Dr Woohoo's photostream  

The Psycho-Plaid Collection



Statement
I'm sitting in front of the Centre for Le Corbusier in Zürich on New Year's Eve a few years ago wondering why he chose that particular composition of the windows. At the time I had hooked up MATLAB to Photoshop and was generating visuals based on algorithmic combinatoric iterations... and I wondered if I could do the same with aesthetic combinatorics. With that in mind, one of the algorithms I've fallen in love with lately – which helps me generate a style that I'm calling Psycho-Plaid. The results prompted me to put them into a collection and then upload it online recently, which can be viewed here. The designs are not dormant, though, and have a desire to jump from the screen and live on textiles, stained glass, ceramics, house decor, etc., etc., and thanks to the fact that they are resolution independent and I can sculpt them with code, coaxing them to shift the structure of their format to accommodate a wide range of file formats, doing so will be relatively easy.

Desired Product List
Here’s a short list of products I would like to license my designs for sophisticated and high-quality: bags, bedding, blinds, cabinetry, car wraps, cloth napkins, comforters, curtains, cushions, doors, duvet covers, dish towels, embroidery, fabrics, frescos, furniture, hand fans, jewelry, lampshades, molds (for glass, ceramic, porcelain or metal sculptures ), murals, pillows, pillowcases, rugs, scarves, sheets, stamps (rubber, candle), stoneware (dinnerware sets, cookware, etc), stencils, table runners, table place-mats, tiles (glass, mosaic, ceramic), throws, umbrellas (paper), upholstery, wallpaper, wall hangings, window (shades, drapes).

Bio
Dr. Woohoo (translation: Serious Fun), is a New Mexico based artist, developer and lecturer creating work for a wide range of clients, including Adobe, Taylormade-Adidas Golf, Nike Golf and Camelbak. Working with digital media since 1993, Woohoo's professional projects are available at www.drwoohoo.com and at Dr. Woohoo on Flickr.

Woohoo's projects typically flow from the abstract to the practical. To generate his artwork, he cyclically moves between creating his own color and brush applications and plug-ins that attempt to capture his emotions and artistic vision, while emulating natural media. Woohoo's artwork can be found online, on tv, prints, canvas, silk chiffon kimonos and scarves, as kinetic sculptures and soon as ceramic and glass mosaic tiles. As a simple rule, he chooses to integrate rather than duplicate features that already exist in the creative applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Maya and Painter) that he uses. This à la carte approach allows Woohoo to mix-n-match any feature from these applications along with his own bag of tricks and sculpt them into his own set of über-creative application(s). From a creative perspective, this allows him to extend his creative capabilities. From a practical perspective, it turns out that the processes and tools created for Generative Art are a perfect match for automating and adding to the intelligence of the creative process and workflow – giving the designer an infinite amount of possibilities, while focusing in on variations that are relevant to that designers preferences.

Woohoo has won over 50 awards – all of which he has recycled with a smile on his face and liberation in his heart. He has/will exhibit(ed) his work and/or was a speaker at:

2011
- [Secret], São Paulo, Brazil, November 19-20th
- Taos Lecture Series, Taos, NM, October 5th
- FOTB 2011, Brighton, UK, September 11-14th
- Finite and Infinite, Sellars Project Space, Denver, CO, July 1-31
- Currents 2011, Santa Fe, NM, June 10-19
- Multi-Mania, XPO Kortrijk, Belgium, May 23-24
- From Pixels-to-Prints, Solo Show @ Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, April 1-15th

2010
- Photoshop User Magazine, Speed Clinic: Color Analytics, May Issue
- www.moo.com/designs/designers/drwoohoo/, March
- The Art + Science of Systems Biology, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, NM
- Digital Design in Art + Architecture, UNM's School of Architecture + Planning GPH Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2009
- Flash on the Beach, Brighton, UK, September 21-23rd
- Projected Lights, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, NM
- FrankenCircuit, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, NM
- Photoshop User Magazine: Speed Clinic Article, July/August Issue
- FlashBelt, Minneapolis, MN, June 7-10th
- Flash on Tap: Boston, May 28-30th
- FITC: Toronto, April 26-28
- Grassy Knoll Gallery, Portland, OR (First solo show), April 2 - August 28th
- Grassy Knoll Gallery, Portland, OR (Workshop on writing scripts, applications and flash plug-ins that extend Photoshop and Illustrator), April 1 6pm
- Art and Code, Pittsburgh, PA, March 7-9th
- Photoshop User Magazine: Featured Article, March Issue


2008
- Adobe Max: San Francisco, California, November 16-19
- FITC @ MAX, November 19
- head, October 24-26
- WDDC: Orlando, Florida, October 13-15
- Flash on the Beach, Brighton, UK, September 28-Oct 1
- ArtCast in assoc w/moves08, April 24
- Cinemathque: Slowtime2007: Quicktime as an artistic medium, April
- FITC: Toronto, April
- File-Rio-2008, the Electronic Language International Festival in Rio, February - March
- Adobe Design Gallery, February
- www.moo.com/designs/designers/drwoohoo/, January

2007
- Flash On The Beach, Brighton Beach, UK, November
- Communication Arts Magazine, Photography Annual - Article on In The Mod
- Adobe Max: Europe (Barcelona), October
- Best in the SW Flash Animation & Motion Graphics Conference, October
- FILE-2007, the Electronic Language International Festival from August 20th- to September 16th-, in Sao Paulo City
- Lucania Film Festival from August 11-15, 2007 in Lucania, Italy
- DomeFest, Albuquerque, NM
- The OutVideo '07 International video-art festival from July 5 - August 5 and will tour 16 different Russian cities
- Visual Music Marathon (Boston)
- MegaBytes 6, Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe)
- Futuresonic 2007: Urban Festival of Art, Music + Ideas in Manchester, UK
- I/WE: Case Studies, SCAD-Atlanta Show
- SXSW (Austin)

2006
- MAX (Singapore & Seoul)
- Flash Forward (Seattle)
- NAB (Las Vegas)
- OFFF: BCN (Barcelona)
- MegaBytes 4, Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe)

2005
- AIGA (Seattle)