Nick Fox-Gieg

https://orbital-line-1.glitch.me

A bike ride through Toronto’s waterfront was filmed with a 360 camera, then depth maps were extracted from the footage and transformed into a sequence of brushstrokes in 3D space by a machine learning system.

Nick Fox-Gieg
Nick Fox-Gieg (https://fox-gieg.com/) is a researcher, animator, and developer in Toronto. Most recently, he’s been working on XR projects for the Verizon 5G EdTech Challenge, NYT T Brand Studio, the University of Waterloo, Google Creative Lab, and Framestore. His awards include a 2017 Engadget Alternate Realities grant, Eyebeam and Fulbright Fellowships, and the jury prize for Best Animated Short at SXSW 2010; his work has also been shown at the Ottawa, Rotterdam, and TIFF film festivals, at the Centre Pompidou, and on CBC TV. Fox-Gieg holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.


For inquiries regarding this initiative, please contact:

Mark-David Hosale, Ph.D.  – mdhosale@yorku.ca
Associate Professor and Chair, Computational Arts
Digital Media Program
School of Art, Media, Performance and Design
York University, Toronto

4700 Keele Street .:. 228 Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts .:. Toronto ON, M3J 1P3 Canada
http://computationalarts.ampd.yorku.ca/