Creative Technology Field Notes

Overview Jonah Brucker-Cohen has spent over two decades turning familiar systems into subversive art. His method: take something everyone uses (a mailing list, a crosswalk button, a login screen) and break it in a way that makes you laugh, then think. Jonah walks through several recent projects that use public data to expose invisible urban realities, such as a crosswalk timer that delays your cro...

Manuel Palenque shares how he got his start building projection mapping systems when the technology was brand new, what it’s like to design content for dome projections, and why the technical constraints of light and contrast matter more than most people realize. He talks about how AI tools like GitHub Copilot have expanded his ability to work across platforms like Unity, Unreal Engine, and web-ba...

Josh Corn traces his path from architecture and theater consulting into experience design, and how that background shapes the way he builds physical, interactive systems. He explains why he tends to describe himself as an “experience designer,” and how he thinks about technology as a means to shape behavior, attention, and feeling rather than as a deliverable by itself. We focus on the practical s...

Aishwarya Balagopal traces her path from architecture into creative technology, starting with an early fascination for how people move through (and feel inside) spaces. After growing up in Mumbai and later studying façade design at the University of Southern California, she talks about how “human factors” in the built environment—scale, light, material, and perception—became the foundation for how...

Pete Doherty unpacks the behind-the-scenes work that enables experiential projects to run. Pete frames creative technology as experience-making : building the kind of systems that power museum installs, gallery pieces, location-based entertainment, and other tech-enabled environments where the audience is meant to feel something. From there, Pete shares a high-stakes red-carpet build with Fake Lov...