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.
PING! is meant to create a query from one person to another, establishing a network. A user is provided with a helmet with a 360 degree array of ultrasonic sensors, which pick up objects within 20 feet from the user and send out pings in all direction. When the user moves through space, their distance from others and the environment are converted into an auditory feedback. An emerging soundscape is formed between the user and everything around them.