Hi, I'm Jason! I'm a creative technologist and UI developer living in Minneapolis, MN. Professionally I mainly focus on two areas: (1) building interactive web experiences and (2) helping artists and museums bring their ideas to life using tools like digital fabrication and creative coding.
Personally I am deeply interested in the dynamic systems and processes in nature that create the beautiful forms and patterns all around us. Using tools like computational design, simulation, digital fabrication, and electronics, I love to explore these fundamental mechanisms and share what I learn with others.
Outside of work I can often be found in a community ceramics studio working on a sculpture, tending to my houseplants and planted nanotank collection, volunteering with local citizen science groups, or enjoying the endless parks, trails, and rivers of Minnesota by biking, fly fishing, and rockhounding.
Here are a few of my favorite projects and collaborations:
- Teaching workshops on circuit bending and building DIY synthesizers to young adults through SOUNDRY, an educational outreach component of the Omaha Under the Radar Festival.
- Collaborating with and providing creative technology guidance and support to nationally- and internationally-recognized fine artists through the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE. Collaborators included Emilie Baltz, Di Mainstone, and others.
- Designing and teaching a course called "How to Build Almost Anything" at Nebraska's first and only FabLab.
- Presenting my work at Maker Faire: Kansas City and the Open Hardware Summit hosted at MIT.
- Developing open-source assistive technology projects such as openSip+Puff, Eyewriter 2.1 and lessons on using the MaKey MaKey for AT.
- Collaborating with a glass artist to explore applications of 3D printing with hand-blown glass.
- Making 3D-printed molds and experimenting with DIY casting media.
- Designing and teaching the University of Nebraska at Kearney's first ever semester-long course about creative coding and physical computing to a group of fellow undergraduate students, culminating in a fun, well-attended public exhibition of student projects.
- Building a pretty large and very successful aquaponics system for under $300.