Colin Clark is an artist, researcher, and developer of community-led technologies. As a co-founder of Lichen Community Systems, a non-profit cooperative research studio, he designs and develops access systems and supports cultural organizations in accessible design, software architecture, and community engagement.
With Kinetic Light and others in the disability arts community, Colin develops new technologies that help provide full access to the artistic experience by disabled audience members and performers—including wireless and wearable haptics, spatialized audio, inclusive motion tracking, and multilayered audio description tools. Colin has composed several pieces specifically for vibro-haptic media installations, resulting in new compositional techniques and software tools for creating vibration-first haptics.
Colin’s artistic practice as an improviser, video artist, and composer explores the ways that technologies produce new temporalities and senses of time, often by combining and repurposing sonic processes in the production of visual media. Colin performs with Bitstance, a networked electronic music ensemble for which he designs and builds generative signal processing hardware and software. A significant aspect of Colin’s practice-based research involves exploring new modes of programming and designing artistic systems. He is the author of Signaletic, Flocking, osc.js, and other open source frameworks used by artists worldwide.
