Coder and artist. Making elephants fly.
“As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am continuing to engage future creators by showing them they can be more than simply consumers of their digital world”
— CINDY BISHOP
Cindy Sherman Bishop is a highly skilled technologist leveraging her superpowers amidst the intersection of technology and it’s various forms of storytelling. She has created interactive installations for galleries, film festivals, and museums, as well as software for enterprise applications. Her most recent collaboration, Chomsky vs. Chomsky: a VR/AI experience, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2020, New Frontier category.
As AI extends its tethers into all branches of industry, Cindy joined MIT RAISE – Responsible AI for Social Education. She expanded its XR capabilities and is eager to hook these into AI (reinforcement learning initially). See her efforts on github. At her previous job, as Director of Technology, she iterated on a platform for journalism, landing on sourcebase.ai, a LLM-based query for journalists and researchers.
Previous projects:
MediaCloud.org, VRDoodler.com, creative civic AR, media image analysis.
Rockstar-ai.com, “Natural Networks.”
Skillset:
React.js, Node.js, Express, Apollo, GraphQL, Hasura, ES6, Heroku, Docker, HTML5, Three.js, WebGL, WebRTC, webVR, CSS3, JQuery, Javascript, XML, Java, Python, Scheme, Blockly, JSON,PHP,JSP, pyenv, MySQL, Flask server, Flash/Flex, Java, any web development really, CMS, videography, production. Final Cut Pro, Processing, Swift, objective C. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, storytelling, some machine learning/AI frameworks and algorithms via TensorFlow, pytorch, Microsoft Azure NLP, LUIS
C++/openFrameworks, computer vision, facial recognition, ARKit, ARCore, STT, conversational AI
- GitHub
- YouTube Channel
- Master’s Thesis at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
- BA Vassar College
Drop me a Message:
cindyloo_home at yahoo