Julien Kris is a media artist, game designer, and creative technologist
who uses software “incorrectly” to invent alternative interfaces for his body when mainstream technologies fail him. Jules’ projects have been featured at museums and festivals in the United States, including the UCLA Game Art Festival at The Hammer
Museum, Indiecade Festival, Different Games Conference, LA Weekly’s Artopia, and
CultureHub LA. He’s taught workshops at NYU ITP, Processing Community Day, Pepperdine
University, Navel, Tiny Tech Zines, and Glendale Tech Week.
Jules holds a BA in Design Media Arts from UCLA, where he co-founded voidLab︎︎︎, an LA-based intersectional feminist collective for women, trans and queer people. Jules is an alum of the UCLA Game Lab︎︎︎.
Empathetic Topographies is an interactive installation that uses facial recognition, algorithmic blob detection and computational subtitling to respond to varying levels of interpersonal interaction. Different solo and group interactions cause shifts in topographic pulse, color and brightness values as more faces are detected, and as the distance between faces changes.
