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This is the professional portfolio of Al Matthews.

I design and code for computer-mediated environments.

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Flex: Papervision Test

Flex project, using the beta library known as Papervision3D.


Audio: Perotin


Audio: Mark Godfrey

Audioresponsive animation is in AS3 using bitmaps, actually.
These are test items, projected as a billboard (i.e., frontally).

Flex Sample: Slitscan AS3

Real-time video slitscan, in Flex, using bitmap animation.


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Slitscanning has been an interest since I read about TxTransform in "Future Cinema" some years back. This particular slitscan algorithm comes from Golan Levin and Ben Fry, who implemented it in Java.

It reads pixel values live from a video stream, in the exact center of the playback image. Then it wipes them on the viewing canvas from right to left.

Two of the videos included here are from the Thelma project, which is my initial experiment in automated video assembly (these are by hand). The clips relate stories from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

Little Pretty Things

This is an experimental, personal project, algorithmic in the rule-based sense. Ambigrams often cohere from two directions.

This one self-restricts to one shot, one gesture, no adj:

Ambigram from Al Matthews on Vimeo.

v2.1 uses real-time hue analysis and OpenGL:

Ambigram_v2.1 from Al Matthews on Vimeo.

Visual Design

This is a vector piece I sketched for a client and friend. The underlying image, which is softly hinted, is from Bruce Conner:

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eTV Prototyping

A motion graphics piece I made for Cox Communications in 2007, while working in their Strategy and Product Development group.

The product itself remains under NDA.

However, I took the following roles:

(1) Design: research
(2) Design: UX
(3) Vendor management
(4) Full product specification

CNN Blue Chips

Stills and boards from a promo I directed and designed in 2006.
For CNN and British Petroleum (subsequently Lincoln Financial).

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Visual Design: Louvre GaTech

These are visual design deliverables, for Louvre Atlanta-High Museum of Art @gatech, also known as the Future of the Museum.

(1) The poster composite, which illustrates our installation proposal:

(2) Source images:

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Street Level

Visual design: DVD menu item:

The Hakano folks coveted that image in particular, so I re-versioned it for their video identity work. Logotype and audio bed belong to the client.

Southern Fried Tech from Al Matthews on Vimeo.

Sonic Generator, "Vox Balaenae"

Sonic Generator commissioned this, their inaugural video installation, for performance of George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae," or "Voice of the Whale."

Each musical instrument -- flute, piano, cello -- is miked independently. The moire patterns rotate responsively, in real-time. Rest of patch was performed live over the course of 20min, in January 2007.

Sonic Generator is a contemporary-repertory classical ensemble, comprised of Atlanta-area teaching and symphony musicians.

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