Rebecca Bray
New Media Interaction Design

Contact: bray dot rebecca at gmail dot com

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Art Director, Interaction Designer, Animator,
Webby-Award Winning Web Designer
specializing in new media for non profits.



For information about my most recent projects, please visit
the site of my company, Submersible:

Submersible Design



A short selection of my projects:

Botanicalls: Facilitating plant-nature relationships through technology. Plants communicate their needs by placing phone calls, and people can call plants to learn more about them. It works through sensors, microcontrollers, and wireless technology, plus an Asterisk-based phone system. A collaborative project at ITP.
water Plantopia: Museum Design and Interactive Education: Plantopia was part of my thesis. The project is a museum concept that examines how interactive new media can be further used to educate people about environmental issues, specifically plant science.
Sustainable Art & Technology Research: I served as Sustainability Facilitator at Eyebeam, helping to curate programming and develop collaborative projects about sustainability through art and technology.
The Meatrix: I am Co-Executive Producer of the online flash animation and Webby Award winning web designer for the Meatrix website. My work on the project includes design, illustration, project management, art direction, script editing, interaction design, and marketing.
Interaction and Animation for Non-Profits: Project Management and Creative Direction for a variety of multimedia projects. Includes work for the Audubon Society of New York and American Museum of Natural History. I served as Art Director for Sustainable Table and GRACE 2001-2006.
Imps: Interactive animated environment created with Flash, Max MSP & Jitter, and camera tracking. A community of 3-inch shadow figures react to your movement and voice.
Live Video Performance and Installation: With the Glass Bead Collective, live manipulation of video on inflated environments.
Design and Illustration: Rebecca has created hundreds of illustrations and designs for clients. Here are some illustration examples. Here's a meditative little flash interactive for you.


Please contact me for a full portfolio or more information about any of these projects.

News:

12.1.07: Recent panels I've spoken on: American Society of Landscape Architects: Change Agents, and Just Food Good Food Conference: Online Marketing using New Media.

10.18.07: My interactive animation for the Water show at AMNH is complete! The show will open at the museum on November 3rd and an online version will be available soon after.

09.28.07: Submersible Design, the company that Britta Riley and I founded, just completed a web plan for the Smithsonian.

08.05.07: This Friday, Aug. 10, I'll be on a panel about culture jamming at John Jay College.

07.08.07: Interaction for Museums: Right now I'm working on an interactive animation for the American Museum of Natural History and a plan for a new web site for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

04.29.07: Botanicalls in the New York Times and Time Out New York! More press here. Also, have I mentioned our new videos on the Botanicalls site?

04.27.07: Materialite, a proposed website for green products, was a semifinalist in the Stern Business Plan Competition. We're working on development of the site, beta to be released by end of summer.

03.27.07: Trendsetters Conference
I and the rest of the Botanicalls team served on a panel this past weekend at the Trendsetters Conference. We talked to teenage girls about our various projects and about art & technology in general.

03.14.07: Botanicalls Press and Festivals
Botanicalls has had some great feedback recently. The project was featured on the BBC as well as a bunch of blogs, and we are invited to the Maker Faire in May. More info on the Botanicalls site.

03.06.07: Meatrix on DVD
All three Meatrix movies are included on the DVD of Fast Food Nation!

02.20.07: Materialite
I'm working with a group to develop a business plan for a website focused on green issues, and there are some exciting possibilities for how people might share information on the site. My social facts class with Clay Shirky has provided a great background for thinking about the future of Web 2.0 and user-focused design.