Theodore Koterwas

Theodore Koterwas seeks to make things resonate. He collaborates with scientists, researchers, academics, writers, artists and musicians to create art, installations, apps, music and events to engage people in novel and compelling ways.

In addition to his creative work, he is CTO of SuperRational Ltd, building the future of music. Previous gigs include leading the Web and Mobile Applications development team at the University of Oxford [projects], and directing New Media exhibit development at the Exploratorium [projects].

As a musician he played drums in several bands you've never heard of, and bass, samples and noisy electronics in a similarly obscure solo project The Foundling Wheel.

The Nth Wave

"Waves" of fake, AI-generated tide pool images wash over real tide pool images sequentially across multiple screens and connected devices

Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams

If we can look at people and barely notice them change into others, what does that say about how we really see them?

Somewhere In the Universe It Rains Diamonds (Aether)

As stars die they send out cosmic rays, which bombard and pass through us invisibly. The installation Somewhere In the Universe it Rains Diamonds (Aether) makes them visceral.

Skin | Wood | Iron

Skin | Wood | Iron listens. When someone in the world tweets one of these words, it plays it as a rhythm using the corresponding sound

Somewhere In the Universe It Rains Diamonds (Carbon)

An Artificial Intelligence that was trained on the handwriting of astronomers tirelessly scrawls data from stellar events onto a dusty wall of graphite.

Do Electric Birds Dream of Empty Tweets?

Electromechanical birds flock to the latest retweets and verify each other's movements on a “flock”-chain.

re-sOUnd

Smartphone app brings the University of Oxford's Musical Instrument Collections to life by providing playable versions of the instruments.

Sensing Evolution

An iBeacon powered scavenger hunt through the Oxford University Museum of Natural History around themes of evolution.