IBM Watson Amplify
Co-directed a live visual performance for 5,000 people and designed the real-time live-drawing tool behind it. With Elastic Shore & Interactika.
Design engineer & artist · Brooklyn
Gordey
Chernyy
Prototypes, instruments, and experiences you can feel. Real-time visuals, VR & mixed reality, AI products, and handpan.
I'm best at the early, uncertain stage: rough idea → working prototype → real people → what actually works. I'd rather test an idea this week than debate it for a month, and I care as much about how an interaction feels as whether it works.
- Artist
- Creative coder
- 8+ years Unity / VR
- AI products
01 — Selected work
Experiences & prototypes
Live shows, interactive installations, and playable prototypes — built as lead artist or programmer.
Lauryn Hill — Diaspora Calling!
Real-time VJ graphics performed live alongside the show.
Keurig Interactive Pool
Interactive projections that respond to people in and around the water.
KIA To The Moon
A party game where a real car is the controller.
Seaing Breath
Breath-controlled VR for kids about rising sea levels. Shown in Miami museums.
Augmented Portraits
Live tablet portraits of guests, then every stroke re-animated on screen.
Prisms VR Math
Math you learn with your hands. Used in 190 districts across 36 states; led the Meta Quest launch.
Volumetric hand drawing
Drawing in the air as dance or Tai Chi — strokes that follow the body, not the brush.
See the demo on LinkedIn ↗02 — Art & performance
Live visuals, live painting, bodies in motion
Before the headsets there was paint. I still build tools that let a gesture become light in real time.
03 — Handpan
Field recordings
in Brooklyn
Open-air sessions with a portable mic on a stand — under the stone arches of Prospect Park, by the lake, in subway passages, and on the waterfront facing the Statue of Liberty. Liminal spaces, played live.
Listen on Instagram ↗
04 — Products
Shipping things people use
Matter Neuroscience
Designed and built M, an AI coach, the Happiness Report, and Optic, the design system underneath them.
Dream Window
A voice dream journal where your dreams turn into tiny playable games.
dreamwindow.app ↗Studio
Synesthetic Echo
The XR & games studio I co-founded with Maria Mishurenko. Selected studio work:
Bizarre BarberVR action game · Steam 2020
Impromptu JamMultiuser AR music jam
Bumblebee JamMusical adventure · Bose AR
Finist PainterCollaborative VR art
Awere VRBreathing biofeedback
MIDI in HoudiniCourse · SIGGRAPH 2020
Mind RoomieMindfulness VR for kids
Action SpectraSocial VR fitness
PhilosophariumPoint-and-click philosophy
05 — About
Artist first,
engineer by necessity
I started as an illustrator and art director, studied psychology, then taught myself to code so the drawings could move. That turned into live visuals for stages, then eight-plus years of Unity and VR, and now AI products. The thread is the same: make the thing, put it in front of people, feel what works.
- 2024–26Design Engineer, Matter Neuroscience
- 2020–23Lead Unity Dev, Prisms VR Math
- 2018–Co-founder, Synesthetic Echo
- 2016–18Creative Tech Lead, Elastic Shore
- 2016Artist-in-Residence, CU Boulder
- 2012–14Art director, 50+ media products for non-profits
- 2009–11Co-founder, Whitehill Design Studio
- 2006Illustrator
- SIGGRAPH 2020Speaker, MIDI in Houdini
- Oculus Launch Pad2018 grant
- NYU Game CenterIncubator finalist 2019
- CU BoulderArtist-in-Residence 2016
06 — Contact