Copper Blue Media
by Sofia Paraskeva
Motion Graphics & Animation
Interactive Interface Design
Digital Graphics
Video Editing
Portfolio
Work samples
Services
Visual Design + Interactive Motion
Consulting
Technology
Interactive audio-visual Interfaces
Wearable Electronics
Wireless communication
Classes/Tutorials/Workshops
Mapping movement to Video & Sound with Kinect
Motion graphics / Broadcast design
Graphic Design
About
Sofia Paraskeva | Bio
Sofia Paraskeva is an artist who explores sound and visuals in the context of leading edge technology. Using tools such as MAX/MSP/Jitter she designs visual and aural narratives for interactive installations and performance. She is a concept creator, a visual effects designer and a natural video editor. Her work spans across interactive art, visual design, motion graphics, and experimental video and sound. She is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Master’s program at New York University. Her interactive installation Rainbow Resonance, a computer vision musical interface, has been presented at Queens Museum of Art, the Mind’s Eye program at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the New York Hall of Science, Harvestworks and Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Paraskeva has been teaching workshops and classes on her interactive art technology.
Sofia Paraskeva
Interactive Media Designer
TELL YOUR NARRATIVE WITH CREATIVE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
Engaging Participators
In the age of ubiquitous computing, natural user interfaces are deployed to enhance and expand the human experience in retail environments, education and art. Technology is used to create captivating, memorable user experiences in order to communicate a message. A simple on-site installation can produce an engaging play of sound and visuals instigated by the participator’s body movement.
Classes
Classes/Tutorials/Workshops
Mapping Movement to Video and Sound with Max/MSP and the Kinect
This workshop/class focuses on mapping movement to parameters of video and audio effects. Using 2D data from Max/MSP/ jitter and the cv.jit library and 3D data captured from the Kinect with Synapse, body movement is mapped to interactive video effects and sound. This class is for video and installation artists, musicians, dancers and others who are interested in creating video or audio effects using the movement of the body
Digital Graphics
Broadcast Design
Digital Effects and Compositing for Video
Dataflow Programming: Pure Data
Public Speaking
Talks/Presentations
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Multimodal Approaches to Learning Conference, 26-27 October, 2012
LISA (Leaders in Software and Art) Salon, January 8, 2014
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mind’s Eye Program, March 4, 2013
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mind’s Eye Program, June 4, 2012
Interactive Installations
Performance / Exhibitions
Rainbow Resonance
A computer vision interactive installation that generates visuals and the equivalent sound frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum according to the motion of the human body
- Queens Museum of Art, In Search of Something Special, Playground for All Children (Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Aug 23, Sep 20, Oct 11, 2015
- Queens Museum of Art, Autism Awareness Month, April 6, 2013
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mind’s Eye Program, March 4, 2013
- Lavelle School for the Blind, Bronx Lavell School for the Blind, March 12-14, 2013
- La Mama, NYC, CultureHub, Volumetric Society: Media[Circus], November 23-25, 2012
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Mind’s Eye Program, June 4, 2012
- Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Music Therapy Program Open House, June 28, 2012
- Queens Museum of Art, Autism Awareness Month, April 22, 2012
- Extreme Kids & Crew, Brooklyn, February 23, 2012
- ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, Nicosia, November 1 – 3, 2010
- MS Viewpoint Ltd, Nicosia, July 8 – 14, 2010
- Harvestworks, New York, June 14 – 17, 2010
- New York Public Library, Hamilton Fish Park, Op On Screen Festival, October 15, 2009
- New York Hall of Science, October 2008 and February – April 2009
The Sound and Touch of Ether’s Flux
Interactive algorithmic music interface generated spontaneously through motion
detected by a camera sensor and a wireless sensor glove controller, in collaboration with Joshua B. Mailman. Performances include:
- Volumetric Society: Media Circus, La Mama Experimental Theater Club, CultureHub, New York, November 24, 2012
- Mind and Invention: Creativity at the Intersection of Music and Computation, College of New Jersey, March 30, 2012
- Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body conference, University of London, April 19, 2012
- Music: Cognition, Technology, Society, Cornell University, May 11, 2012
Trickster
Audio-visual Interactive Dance Performance involving motion tracking and
a wearable glove sensors interface at New York Public Library, Hamilton Fish Park, Op On Screen Interactive, October 22, 2009
Aural Aura
Interactive performance using computer vision and wireless bodysuit sensors to visualize and sonify Chi Kung meditation exercises, 2009-2016
Light Identity
Computer vision light installation using robotic mirror to reflect multiple projections of a body in motion, exploring individual identity and the fragmented self, ITP, 2007