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Personal Experience
Partner, Tactile Interface Solutions; Toronto, ON 2009 - Present
Business partner and lead developer in a research and development firm creating interactive information systems to meet the challenges of language and accessibility in cultural centres. Website.
Instructor, Brock University; St. Catharines, ON (Winter Term) 2009 - 2011
Course director for Media Tools for Interactivity (IASC 2P10). Introduction to Max 5, micro-controllers and sensors, computer vision and new media art history.
Teaching Assistant, York University; Toronto, ON (Fall Term) 2010 - Present
Tutorial leader for Introduction to Digital Media (FACS/DM 1939) and Foundations of Digital Media (FACS/DM 2935). Introduction to XHTML, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop.
Projections Director, Leona Drive Project; Toronto, ON 2009
Technical consultant and director for indoor and outdoor projections displayed at Leona Drive Project.
Technology Manager and Senior Research Associate, Future Cinema Lab at York; Toronto, ON 2007 - Present
Manager and Technical advisor for the Canadian Foundation for Innovation funded Future Cinema Lab at York University including the Augmented Reality Lab. Website.
Max/MSP Programmer, Freelance Consultant; Toronto, ON 2006 - Present
Contracted by artists to program interactive installation environments in Max/MSP, Jitter, and SoftVNS. Established Aranar Productions in Ontario.
Research Assistant, York University; Toronto, ON 2006 - 2007
Hired to research equipment and software for the Augmented Reality Lab. Explored physical computing interfaces, infrared camera and marker technology. Worked with the Designer’s Augmented Reality Toolkit, produced by Georgia Institute of Technology.
Language Lab Assistant, Grant MacEwan College; Edmonton, AB 2002 - 2004
Ran tutorials for students and instructors on how to use Mac and PC software for time keeping, login account management, and language tutorials.
Education
York University, Toronto, Ontario - Bachelor of Arts, Honours (Magna Cum Laude), 2007.
York University, Toronto, Ontario - Cross Disciplinary Certificate in Digital New Media, 2007.
Presentations
“GPS Storytelling.” Staging Sustainability Conference. York University, Toronto, 2011.
“Future Cinema Lab at York.” Department of Film, York University, 2011.
“How to Make an Augmented Reality Popup Book” Site 3 Co-Lab, Toronto, 2010. Slides. Video.
“Augmented Reality for Artists and Designers.” Communications and Culture & Digital Media, York University, Toronto, 2010 & 2011.
“Future Stories: New Tools for New Screens.” Storytelling X.0 with Dr. Marian Ursu of Goldsmith’s University of London, UK. FITC, Toronto, 2010.
“Augmented Reality, Locative Media.” nGen Media Incubator, St. Catharines, ON, 2009.
Awards
Interactive Media Award, Applied Arts Magazine. The Unpredictable by Borzu Talaie and Andrew Roth. Category of offline digital - 2008. Website.
Fine Arts Cultural Studies Internal Award, York University - 2007.
York University Discretionary Bursary, York University - 2007.
Dean’s Prize for Excellence, York University - 2007.
Russell Norman Gladstone Memorial Bursary, York University - 2006.
Jason Lang Scholarship, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta - 2004.
Grant MacEwan College of Arts & Science Division Returning Student Scholarship - Dean’s List, Grant MacEwan University, Alberta - 2003.
Past Work
Here Be Gremlins. Video. Toronto, ON, 2011.
The Coat Check/Le Vestiaire Emanethane. Mixed Reality Installation by Aysegul Koc and Lingying Cheng. Toronto, ON, 2011.
“jit.artkmulti”- ARToolkit external for Max/MSP/Jitter. Max External. Toronto, ON, 2010. http://www.aranarproductions.com/artk
“is900” - Intersense IS900 VETracker external for Max/MSP/Jitter. Max External. Toronto, ON, 2010. http://futurecinema.ca/downloads/arlab.zip
The Amazing Cinemagician. Installation by Helen Papagiannis at TEDx YorkU, York University Glendon Campus, Toronto, ON, 2010.
The Amazing Cinemagician, WonderTurner and Magic Tunnel Popup Book. Installation by Helen Papagiannis at Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, ON, 2010.
ARambo. Installation by G. A. Rhodes at the Abandon Normal Devices Festival. Grizedale Park, Cumbria, UK 2010.
Banff CAVE. Interactive Immersive Environment Restoration. Banff, Alberta 2010.
Handheld City: Toronto Museum Project Augmented Reality Experience. Flash website. Toronto, ON, 2010. http://www.futurestories.ca/toronto
Margaret Learns to Drive from There to Here. Multichannel Video Installation by David Han. Leona Drive, North York ON & Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON, 2009.
SnapDragonAR - Drag and Drop 2D Augmented Reality Authoring Environment. Lead Developer. York University, Toronto 2009. http://www.futurestories.ca/snapdragonar
Living Postcards 2: Interactive Display for the C3Network of Ontario and York University. Canada 3.0, Stratford Rotary Complex, Stratford, Ontario, 2009.
Living Postcards: Interactive Display for the C3Network of Ontario. Future of the Internet Conference, Clarion Congress Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009.
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GiPS: Gremlin-infested Positioning System. Co-Production Residency. New Media Institute, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB, 2008. Press.
52 Card Psycho. Co-presenter with G. A. Rhodes. International Symposium on Electronic Arts, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2008.
The Unpredictable. Interactive Portfolio by Borzu Talaie. York/Sheridan Design Grad Show, Toronto Distillery District Gallery, 2008.
Transitions I & II: Sheets of Time, Revelations. Interactive Installations by Daria Magas-Zamaria. Master’s Thesis, Waterloo University and Alton Mill Gallery, Ontario, 2007 & 2008. Online.
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Shadow Play. Interactive Installation with Allana Mayer. Explore Design Expo, Toronto Metro Convention Centre, 2007.
Projects - Aranar Productions
IT Support, Building the Food Movement through Digital Stories Conference; Toronto, ON 2011. Infrastructure setup (projectors, computers, power) and individual presentation support for conference rooms. Custom software provided for video presentation and venue entrance.
Installation Consultant and Developer, Banff New Media Institute; Banff, AB 2010. Renovation to the Banff CAVE (5 wall passive stereo virtual environment). Installed software developed at York University and UC Santa Barbara to work in the Banff system.
Posters
Roth, A. "The Arlab and CAVE Libraries: on Authoring Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Experiences using a Graphical Programming Language." International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). 2011. Poster.
Bio
"My passion is to explore reactive and interactive installation art, mixed reality, and locative media in new and exciting forms. My profession enables inspired artists to realize their own ideas. I am currently involved in augmented reality research and development at York and I work as a freelance consultant for artists creating digital new media installations. I also teach graphical programming languages at an undergraduate level."
Andrew Roth is technology manager of the Future Cinema Lab at York University in Toronto and an instructor in the Interactive Arts and Sciences department at Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. As an artist and researcher, he has collaborated in interactive installations, augmented reality experiences, and the creation of tools for digital media artists. At the 2008 International Symposium on Electronic Art in Singapore, he co-presented the augmented reality project 52 Card Psycho: Re-imagining Cinema. His current research involves the use of augmented reality as a participatory learning tool and the use of graphical programming languages as an interface to optical tracking technologies.
Software
Multi-channel Cinema
3 Synchornized video screens. Mac UB.
