I'm lucky enough to be coding for Jamie Allen's project refractive index along with Jamie and David Gaultier. refractive index is an art project exploring the capabilities of large public displays to affect the architecture of their surroundings.

More from Jamie about this and other projects on his site here.

The Meat License proposal is an ongoing project by artist John O'Shea

For his 2012 exhibition at Stroom Den Haag, we collaborated on an interactive document visualisation. Audio interviews about the Meat License Proposal, played from an iPod touch control a lighting system. The projector highlights relevant documents as the interview progresses.

More about the show here.

traceNorth is a public art work displayed on King's Gate via projection. The project is commissioned by the Northern Stage in collaboration with Culture Lab as part of their 40th Birthday celebration of Northern Stage's project.
traceNorth is a data visualisation project which reinterprets traffic flow of the city of Newcastle into visual representations of constantly transforming organic shapes. This representation re-imagines the city as a living organism of movement and human presence rather than simply showing the activity of traffic cycles.
Traffic congestion data drives the shape and size of the individual arms of each organic shape that are linked to a particular location of the city represented by the map structure of each object. The data was collected by the school of Civil Engineering and Geosciences' Transport Operations Research Group at Newcastle University in collaboration with Newcastle City Council and represents one single day of traffic information of the city.

macroscope from tom schofield on Vimeo.

macroscope was developed with Martyn Dade-Robertson Newcastle University Architecture Landscape and Planning

macroscope uses a physics system to map research documents so that similar documents cluster.

Similarity is inferred by comparing results from a tfidf analysis.
Top results from the analysis can be displayed and documents are searchable for the context of those results.

The tool is intended to be a comparative and interactive search process and users can choose to compare documents to different text corpera to view the results under the “lenses” of different subject areas.

macroscope was built in processing

Stupid Tw**t is an interactive installation projected publically in Durham, UK.

The installation takes the form of a twitter client projected on an outdoor projection surface. Participants tweet celebrity names to be included in the projection however rather than simply displaying tweets about that person, Stupid tw**t swaps the names of the 'tweeter' and 'tweetee' so the tweet 'Barack Obama is not an American' by @averageJoePlumber would appear in the feed as 'averageJoePlumber is not an American'

By confusing the identities of subject and object, the piece plays with the nature of twitter celebrity.

Stupid Tw**t was commissioned by Empty Shop, Durham emptyshop.org/ as part of Design Event design-event.co.uk/