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Kyle McDonald is an artist working with code. He crafts interactive installations, sneaky interventions, playful websites, workshops, and toolkits for other artists working with code. https://kylemcdonald.net







Created by Lauren Lee McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Unlearning Language is an interactive installation and performance that uses machine learning to provoke the participants to find new understandings of language, undetectable to algorithms.
19/12/2022Created by a Golan Levin, David Newbury, and Kyle McDonald, with the assistance of Golan’s students at CMU, Terrapattern is a visual search tool for satellite imagery that provides journalists, citizen scientists, and other researchers with the ability to quickly scan large geographical regions for specific visual features.
25/05/2016Taking place at the Scopitone Festival in Nantes / France on the 15th september 2015 (8:15 pm) is the latest iteration of CAN initiated Transcranial, an ambitious, collaborative performance project by Klaus Obermaier, Kyle McDonald and Daito Manabe
10/09/2015Created by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, pplkpr is an app that tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social life accordingly.
20/01/2015The Augmented Hand Series is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors’ hands.
06/01/2015Earlier this year, Resonate festival was the host to Transcranial, a CAN initiated project bringing Klaus Obermaier, Daito Manabe and Kyle McDonald to Belgrade for two weeks to work on a new performance piece, creating a bridge between three festivals in Europe.
05/11/2014Created by Kyle McDonald, “Sharing Faces” uses a megapixel surveillance camera and custom software to match the face locations of the persons looking at the screen. As the person moves, new images are pulled from the database matching the new location and create a mirror-like image of yourself using the images of others.
27/08/2014Light Leaks is a light installation by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan comprised of fifty mirror balls projecting controlled light in the room.
24/05/2013ExR3 is an a anamorphic analogue interactive installation that exists coherently in a fractured, mirrored version of a reflected room visible from four points within the real space.
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23/02/2012It all kicked off about 2 months ago when Kyle McDonald posted ‘FaceOSC’, a tool for prototyping face-based interaction. The oF wrapper Kyle created is built on non-commercial open source FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih. Kyle included an example oF app with the ofxFaceTracker addon for openFrameworks which can be downloaded here.
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17/01/2010Kyle McDonald has just posted on oF forums a video of an alternative way of rendering point clouds, using DOF to help give a more photographic feel and actually use the 3D information in 2D renders.
29/11/2009Created by Lauren Lee McCarthy & Kyle McDonald, Unlearning Language is an interactive installation and performance that uses machine learning to provoke the participants to find new understandings of language, undetectable to algorithms.
Tags: ai / custom software / GPT-3 / installation / interactive installation / language / machine learning / nodejs / performance / touchdesigner / ycam
Created by a Golan Levin, David Newbury, and Kyle McDonald, with the assistance of Golan’s students at CMU, Terrapattern is a visual search tool for satellite imagery that provides journalists, citizen scientists, and other researchers with the ability to quickly scan large geographical regions for specific visual features.
Tags: Aman Tiwari / CMU / code / David Newbury / Golan Levin / Irene Alvarado / Kyle McDonald / machine learning / Manzil Zaheer / mapping / neural networks / p5js / Processing
Taking place at the Scopitone Festival in Nantes / France on the 15th september 2015 (8:15 pm) is the latest iteration of CAN initiated Transcranial, an ambitious, collaborative performance project by Klaus Obermaier, Kyle McDonald and Daito Manabe
Tags: canlabs / Daito Manabe / Klaus Obermaier / Kyle McDonald / transcranial
Created by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, pplkpr is an app that tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social life accordingly.
Tags: AppStore / data / download / free / heart rate / ios / Kyle McDonald / Lauren McCarthy / monitoring / provocation / speculation / wearables
The Augmented Hand Series is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors’ hands.
Tags: Chris Sugrue / cinekid / featured / Golan Levin / hands / installation / Kyle McDonald / leap / leap motion / opencv / openFrameworks / play / process / uncanny
Earlier this year, Resonate festival was the host to Transcranial, a CAN initiated project bringing Klaus Obermaier, Daito Manabe and Kyle McDonald to Belgrade for two weeks to work on a new performance piece, creating a bridge between three festivals in Europe.
Tags: can_labs / Daito Manabe / Events / face substitution / featured / kikk festival / Klaus Obermaier / Kyle McDonald / MaxMSP / openFrameworks / performance / project / resonate / resonate festival / resonate2014 / software / STRP Biennale / theatre / transcranial
Created by Kyle McDonald, “Sharing Faces” uses a megapixel surveillance camera and custom software to match the face locations of the persons looking at the screen. As the person moves, new images are pulled from the database matching the new location and create a mirror-like image of yourself using the images of others.
Tags: APAP / camera / computer vision / data / debug / debug screen / face tracker / history / Inspiration / Kyle McDonald / location / mirror / network / node / place / process / Reference / ycam
Light Leaks is a light installation by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan comprised of fifty mirror balls projecting controlled light in the room.
Tags: CLICK Festival 2013 / Environment / Jonas Jongejan / Kyle McDonald / mapping / openFrameworks / projection / reflection / structured light
ExR3 is an a anamorphic analogue interactive installation that exists coherently in a fractured, mirrored version of a reflected room visible from four points within the real space.
Tags: design / Elliot Woods / Environment / generative / installation / Kyle McDonald / mirror / nodeforum / openFrameworks / projection / reflection / spatial
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It all kicked off about 2 months ago when Kyle McDonald posted ‘FaceOSC’, a tool for prototyping face-based interaction. The oF wrapper Kyle created is built on non-commercial open source FaceTracker code from Jason Saragih. Kyle included an example oF app with the ofxFaceTracker addon for openFrameworks which can be downloaded here.
Tags: addon / Arturo Castro / image / Kyle McDonald / library / mesh / openFrameworks / tracking
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Kyle McDonald has just posted on oF forums a video of an alternative way of rendering point clouds, using DOF to help give a more photographic feel and actually use the 3D information in 2D renders.
Tags: 3d / animation / dof / Inspiration / openFrameworks / photography / video