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Public Gallery Exhibit: University Bridge Residency Capstone

Six live, interactive TouchDesigner works across a public gallery space

Venue

King Street Station • Pioneer Square, Seattle • Feb 2024

Format

Multi-installation exhibit • 6 interactive works

Projector

Short-throw projection (various) • gallery lighting

Controls

TouchDesigner • joystick • MIDI • Leap Motion • arcade+

Event & Space

Public gallery exhibition at King Street Station (Seattle) and First Friday art walk feature

This capstone celebrates months of work inside the University Bridge’s southeast control tower (Fall 2023), where I collaborated with SDOT to study and visualize bridge rhythms and local ecology—everything from live weather to seasonal salmon spawn counts. With support from the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, we brought six interactive pieces to King Street Station’s bright, multi-wall public gallery (Jan 26–Feb 3, 2024), opening across First Friday to welcome a wide public. Each station translated residency research into approachable play—gesture, sound, and pattern—so families, bridge nerds, and art audiences could step in, experiment, and connect the visuals back to the living systems of the bridge and its surroundings.

Experience

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.
University Bridge Residency

Here are the installations that were presented at this event, click through to learn more about each piece.

Spawn Scape
Weather Synthesis
Plankton Perspectives
Bridge Particles
Colorful Catalysts
Reaction Diffusion

Design & Build

Projection/Displays: short-throw projectors and gallery monitors (piece-dependent)
Control: TouchDesigner with custom mappings (joystick, MIDI pads, arcade stick, Leap Motion)
Footprint: modular wall/pod layouts with tidy cable management for public access
Onboarding: one-line prompts at each station; staff walkthrough as needed
Setup: staged over one day with calibrated per-piece brightness/color/resolution
Options: coherent signage, data overlays, accessibility captions

Residency & Research: University Bridge Southeast Tower (2023) → Capstone exhibit at King Street Station (Jan 26–Feb 3, 2024).
Visuals / Installations: Mariah Vicary.
Special thanks: Seattle Office of Arts & Culture (ARTS) and staff; University Bridge drawbridge operators; King Street Station gallery staff and volunteers.