Simon Alexander-Adams

On year eight of daily sketches created in TouchDesigner, posted on Instagram as Polyhop.

Audiovisual piece in which every visual element is synced to a layer of the music. Made for the outdoor LED screen at Expo Pavilion in Sunderland, UK, curated by Debra Stewardson.

Audiovisual piece that drives a physarum simulation with sound. Made for the outdoor LED screen at Expo Pavilion in Sunderland, UK, curated by Debra Stewardson.

Piano-driven audiovisual system created for WINTERCIRCUS Ghent, shown from October 2024 to January 2025. A self-playing grand piano drove the visuals during live performances and played its own generative music between them.

Interactive immersive installation created for Cinema Mystica (Budapest) as part of MikroMakro: As Above So Below, built around a custom Physarum slime mold simulation that responds to visitors and moves with the music.

Interactive visualization to accompany essays on Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ansible by Theo Downes-Le Guin and Claire Isabel Webb. Commissioned through Berggruen Institute and Public/Official.

Immersive, interactive audiovisual installation at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik. I built the real-time scenes in TouchDesigner as part of ARTECHOUSE Studio, working directly with Icelandic composer Högni Egilsson.

Immersive exhibition that follows a neuron from birth to death, created as part of ARTECHOUSE Studio with the Society for Neuroscience. I designed and developed the birth scene. Shown at ARTECHOUSE DC and NYC.

Music video created for the art-rock band saajtak. Created using TouchDesigner, Microsoft Kinect and the Tachyons+ Vortex Decoder (circuit bent analog video console.)

Light show programmed across the LED facades of 40 skyscrapers in Shenzhen’s Futian District. Awarded Third Prize in the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2019 Light Show Competition.

With a repertoire that ranges from complex epic forms to short frenetic noise pieces, saajtak creates sonic environments that defy genre and the traditional roles of each instrument.

In May 2019 my work was featured in Times Square as part of META-morphosis: a new media curation by Decode Experiential created for the One Times Square building.

Interactive projections designed for Lucid Dream Interactive Pods presented at the HP Coachella tent by ARTECHOUSE

Animation for Heavy Color’s Hidden Kingdom.

Silhouettes I-IV is an interactive installation that allows viewers to directly engage with four visual simulations through their movement and presence in the space.

Pisces Pool is an interactive installation that was presented at Electric Forest 2017

Interactive multimedia installation, premiered at the 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival.