Lucas Kuzma

Education

• MS Information, Communication and Audiovisual Media Technologies

  Universitat Pompeu Fabra . Barcelona, Spain . 2008

• MFA Design | Media Art

  University of California, Los Angeles . Los Angeles, CA . 2004

• BS Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence minor)

• BA Philosophy

  Case Western Reserve University . Cleveland, OH . 1996

Positions Held

• Founder . The Strange Agency . Los Angeles . 01 2009 - present

  Developing and designing music-oriented iPhone applications. These include the Sound Scope series of real-time touch- and motion-controlled synthesizers, Curtis, the first granular synth on the iPhone, and Sub Shredder, the speaker destroyer application. Responsible for all concepting, programming, and design direction. Generated 400k downloads to date.

• Boss . Philtre Com LLC . Global. 01 2007 - present

  Co-founder of experimental dance music net label, with over 20 releases. Responsible for operations as well as design and development of online marketing and virtual product packaging.

• Principal . Machinatus . San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York. 04 2001 - present

  Contract internet designer/developer with a decade of experience with Flash programming for established brands including Adidas, Adobe, P&G, Macromedia, Prudential, Ernst & Young, Pfizer, Redken, Absolut, HP, Inktomi, Altoids, Discover Card, Disney, Dwell, Ebay, Nabisco, and Nickelodeon. Utilized LAMP stack to deliver dynamic, data-driven websites with managed content, access control, targeted delivery, and extensive use tracking. Handled client-side, server-side, and database programming.

• Senior Interaction Designer . Novo . San Francisco . 01 2000 - 04 2001

  Headed interaction design and development at major online agency. Responded to RFPs, spearheaded interactive projects, established workflows, liaised with graphic design team. Used Flash and Director extensively to bring animation and interactivity to internet projects.

• Lead Programmer . Enlighten . San Francisco . 01 1999 - 12 1999

  Sole programmer on large-scale CD-ROM projects. Scripted Flash modules and created Flash/Generator workflows to automate timed content delivery for Disney Online.

• Multimedia Designer . Mozes Cleveland . Cleveland . 05 1996 - 11 1997

  Handled all programming tasks of this New Media startup, helping to rapidly turn a 2-man shop into a multi-million dollar company. Duties included programming Director, Authorware, IconAuthor, Java and JavaScript.

• Programmer . Digital Media Lab . Cleveland . 05 1995 - 05 1996

  Created a rights-managed text browser for viewing protected content over the Internet. Using Microsoft Visual C++ implemented DML rights access API into a desktop client application.

• Programmer . IBM . Rochester . 06 1994 - 12 1994

  Helped develop support tools on AS/400 mainframes, written in C with extensive use of TCP/IP.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant . University of California, Los Angeles . Los Angeles, CA . 2002 - 2004

  courses: Design and Society, Senior Project, Design Culture, Creative Use of the Internet, Games and Art

Research Projects

• Master's thesis at UPF

  Designed and implemented user interfaces for a real-time concatenative synthesis performance and composition system. Combined Flash with OSC to facilitate user interaction with a native audio mosaicking engine.

• Master's thesis at UCLA

  Created a population of autonomous, sound-making devices interacting with each other and with the sounds in their environment. Programmed all devices in C, using Atmel AVR microprocessors. Designed all circuitry. Used the Processing environment to create simulations of the network.