Douglas Jay Goldstein
I design experiences that change how people move, perceive and learn: metamorphoses on physical apparatus, music you learn with your hands, and places where many times are present at once.
Emerging Technology & Creative HCI, FIT · Faculty Research Space
Proteus: one body, eight apparatus. Each pair plays together: the body outside, the world inside the headset. Studies rendered from the piece's own engine.
Selected works
Proteus
Hand-tracked metamorphoses on physical apparatus. On a reformer, a sling or a rocking saddle, you become a fish, a bird, a serpent, a tree.
New Frame, November 2026 →Bouba and Kiki
A piano lesson led by your own hands: one becomes a round creature, the other a spiky one, and together they learn to play.
In developmentWeft
Loom, the 1990 adventure, rebuilt in virtual reality and played on the Distaff: aim it to choose one of eight notes, pluck to sound it, and four-note drafts change the world around you.
Played on the Distaff →Place, archive, AIHere
Stand somewhere and surface what happened there. A place's other times open like frames in the one you're standing in.
Prototype →Listening essay, spatial soundThe Fold
Thirty-two transformations of Alvin Lucier's voice, given a place to approach, linger in and rearrange.
Ongoing since 2020 →Ritual for gatheringInterdimensional Seder
One table, twelve worlds. A shared ritual unfolds across fifteen moments and twelve interpretations.
Playable →Interactive essaysOne World, Many Games
Visual essays and playable experiences: the thaumatrope, the hand, the court, the room of four tellings.
Collection →The practice
- Bodies
- XR and apparatus that change how people move and perceive, and what a body can become.
- Proteus
- Learning
- Music and making learned through the hands, and teaching emerging technology as cultural practice.
- Bouba and Kiki · Weft
- Access
- Disability and neurodiversity, from building VR for autistic learners at Floreo.
- Place and time
- Many times present in one place, through archives, AI and Gaussian splats.
- Here · The Fold
- Play and ritual
- Games, scores and rituals that gather people and hand them the telling.
- Interdimensional Seder · One World, Many Games