Vincent van Haaff (flyingoctopus) is a multi-disciplinary media artist and designer working with computer code to explore virtual spaces defined by rule-based systems. Originally from Southern California, he went from a record label co-founder and audio hacker in Los Angeles to a rock climbing/chard-growing hippie in Santa Barbara before moving to Vancouver to become a software developer and media artist. His expertise spans from data and music visualization to computer vision, sensor dev and user centred design.

Expertise in: Advanced Mathematics, Newtownian, Fluid, and Wave Mechanics. Expertise with platforms such as Flash(Actionscript 3/Flex), Processing (Java), HTML/CSS, Javascript, SuperCollider (C++), Max/MSP and Native Instruments Reaktor. Additional experience includes motion design and composting with Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro with Cinema 4D and Maya. Focus on Tangible Interfaces for visualizing data and new ways of interacting with sound.

Specialties: Arduino <=> Ableton Live, monome <=> ChucK, Computer Vision <=> Quartz Composer, Kinect <=> Cinema4D. Ruby <=> everything.

…and thats just for starters!