Vocalizer. Visual artist. Map jockey.
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial/web software engineer. He's made 16mm experimental films which have been exhibited across the United States, Canada, and France; worked with alternative photographic processes such as pinhole, photogravure, and cyanotype; and on his own – or as a member of the Cornelius Cardew and Long Tone Choirs – he's performed at the Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Center for New Music, The Chapel and the Chapel of the Chimes, Finnish Kaleva Hall, Luggage Store Gallery, Meridian Gallery, Mills College, Temescal Art Center, the Tower at Oliver Ranch, and the Western Bunkers at Mare Island.
He's presently focused on combining strategies from experimental film & animation, color theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry with open data and open source software to create digital maps that behave in ways never intended by the original developers. Some of these maps find their way into single channel video works, some are projected and manipulated in real time as part of collaborative performances with improvising musicians.