This website is an index of works in-progress, collaborations and past projects.
I'm Stephanie Koltun, a creative technologist who codes and designs interactive projects.
My work takes various forms but often explores physical space, large datasets, media, and how technology informs our understanding of these things.
— In Progress
Known and Strange Places—a daily practice of interative map-making, from the scale of the body to the scale of the city
All The Places You Must Go—get directions, but routed through the most popular Instagram locations (sorta) along the way
How Thrilling—how does context, technology and Michael Jackson change our performance in front of others?
— Collaborations (Past and Present)
Sourcemap—developer and designer for a web-based supply-chain platform
features includes data collection, mapping and visualization, network analysis, and supplier discovery
ML5.js—former working group member for a high level javascript library for machine learning
with NYU ITP
Adjacent—former editor and writer for the NYU ITP online journal for emerging media and interactive technology
with NYU ITP, edited Issues 1 through 4
ActionIQ—developed a design system and interaction language for a growing startup
work is under a non-disclosure agreement
— Other Projects
Acquiring Design—an interface for exploring relationships within the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum’s collection.
Birds in C—conduct an orchestra of birds through a re-interpretion of Terry Riley’s “In C”
Thermal Comfort Tool—designed and developed an online tool for evaluting thermal comfort in winter months
with Payette
The Train and The Station—a series of documentary shorts about the subway as a place and space, as a character
Making 'Making Legible' Legible—finding relationships within a corpus written across two years with idiosyncratic versioning
Controllers for Pong—new forms of interacting with a familiar game
— Bits and Pieces
Take Me To—understanding traceroutes through streetview imagery
A Music Controller To Be Felt—exploring a physical controller as an object to be held rather than seen
Classifying the Headlines—what types of words are used in the New York Times headlines and kickers?
Making A New Skeleton—connecting lines between joints that are otherwise unconnected in our physical reality
— Writing
Technology's Imagined Universal Body—reconsidering McLuhan's assertion of how technology extends the body
