Creative Technologist – Projection Mapping & TouchDesigner

I’m seeking a creative technologist experience in TouchDesigner and Projection mapping to co-create Muon : Bloom.

Muon : Bloom is a partially generative projection-mapping and music installation, premiering at Blink Cincinnati this October (8-11 Oct); the largest public art event in the US, drawing 2 million visitors.

The piece is driven by live data from three cosmic-ray detectors. When a muon (a subatomic particle from deep space) passes through a detector, a flash in the scintillator is converted to voltage, then MIDI, triggering and shaping visuals and score in real time. Higher-energy particles create bigger responses.
Shows run ~20 mins with voiceover and projected text, bookended by calmer generative states, projected onto a 19.25m 10.83m facade.
Each detector sits on a covered truss tower (2 x 3m, 1 x 6m).

I’m a London-based composer and installation artist working at the intersection of particle physics and new media art, with several award-winning live-data installations (Particle Shrine, Visitor). The core system exists; this role develops a new visual language on top of it, not from scratch.

Fee: £1,900 plus return flights, transfers, six nights’ central Cincinnati hotel (own room) and ESTA if needed. (Full fee breakdown before interview). Named credit.

Payment: 25% on signing, 50% on a working system by 14 Sept, 25% by 31 Oct.

– Working hours: live days (8 – 11th Oct) 6pm – 11.30pm
– Working hours: install (7th Oct) 3pm – 11pm
– Anticipated development hours spread through late August and September (remote and/or person): 60 hours

I’m honest that the fee sits below what work this skilled deserves – but the piece will be professionally documented at an highly respected event in the this field, and I’m looking for a long-term visual collaborator for future iterations, not a one-off.

Full brief, technical spec, visual references and development videos available.

Applications reviewed on a rolling basis, early application encouraged.