In the news | CNET
Thanks to Microsoft’s incubator-like environment and George’s ingenuity, the artist in residence has become an expert in manipulating three-dimensional objects.
In the news | Fast Company
Good thing, George says, that Microsoft has a ‘sense of humor about everything.’ In fact, that sensibility is exactly what enables something like an artist-in-residence program in the first place—which will in turn help Microsoft foster an internal culture of…
In the news | GeekWire
…one of George’s pieces, called “Grip,” used Microsoft Research’s real-time 3D scene capturing technology to create an abstract interactive presentation of two human forms, which fall away from each other and then come back together when Kinect sensors detect someone…
In the news | The Verge
George was invited to spend three months as the first-ever artist-in-residence at Microsoft Research’s Studio 99, where he’s had the company’s digital toolkit at his disposal to create new works of art.
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