Thomas Kearns | Visual CV

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While you look at this, I am probably ferverishly

writing code, rigging a model in 3dsmax, or tuning thephototransistor circuit for the mixed reality game I amdeveloping for the capstone project for my MastersDegree in Game Programming from DePaul University


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it plays something like this...


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to know more about where the gameplay ideascome from, and how it is supposed to play out

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At this point the hardware and software

functionality of the mesh networkbased laser units have been fullyprototyped and the housings designed.

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the digital game systems are coming together, with a functional spatialgenerator, core qbert mechanic, and a developing editing pipeline

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before the 2010/2011 school year began, Iworked on an independent game with industryprofessionals, faculty and students from DePaul


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I worked in many roles, including gameplay design and concept art, ...


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... but focused the majority of my eort programming coresystems such as camera control and ship ight mechanics

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before DePaul, my work investigated interactivity,play and games in projects completed with mypartners in a design collaborative known as sand_box


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a precursor, cross reality game, was conceived between a race to contain swarmsof intelligent balloons inside an operable house and a climbing video game setinside an hour glass lled with household objects


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sand_box coalescedaround an earlyinstallation project atan abandonded home inrural New Hampshire

To put the tired buildingback into play, weperformed a series ofcutting, hinging andrestructuring operationsto allow its walls topivot, turning itinside-out


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we then coated the existing paintedsurfaces with phosphorescent paintto charge outside-in the sun, for

nightime illumination indoors


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years later,the salvagedwalls becameinput devicesin a galleryinstallation in

Brooklyn


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one wallcontrolleda customlightingsystem

the othercontrolledthe playbackof videoprojection


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if the walls aligned, eectively cutting the space in half, the system atlined andminutes later automatically debrillated, surging to life after swapping functionalitywhile in limbo; this kept the space and its occupants in a constant state of play


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for a collection of video based oralhistories, sand_box designed and builtan interactive environment intended toexpress the stratifcation of time and history.100 sheets of cnc milled plywood, customelectronics + software, provide museumgoers access to the curated media


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on each end, a navigable display panelprovides access to the collective queue


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it kept going, and going


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prior to forming sand_box, I was anassociate at MESH architectures in New York


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at MESH, I managed high-end residential...


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+ up-scale commercial architecture projects, and ...


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this professional work enabled and supported the

past 8 years of teaching design and digital mediain the highly rated College of Architecture at theIllinois Institute of Technology

courses which include:

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the $120k house project

an advanced design studiofocused on the developmentof strategies for implementing

aordable yet progressivehousing solutions for atransformed market

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collab studio

a collaborative design studiousing serious gaming andSecond Life for the simulation

of architectural projects with apseudo design-build approach

advanced self directed


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advanced self directedstudio projects

including the prototyping ofhand held urban mapping and

tness gaming systems


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networked technologies


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interactive ash based presentatio

networked technologies

a history theory survey innew technologies changingour world and training in the

creation of new media usingactionscript and ash

digital media


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digital media

introductory and advancedcourses in the use of 3dmodeling, rendering and

animation, 2d raster andvector graphics, and generalvisual acuity in all media

service beyond coursework


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service beyond coursework

and of course I couldntescape the responsiblity ofdesigning websites for the

colleges marketing initiatives

At present I am teaching core


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At present I am teaching coredesign studios for 3rd yearundergraduates, introductoryand advanced digital mediacourses and advising Masters

and PhD thesis projects

see syllabi and other examples

here


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