Stewart Smith

Recruiting and judging innovative technology startups for initial round of SXSW Pitch process. Nominating candidates of industry experts, high-profile media professionals, venture capital investors, and angel investors for live event panel to be held at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Established corporation to push boundaries of digital creativity for quantum computing, spatial computing, and beyond. Created Quantum JavaScript (Q.js), an open-source drag-and-drop quantum circuit composer and circuit simulator.

Collaborated with Yale University faculty and students at the Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) to create conceptually relevant, quantum-inspired artworks for one-year artist residency—including an interactive public art installation on the New Haven Green as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. https://stewartsmith.io/topics/yale-quantum-institute

Collaborated with top-tier AWS customers to create cloud-based XR experiences. Conceptualized and implemented innovative interfaces for quantum circuit composition.

Created experiments related to spatial authoring, discovery, and consumption. Collaborated with outside artists to ideate experiences using the latest in spatial technology.

— Invented Yahoo Mail Autocompose, an automatic love letter generator, as a Valentine’s Day marketing “Charm Offensive” campaign resulting in a patent filing for generating messages based on the expression style of an existing corpus via machine learning / generative AI. See https://stewartsmith.io/essays/charm-offensive
— Created interactive data visualizations of user trends, enjoyed by Jeff Bonforte and Marissa Mayer.
— Proposed innovative strategies for utilizing existing products and… Show more

— Invented Yahoo Mail Autocompose, an automatic love letter generator, as a Valentine’s Day marketing “Charm Offensive” campaign resulting in a patent filing for generating messages based on the expression style of an existing corpus via machine learning / generative AI. See https://stewartsmith.io/essays/charm-offensive
— Created interactive data visualizations of user trends, enjoyed by Jeff Bonforte and Marissa Mayer.
— Proposed innovative strategies for utilizing existing products and assets to move the brand forward. Show less

— Concepted and launched two highly successful Mobile Chrome promotions: Racer, a multi-device social racing game, and Roll It, an accelerometer-based Skeeball-like game. See https://stewartsmith.io/topics/google
— Created the Rubik’s Cube Google Doodle and its corresponding open-source framework, Cuber. See https://stewartsmith.io/work/rubiks-cube
— Learned bewildering conceptual basics of quantum mechanics and adiabatic computation.
— Ideated, designed, coded, copy wrote, and… Show more

— Concepted and launched two highly successful Mobile Chrome promotions: Racer, a multi-device social racing game, and Roll It, an accelerometer-based Skeeball-like game. See https://stewartsmith.io/topics/google
— Created the Rubik’s Cube Google Doodle and its corresponding open-source framework, Cuber. See https://stewartsmith.io/work/rubiks-cube
— Learned bewildering conceptual basics of quantum mechanics and adiabatic computation.
— Ideated, designed, coded, copy wrote, and directed as the situation called for alongside an infectiously talented team of collaborators. Show less

Created semester graduate course, titled “Visualizing JavaScript”—mixing practical coding techniques with design thinking to create browser-based works. Students examined JavaScript’s syntax, inheritance model, simple 2D animation with Paper.js, 3D scenes with Three.js, querying an API for data via Ajax, JavaScript as a data storage format, and filtering a live webcam stream. Critiques of student work focused on craft, concept, legibility, visual hierarchies, and other design factors.

Proposed a politically radical, decentralized communication and collaboration architecture in the interest of urban sustainability. Contracted for the duration of the pitch. Won some head nods and smirks from the smart kids.

Awarded artist in residence position to develop an exhibition centerpiece—panoramic data animations of the global art network’s transactions in both cultural and financial capital. Performed as artist, designer, and developer in collaboration with Bernd Lintermann, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, and the Global Art and the Museum team. https://stewartsmith.io/work/transactions

Concepted, designed, and developed exhibition piece for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) exhibition “How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now” in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko. Our piece, Under Vine, visualizes shifts in the global wine market from the 1970’s through today—emphasizing the transition from European centrism to the rapid expansion of global trade networks following the 1976 Judgement of Paris during which American wines outperformed their… Show more

Concepted, designed, and developed exhibition piece for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) exhibition “How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now” in collaboration with Robert Gerard Pietrusko. Our piece, Under Vine, visualizes shifts in the global wine market from the 1970’s through today—emphasizing the transition from European centrism to the rapid expansion of global trade networks following the 1976 Judgement of Paris during which American wines outperformed their French counterparts in a blind tasting. (Yes, indeed!) See https://stewartsmith.io/work/under-vine Show less

Concepted, designed, and developed animated immersive visualizations of human migration data projected into a custom-constructed 360 degree room in collaboration with architect Elizabeth Diller, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, et al. for French cultural theorist Paul Virilio’s “Exit (Terre Natale)” exhibition in Paris and its subsequent travels to Copenhagen, Bilbao, and beyond. Though hired as a visual designer it quickly became clear to myself and colleague Robert Pietrusko that our technical… Show more

Concepted, designed, and developed animated immersive visualizations of human migration data projected into a custom-constructed 360 degree room in collaboration with architect Elizabeth Diller, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, et al. for French cultural theorist Paul Virilio’s “Exit (Terre Natale)” exhibition in Paris and its subsequent travels to Copenhagen, Bilbao, and beyond. Though hired as a visual designer it quickly became clear to myself and colleague Robert Pietrusko that our technical expertise would be employed to its fullest extent. In the first four months on task I taught myself Processing (still in beta at the time), Java, OpenGL, and co-developed the Bronson animation framework for composing and debugging panoramic data animations. See https://stewartsmith.io/work/exit Show less

Created semester graduate course, titled “Visualizing Data: Code Meets Graphic Design”—mixing design critique with code development in Processing and Java.

Conceived of and founded underground publication. Organized finances, distribution, and public relations networks. Conducted topical political interviews with contemporary artists and musicians. Designed print and website materials. Published essays, short stories, comics, and interviews with local bands and mini-celebrities like Ed & Lorraine Warren and Lisa DeHaven. As Tweed matured in format from cut-and-paste photocopies to online journal, the musician interviews became the zine’s focal… Show more

Conceived of and founded underground publication. Organized finances, distribution, and public relations networks. Conducted topical political interviews with contemporary artists and musicians. Designed print and website materials. Published essays, short stories, comics, and interviews with local bands and mini-celebrities like Ed & Lorraine Warren and Lisa DeHaven. As Tweed matured in format from cut-and-paste photocopies to online journal, the musician interviews became the zine’s focal point. Highlights included discussions with Mates of State, Emily Haines of Metric, Denali / Bella Lea, Grandaddy, and Robb Nansel of Saddle Creek Records. Show less

Assisted studio principal, David Reinfurt, in design tasks. I’m not sure I was all that much help, but I learned a lot and I deeply value my formative time under David’s guidance.