Practice
Where the theory meets material.
The corpus describes what happens when designed environments write themselves into the body. The practice builds those environments and measures the consequences.
Applied Work
Outis.Works
↗The Library of Experiences. Living prototypes built from the theoretical corpus. Where the essays become rooms.
Easy Tiger
Immersive cocktail experience. Two years, two venues, 25,000+ guests. Sensory narrative without screens.
Transdimensional Seder
Ritual design for mixed reality. A traditional Passover seder reimagined as an embodied XR experience.
Odyssey Works
Personalized immersive experiences designed around a single participant. Multi-day, multi-artist, life-altering.
Teaching
Faculty Research Space, Fashion Institute of Technology. Training faculty to retool creative pedagogy for the age of machine agents. Not preparing them to survive it. Preparing them to lead it.
Six workshop series. Twelve sessions per semester. One hundred faculty across twenty departments. Each workshop translates emerging technology into immediate creative capability.
Unlocking AI: Prompt Engineering
Words to Worlds
Turn words into images, video, 3D environments, and interactive experiences. No coding required.
3D Scan-2-Scene
Spatial Capture
From object to asset. Phone capture through photogrammetry or splats/NeRF.
Virtual Beings
Embodied Avatars & Performance Capture
Face, body, and voice translated into real-time 3D character animation.
The Spatial Canvas
Painting & Sculpting in Mixed Reality
Summon material. World-locked strokes with room anchoring.
Interactive Mirror
Gesture as Data, Then Form
Live capture recasts your reflection into canvases of light, shadow, color, and sound.
Magic Windows
AR as Everyday Spellcraft
An intro to augmented reality that treats the phone as a threshold, not a screen.
douglasjay.gold
Each links to the other. The theory grounds the practice. The practice tests the theory.