
Interactive Dance Floor Visuals
Guests step onto the dance floor and their silhouettes appear in real time, leaving glowing trails as they move. Built with Kinect tracking and TouchDesigner, custom color palettes for each event.
Hi, I’m Mariah. I create real-time interactive visuals in TouchDesigner that react to both audio and audience input, so people don’t just watch, they play. I work across live A/V sets, layered scrim stage installs, gallery exhibitions, and dance floor activations for events. Check out the case studies below to see what this looks like in practice.

Guests step onto the dance floor and their silhouettes appear in real time, leaving glowing trails as they move. Built with Kinect tracking and TouchDesigner, custom color palettes for each event.

A live A/V set that feels cohesive and easy to follow. Slope performs original electronic music while I run real-time visuals that stay synced to the set via TouchOSC, so drops, builds, and quiet sections land clearly. The rig is compact and fits on a small stage or in small rooms and the show leaves space for both seated listening and dance. We close with a short DJ segment where Slope plays a few tracks by other artists to keep the energy up and set the tone for the rest of the night.

Biomimicry and generative patterns emerge through a real-time audio reactive toolkit with spectrum analysis built in TouchDesigner, performed live to match varied audio. Five scrim planes and a short-throw projector create parallax and depth. Later in the night we switched to interactive mode, the same rig with a podium and controller so guests could immerse themselves in the visuals, learn more about the installation below!

Six interactive installations from my University Bridge residency. Audience-controlled through joysticks, MIDI, Kinect, and Leap Motion. Each piece translates bridge ecology data into something you can play with.
Mariah Vicary is a Seattle-based interactive and generative visual artist. She is on the City of Seattle Public Art Artist Roster (2024-2026) in the Digital/AR/VR and Lighting/Projection/Sound categories, pre-qualified for public art commissions through the 1% for Art Program. In 2023 she was the University Bridge Artist-in-Residence, a four-month residency inside a working drawbridge control tower commissioned by SDOT and Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, culminating in a six-installation capstone exhibition at King Street Station in early 2024. She has performed and installed at BassCoast Festival (BC), Portland Winter Lights Festival, Osmosis in the Trees (OR), Critical Northwest (WA), Research (Seattle), and Monkey Loft (Seattle).