Hello, my name is Mattt.
← That's me on the left.
I'm an undergraduate student of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Art at Carnegie Mellon University.
Across various points in my life, I've assumed many different titles, but most of my work these days is somewhere along the lines of web development, programming, art, and design.
This summer, I'm proud to be working at Yahoo! as a YDN Evangelist in Sunnyvale, CA.
In the meantime, feel free to check out my my resumé and talk to me if you'd interested in having me work for you when I'm available for new projects.
This is what I've been up to over the last few months. Click on the images to your right → to learn more.
Games are now generally acknowledged as culturally significant, comparable with film or television in their economic strength if not their public mindshare. But can they be art?
The School of Art was looking to update the code under the hood of their existing website. Porting the content and design of the previous site, I rewrote their CMS with Rails and fixed up their old, broken markup into standards-based CSS and HTML.
I host a radio show on Mondays from 4 to 5.5 on 88.3 WRCT Pittsburgh.
Each week features a split set of two different musical genres, like pedantic ambient post-rock, acid jazz, or low-fi indie instrumental. Yeah, good stuff.
Listen online on WRCT's live webstream
(Photo Credit: Gonzale)
Atlas is a collection of essays and argument maps—hence, “Atlas”—that survey moral philosophy in the modern period (c. 1550-1850). This is a culmination of a class project for Professor Andy Norman’s course at Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2007.
rfidge provides a glimpse into the dual nature of future RFID ubiquity. On one hand, rfidge knows what's inside of it at all times, and provides a way of visualizing that information in a totally new way. This generative techno music based on the contents of rfidge illustrates the flip side of this coin in how potentially annoying it can become.
Portfolio and Blog for the multimedia artists Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver. Their collaborative works includes single-channel videos, video installation, objects, photographs and live video performances.
The Electronic Time-Based Art (ETB) area in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon explores emerging and new forms of art that require temporal or technological engagement to experience them. Classes in the ETB area incorporate learning the technical skills for production along with historical and theoretical underpinnings of the practice.
flolcatr is a site that generatively creates lolcats using über-complicated algorithms and a crack team of a few dozen kindergarteners.
Lorem Ipscream is a parlor of tasty generative information. Much more than plain-old Vanilla Loripsum text, Lorem Ipscream will delight you with flavors from Emo song lyrics to completely synthesized identities.
Nephila is an open source web framework that takes the effort out of showing off and managing your digital media and source code. Educators like it because it gives them the flexibility to teach their courses the way they want to. Artists like it because it finally solves that problem of figuring out how to maintain their portfolio and share their work with the world.
Soundbytes is Carnegie Mellon University's premiere co-ed a cappella group. I've been singing with them as a bass and a soloist for a few years now.
Incidentally, I also made their website, which I guess is to be expected...
A circuit-bending art piece with an array of 4 singing animatronic fish.
Featured in Flux No. 9, an art show in April of 2007.
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