Currently I am a research assistant at the Physical Language Workshop (PLW), under Prof. John Maeda, at the MIT Media Lab.

The PLW is currently working on a large project called the treehouse studio, a suite of online-accessible applications for drawing, painting, photography, sound-editing, and video-editing. In addition to being a toolbox, the tree house is also a community for creative expression, peer feedback, and collaboration. The project started last summer, and has come a long way, but our dreams are big, we will be working on this for a while.

The treehouse is also the context and framework for our groups research activities. Part of the treehouse functionality comes from a web based operating system also under development. The group works closely together developing these core tools, but each RA also explores their own topics within this system. So I am also currently exploring ambient displays of realtime data using visual metaphors of form and motion. (screen shots soon)

postal:
Noah Fields
MIT Media Lab
Room E15-301
20 Ames St.
Cambridge MA.

info-super-highway:
mail: knowuh at media dot mit dot edu
im: noah617 at mac dot com