Ray Weitzenberg

A portfolio site collecting samplings from the array of work I've done over the years.
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Dialogues on Freedom focuses on creating an engaging, interactive exploration of important historical figures' lives through an interactive timeline with integrated narrative elements and a contextual conversation interface. The first subject is Malcolm X.

This is from the onboarding experience with the narrator introducing the user to the app.

My home on the web, NYSee is a lot of things and those things are ever evolving.//nysee.nyc//nysee.nyc/radar

Physical installation allowing for the discovery of art and artists

One interacts with Monolyth via gesture detected by a Leap Motion sensor. A person encountering the piece is able to browse through the gallery by waving her hand past the sensor.

Cybotrance is a magic mirror I've setup in the entryway of my apartment. Running on a Raspberry Pi, this iteration presents the current and upcoming local weather, as well as cycling through the lines of Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

I'll be reintigrating realtime information about approaching busses on the line I'm riding most often.

Risograph prints made in the summer of 2024 at RisoLAB.
//nysee.nyc/no-ordinary-duotone

Whirligrid is a generative art piece—not gen ai—made using p5.js.

The app takes as input a character from Zuzanna Licko's font, Whirligig, as well as a pre-defined color palette. It then generates the composition by randomly applying colors and opacities to the character dupicated a specified number of times and laid out on a grid.

Once generated, I exported vector images from the p5.js canvas and took them into Illustrator to further manipulate color via the advanced recoloring option (highly recommended, and super fun).

This is a series of those finished stills, animated via a JS module I quickly wrote.

Scopus Ex Machina is a project that I worked on at RisoLAB. It is focused on interrogating the surveillance proliferating in our society. Part of the project has involved the construction of a facial recognition system running in my apt window.

This is the project presentation that I gave to the Zines and Small Publishing class at RisoLAB.

//nysee.nyc/scopus-ex-presentation

Thirdeyes assists music journalists in writing artist bios. Powered behind the scenes by an orchestration of multiple LLMs, writers can step through and develop the core elements of a bio. Further assiting the writers, information is contextually generated as they interact with the app to inform upon the artist's life and work.