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last update Aug. 24, 2007

Evan Raskob is an video, sound, & interactive artist, VJ, visual performance artist, and multimedia technology consultant working out of New York City (USA) and London (UK). Originally trained as an industrial engineer, his work reflects a scientific curiosity with natural phenomena and processes, especially those relating to visual and audiological perception. Evan received a Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunication Program at New York University in 2004.

Currently, Evan performs visuals as pixelpusher at various venues, lectures as part of the staff of Coventry University's School of Art and Design, teaches workshops in computer-based interactive art at University College of the Creative Arts Farnham campus, assists the artist Robert Whitman on new works, and recently finished a full-room video performance system with the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM), at 750 3rd Ave. in New York City.

performance ::

These days I am working on various projects and performing as pixelpusher.

recent showings of my work ::

Nov. 4-11, 2006 :: (Information and directions here) -- Openlab 3 exhibition -- visuals performance and NYLONCityblob projected large


Sept. 27 2006 :: London, UK :: Dorkbot London -- Mashing Up Cities and Interactive Art, a talk about my experiences with interactive art (YOTM) and attempt to explain my new project, NYLONCitiblob: [image]

May 9-20 2006 :: New York, USA :: Sonic Channels -- TrafficTimeblotcher (audio only re-working)

March 6 2006 :: Australia :: CAMERA OBSCURA -- TrafficTimeblotcher (audio+video)

July 20-Oct 6 2005 :: Cleveland, OH :: Progressive Corporation Art Collection -- Year Of The Motorcycle (see "other works" below)

May 4, 2005 :: New York, USA :: DorkBot NYC -- SurroundScapes (interactive environments)

April 1-3, 2005 :: New York, USA :: Compact/Impact Night: Games -- SnowScape interactive environment

video ::

More at pixelpusher.flkr.com

NYLONCityBlob - interactive video installation based on images of cities I've been to

projection on paper lanterns ::    the lantern lover

blended images of new york city :: naturenoiz

re-fractured algorhythmic video (train ride) :: train82-bluh-slice

re-re-fractured algorhythmic video (train ride) :: train82-bluh-slice2

re-re-fractured algorhythmic video (nyc yakuza) :: yakuza-prob-bluh-bluh2

re-re-re-fractured algorhythmic video (nyc yakuza) :: yakuza-prob-bluh-bluh3

works with other artists ::

Robert Whitman's Sun (Outdoors), 2007 (video of outdoor installation)
Manipulated images of the sun from NASA, projected large onto the side of Dia's building in downtown New York City, changing constantly by means of software.

With artist Tina Gonsalves, 2007
Software and interactive design for feel_perspire320_240.mov (Quicktime movie) - A psychological installation reacting to a person's galvanic skin response (a measure of stress)

Software assistance for Feel_Insula: An interactive Installation about Stillness, Emotions and Hypnosis

YOTM: Year Of The Motorcycle, 2005
Interactive video installation at the Progressive Insurance headquarters in Mayfair, Ohio (USA). IT was an honor to present a work in a building filled with so much amazing art.



New Interfaces for Musical Expression Documentary, 2004
I shot a documentary on electronic musical instrument builders working/performing in New York City a few years ago. I am honored that it has been shown as part of the NIME course at ITP for the past few semesters, and has been purchased world-wide (Eastern/Western Europe, China, United States, Israel).

ACCESS, 2003-2004
I worked on the Access Project with Marie Sester, that let you "track anonymous individuals in public places, by pursuing them with a robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system." The videos of it in action are well worth a look, and it is still touring around at various museums.

MissSynthesis, 2003-2005
For awhile I used to perform as MissSynthesis (but not in drag)

projects/hacks::

lfo.jsui JavaScript programming API for Max/MSP/Jitter
A simple example and API for building GUIs that repond to mouse events in Max/MSP/Jitter's jsui object. More examples to come soon, check back in early 2007.

homemade video projector
Photo set of hacking a car LCD screen, a 1920's era photograph projector, and a few handfulls of 20,000MCD white LEDs into a powerful, working NTSC/PAL digital projector.

PHP/MYSQL Apartment search tool
A web-based database tool for keeping track of apartments ("flats" if you're in the UK) that you've looked at. Old but still possibly useful code for building a simple database in PHP/MySQL, and Open Source to boot.

My old ITP (Interactive Telecommunication Program, NYU) website, 2003-2004
I received a Master's from ITP at New York University. My website has an interesting collection of projects, from my Master's Thesis to my experimental audio-visual instruments.