Artist Bio
Tim Thompson is a software engineer, musician, and installation artist. After working for Bell Labs and AT&T (20 years) and NetApp (9 years), he moved on to wide-ranging artistic work which includes a programming language for MIDI (KeyKit), interactive installations at Burning Man and other festivals (a 12-foot lyre, an 11-foot monolith, an antique radio), musical performances with Playstation dance pads and QWERTY keyboards, visual performances using multitouch pads (pre-iPhone), and realtime video looping and processing with a handheld security camera (LoopyCam). The website timthompson.com documents these and other works, including a collection of web-based algorithmic music toys. Recently, Tim has focused on the expressive potential of three-dimensional input, using devices such as the Microsoft Kinect.