The Brooklyn Research Podcast

Ivin Ballen co-founder of Lenscloud, a Brooklyn based 3D scanning technology business talks with Harriet Salmon from the Craftsmanship podcast. Lenscloud specializes in custom solutions for high volume 3D data capture, as well as more conventional 3D scanning processes. Ballen worked as a materials specialist and fabricator for ten years before starting Lenscloud. Currently, Ballen is working with MIT's Immersion Lab on a custom photogrammetry scanner for high-speed avatar creation....

Recorded on Sept. 18th 2019 in front of a live audience at Brooklyn Research. Harriet Salmon, host of the Craftsmanship podcast, interviews Marty Chafkin from Perfection Electricks. Perfection Electricks is a professional fabrication shop offering consulting, design support, fabrication, and repair services. They have worked with artists, museums, galleries, producers, and creatives on a diverse range of imaginative projects. Founded by Marty Chafkin in 1984, the business started as a...

Recorded on Sept. 4th 2019 in front of a live audience at Brooklyn Research. Harriet Salmon, host of the Craftsmanship podcast, interviews Brooklyn Research founders Alex Dodge, Johnny Lu, and Ezer Longinus. They discuss Brooklyn Research's beginning and the many projects they've worked on over the past 7 years.

We are teaming up with Harriet Salmon from the Craftsmanship podcast to bring you a new series of talks at Brooklyn Research. The series is called Tradecraft. In this series we present a unique spotlight into the world of fabricators, specialized technicians, artisans, and masters of their trade. These individuals are often artists in their own right but work tirelessly behind the scenes to build, engineer, and realize technically demanding projects for the artists and institutions that...

Rune Madsen and Martin Bravo are interviewed by Alex Dodge at Brooklyn Research on February 28, 2018. Rune and Martin discuss their newly founded company Design Systems International, their work at the intersection of graphic design and programming languages, and how these same ideas influence the work of their studio when developing design systems for digital products, dynamic identities, or custom design tools.

Brooklyn Research’s 2018 Summer Research Session team is interviewed by Alex Dodge at Brooklyn Research on August 21, 2018. This year’s team includes Nicole Cabalquinto (CUNY - City Tech, BS), Huiyi Chen (NYU - ITP, MPS 2019), Kathy Ching (NYU - IDM, BS 2020), and Nick Wallace (NYU - ITP, MPS 2019). Together they talk about their 12 week session at Brooklyn Research during which they explored new forms of interaction and game control including the use of commonplace kitchen appliances and...

Artist Vincent Houzé interviewed by Alex Dodge at Brooklyn Research on March 12, 2018. Houzé talks about his experience as an artist in New York making interactive work, tools he uses like TouchDesigner, and GLSL shaders. Vincent Houzé uses modern computer graphics techniques to create interactive art, performances, and large-scale multimedia installations. His practice centers on dynamic simulations and systems in which simple rules give rise to complexity, richness, and realistic motion in...