Tons of Tongues
A local multiplayer party game for PC with an unbelievable and innovative user experience.
Artist Statement
“We two form a communion.” — b
There is some holy situation, something sacred between us. Between any two entities lies some mystery, something unnamable. The web of relating — of this to that, that to another, another to this or this or this, through time — is reality.
We each shift, shape, sculpt the web with each breath, kiss, brushstroke. Each chiseled moment, each shouted song, whispered betrayal, muted moan: they all contribute to the unknowable shape of the whole, in sometimes fantastic, sometimes tragic, always unknowable ways.
Body Works
- Golden Ratio SpiralSole of the foot, 2009. A golden-ratio spiral.
- TRUFFLELeft arm. A blank date field over a four-item list; item one reads TRUFFLE, items two to four are left blank. Set in the triptych stamps.
- WE TWO FORM A COMMUNIONRight arm. Text piece set in the triptych stamps.
Timeline
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2025–present
ROTBAE
A synthetic entity and album project: rot, rot (ROTBAE's version), and Rimming the Zeitgeist. AI music, visualizers, and conceptual web apps.
321FACE!
A mobile game that uses ML Kit to identify your facial expressions—and you can't make the same face twice.
BLUE DOT
A mobile habit tracker. Interface and interaction design.
Meta
Support Specialist.
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2024
benjaminolmstedart
An Instagram daily practice: 84 days, 252 works.
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2021–2023
Coding and digital media bootcamp
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2020
Bloom Blocks; Chaos Computers
Video and computational works.
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2017
procgen::angelsinthearchitecture.js
Generative code animation, 9:45.
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2015–2019
Metro
Kitchen design and build-out, and video work.
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2014
India
Travel and research.
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2013
Block Party
Tabletop game design, and the founding of Three Pixel Heart with George.
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2011
WITH
Dance performance at Stanford University; single-channel video documentation, 17:08. Video released March 31, 2014.
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c. 2009
Rock in a Cage
Angle iron, rebar, steel cable, and a quartz stone (~140 kg); 1 × 1 × 1.5 m. Made at the Quail Creek Ranch artist residency.
Self Death Masks
Face molds and clay casts, made during a one-month mentor residency alongside sculpture sketches.
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c. 2008
Cougar
Welded metal sculpture for Cougar Mellon Camp, Burning Man.
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2006–2011
Stanford University
Studies in Computer Science, Product Design, and Architectural Design. Metal casting, welding, lathe, and mill in the Product Realization Lab. Section leader and teaching assistant for introductory computer science.
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c. 2006
Light on Water
Stage lighting design for a senior play, with Jake: colored light reflected off a pool across the stage.
Also
- The Thailand Journals — collected letters from four months of travel in Thailand.
- Waldorf education — twelve years of singing, drawing, weaving, movement, and theater.
Ideation · Prototyping · User interfaces · Aesthetic development · Grounded concepts · Computer-based multimedia production · Video creation · Welding and metal fabrication · Programming