-machine-2 Show less