[2025]

I’ve spent years wrestling with relentless sinus problems. I’ve acumulated a substantial folder of CT scans, MRIs, doctor’s notes, each a close-up dissection of every corner in my face. Recently, I’ve felt particularly overwhelmed and wanted to transform these unsettling documents and scans into something I can interact with, and play with. 

This particular work scrolls through my CT-scan slices with a simple hand-tracking setup. A pinching motion lets me flip through layers of tissue and bone, and finger rotation swaps between views (front, top, profile).

I gently excavate what once felt alien into something I can touch, move, and slowly understand ~ it almost feels as though I am brushing away the fog that’s settled into these little caves within my skull.

And, in a strange way, I find comfort...

personal medical documents

software → TouchDesigner

captured → magda gourinchas

[2025]

How Many Birds Would It Take to Carry My Shadow is an immersive, generative installation that reimagines the weightlessness of our shadows. Inspired by the fluid, collective intelligence of bird murmurations that seem to defy gravity, I began to see my shadow not as something fixed to the ground, but as a swarm: millions of birds rising, scattering, colliding, ultimately released of the contours of my body.

Using a depth Kinect camera, the work captures bodies in real-time, translating their silhouette into point clouds that dissolve, drift, or snap into formation in response to live jazz. As people move, and as the music shifts, their shadows disintegrate and reassemble. The work becomes a living murmuration, co-choreographed by human gesture and sonic improvisation.

software → TouchDesigner

hardware → Kinect V1

sound → AMG

captured → magda gourinchas & Stephan Zyngier