My greatest passion is floating media. From fireworks to flying LEDs, I'm exploring the vast possibilities of airborne communication.

As a Research Associate for MIT’s Senseable City Lab, I oversee Flyfire – a project that aims to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment. Adam uses his passion of data visualization, media theory and graphical storytelling by supporting projects that explore spatial and pervasive media and sensor technologies.

Before joining MIT, I graduated from Ball State University in Indiana with a B.A. in Architecture and gained an acute interest in comprehending the real meaning of an architect in today's global society. To gain a greater understanding of a connected world and build upon a cross-disciplinary design foundation, I moved to New York City and received an M.S. in Visual Communications and Digital Design at Pratt Institute.

I have worked in both architecture and graphic design firms, and shared my research and projects at AIGA, TED and Oslo Lux. Read Less

•Aug 2010 – “Seaswarm”
Italian Pavillion; Venice Biennale
Oil-cleaning robot exhibited

•May 2010 – “Detached Messages”
Stay Lounge; New York, NY
Thesis design project exhibition

•May 2010 – “Pratt Show”
Manhattan Center; New York, NY
Graduate designs exhibited

•July 2007 – “Sites Unseen”
Living Arts of Tulsa; Tulsa, OK
Films of Flint Michigan housing
and waste and trash disposal

•Apr 2007 – “One Small Project”
Dean Johnson Gallery; Indianapolis
Documentation of homeless in LA

•Sep. ‘05 – “Colección de Imagenes”
TOD Center, Argentina
Photography exhibition of Midwest U.S. Read Less

•Jul 2011 - Wellington Lux
Massey University, New Zealand
light / space / interaction, 3-day seminar

•Apr 2011 – Forum on Future Cities
MIT, senseable.mit.edu/futurecities

•Mar 2011 – TED2011
Long Beach, California
Flyfire & Dancing Atoms presented

•Jan 2011 – Oslo Lux 2011
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
light / space / interaction, 1-day seminar

•Nov 2010 – TEDx MidAtlantic
Washington D.C., USA
Seaswarm project presented

•Oct 2010 – Floating Pixels Workshop
MIT, 1-day workshop on structured light
scanning with digital artist Aaron Koblin

•Dec 2009 – Digital Arts & Culture ‘10
University of California Irvine, CA

•Summer 2007 – CAP Americano Sur
Argentina, Palermo University
workshop with Craig Hartman (SOM)

•Spring 2007 – Glue staff, CAP journal
Editor and contributor of Ball State
Architecture and Planning journal

•Spring 2007 – Virginia Ball Seminar
“One Small Project”
www.bsu.edu/onesmallproject

•Fall 2005 – Virginia Ball Seminar
“America: the North and the South”
www.bsu.edu/vbc

•Fall 2004 – I-Beam Palette Design
disaster relief design workshop
with Azin Valy & Susan Wines Read Less