Joseph Carr

I'm a multimedia designer. My creative interests are in technical photography, scientific illustration, and documentary.

3D Graphics

Modeling, rendering, animation, and compositing.

Lamps

Renderings of a number of designer lamps. (26 items)

Copepods

Illustrations of small aquatic invertebrates in the style of Ernst Haeckel. (8 items)

Volvox, Spirogyra, and Chlamydomonas

Stock video depicting several well known, charismatic microorganisms. (1 item)

DNA

Several illustrations exhibiting aspects of the structure of DNA. (5 items)

Cellular Structures

Diagrammatic illustrations of mitochondria, prokaryotic cells, and membrane structures. (4 items)

Creative Coding

Generative systems and live coding performance.

Cellular Automata

Among the simplest models of computing machines, even trivial cellular automata give rise to startling complexity. (4 items)

Turing Patterns

Turing patterns were described by Alan Turing as a computational model of pigmentation patterns in animals. (3 items)

Spirographs

A single algorithm for coloring parametric renderings of hypotrochoids yields an enormous variety of forms. (5 items)

Whitman Sampler

A brief live-coding performance at the Gallery Formerly Known as Happy Dog. (1 item)

Not Voice

A response to the Lettrist poetry of Isidore Isou and minimal compositional techniques. The work was heavily influenced by Florain Cramer's essay, "Words Made Flesh." (1 item)

Optics

Telescopic, microscopic, and macro photography and videography.

Polarized Light Micrographs

Microscopic views of crystals under polarized light produce strange yet familiar images of uncharted landscapes. (5 items)

The Moon

Viewing the moon telescopically. (3 items)

Microscopy

(4 items)

Macro Photography

(5 items)

Foam Micrograph Time-lapse

(1 item)

Moving Image

Digital cinematography and videography.

I Don't Care

Casey Puccini's feature length dark comedy about a narcisistic filmmaker sabotaging his second film (content warning: strong language). Role: cinematographer.

Gametes

A micro-documentary on a collaborative installation by Kellie Romany and Nicole Seisler at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park, Chicago.

Hypercapitalism

Janet Lin's three-minute, single-take satire of Chinese-American foreign policy relations from her perspective as a citizen of Taiwan. Role: cinematographer.

Change that Isn't Motion

A series of digital video loops constructed from still images. The image changes at a pace that is only barely perceptible, like the billowing of clouds.

There is a Verge…

"There is a verge of the mind which these things haunt; and whispers therefrom mingle with the operations of our understanding…" — William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience