Bio

Kyle is an interactive media artist, web developer, and filmmaker from Salt Lake City, Utah. His academic interests focus on the interplay between humans, their environment, and technology. In addition to his academic studies at New York University Abu Dhabi, Kyle has spent the last two years working as an assistant and collaborator with Professor Aaron Sherwood on several large interactive Art Installations such as Micro and the Wooden Mandala.Previously, Kyle worked as a lead designer and web developer at the innovative financial technology startup Velvet.Working with the ReactJS framework, Kyle integrated a content management system and other backend elements with a seamless frontend design. Through his various working and educational experiences, Kyle has developed a depth of skills in a variety of coding languages and standards. Kyle’s other recent projects include working with professional researchers at the NYUAD Kinetics Lab to code and drive a Boston Dynamics robot dog for an interactive performance, and constructing musical robots for NYUAD’s Electrofest concert with Professor Michael Shiloh and the Institute for Critical Robotics. In 2022, Kyle debuted his interactive instillation, "Everybody is an Artist" at the Louvre Abu Dhabi University Take Over the Museum event. The piece was invited back to the museum in 2023. Kyle has also had extensive experience in technical filmmaking, working as a teaching assistant for NYUAD’s cinematography course and performing a variety of roles from gaffer to director of photography on over a dozen film sets. Kyle’s interest in film is an outgrowth of his earlier work as a journalist where he won several state-level awards for both written and video media.

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CAD Scooter

For the final project for the class Computer Aided Design, our task was to disassemble a working scooter, measure every part, recreate them in Solidworks, and reassemble both the physical and digital parts. Additionally, we were tasked with making design improvements on our digital version (You wouldn’t download a scooter) Below are some of the […]

Sensors, Body, and Motion

The second Interactive Media Course I took at New York University Abu Dhabi was Sensors, Body, and Motion with my professor and mentor, Aaron Sherwood. Through this link, you can find the a class blog that details the many projects from that class. Interactive Media Blog During the course we used openFrameworks in order to make […]

Projects in Painting

In 2022, I took the class projects in painting with Professor Vikram Divecha. It was a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with my love of oil painting, which I had not taken serious time to pursue since completing my AP Art portfolio in 2018. I wrote a short artist statement for our final presentation to go […]

Projects in Photography

During my last semester at NYU, I had the privilege to take Projects in photography with professor Andreas Valentin. I will Post some of my photography here. The final class project, Shell, was a large collaborative Interactive Instillation using 8mm film photography, which deserves its own portfolio post. My main classic photography project for this […]