Daniel Phelps
Art & Design
Archives
OFF THE WALL
Co-created by Gregory Zinman and Micah Stansell. I designed the system that runs this show as the project’s CTO. Located above the Beltline and North Street Bridge. The LARGEST outdoor projection in the Southeast has come to Atlanta.
PRANA
https://danielphelps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Phelps_Prana_Reverb_PreViz_Full.m4v The natural world versus the urban environment. Over the past several hundred years, urban planning has reclaimed land once attuned to nature. Some instances of urbanization have tried to incorporate and respect the natural landscape, attempting to be an addendum to our world. Other designs had no intention to integrate open space, organic matter,…
Digital Pinball; A Design Intervention
Presentation at The University of Mary Washington. Fredericksburg Virginia, June 7th, 2023. This presentation will focus on the online communities supporting the pinball arts, from vintage classic restoration, and user experience preservation, to custom Visual Pinball (vPin) cabinet making. These online communities are a fast-growing subculture of the pinball world. User-generated content drives playfield design,…
Anamorphic Dualities
Created By Daniel Phelps, this piece of digital art that utilizes an inverted LED screen mounted under a bridge that connects two buildings. This “Media Bridge” is located on the Georgia Tech campus, connecting Clough and Crossland towers. This anamorphic piece will eventually incorporate user tracking to give audiences a “holographic” effect, converting the structure’s…
The Future AmericanRetrospective (2019)
https://youtu.be/Vb4BvY02N88 My work as an Integrated Media Artist has allowed me to create and contribute to a wide variety of technology research initiatives and narratives. From robotics to linear documentary storytelling, my work always strives to incorporate emerging technology and apply it to emerging interdisciplinary fields. The Future American Retrospective: A Telerobotic VR Experience is…
Transcendence, AR Viewports in Architecture
AR Pavilion Starts around 1:50 ABSTRACT With the advent and integration of modern technologies via current smartphone designs, augmented reality devices and experiences are now commonplace. Artists, corporations, and academia have been using smartphone experiences to capitalize on the affordances that mobile AR has to offer. From selling home-goods to tabletop gaming, these types of…
Wonderglove, Physical Augmented Intermediate Layer
PDF Download Design Statement: To develop an intermediate layer between invisible forces in our world and connect it with our senses. Specifically, EM fields and our sense of touch. Believing that all things are connected, the physical, metaphysical, conscious and unconscious. Take the magnetosphere. It envelops the planet and protects us from radiation, solar flares…
AR Layers & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PDF Download In my exploration, I have defined a class of XR that embodies the passive integration of our digital and physical worlds. Finding examples and building them myself, an Augmented Intermediate Layer (AIL) is defined as an unobtrusive overlay of digital information modifying our physical world. The term, Augmented Intermediate Layer, has its genesis…
What is an Augmented Intermediate Layer, or AIL?
Cross Post to Video Version As the physical and digital worlds begin to intervene in each of their respective realms, many are looking to mixed realities to parse information streams emanating from our ethereal and metaphysical lives. Formerly coined as mixed reality in 1994 [1], and what now some would, unfortunately, call the Metaverse™ [2];…
The Domino Effect (Documentary)
DANIEL PHELPS Co-Director Director of Photography Editor & Compositor MEGAN SPERRY Producer / Co-Director BRIAN PAUL Writer / Researcher For detailed information, you can find us at www.thedominoeffectmovie.com/ The Domino Effect is a feature-length documentary film that explores the process of real estate development in New York City anddigs deep to uncover the complex networks…
