Jordan East

CV

 

Experience

I am currently working as a freelancer working between London and Sydney. My work accommodates a wide range of media, including interaction, systems and visual development for real-time applications such as TouchDesigner, Unreal Engine and Unity - I also create music videos & content for musicians and music festivals, and provide VR /AR, motion graphics and editing work for studios, PR agencies and corporations. Here are a few of my previous roles:

Realtime Artist
Tilde Visual
October 2021 - Ongoing Partnership with Pat Younis

REEL

  • Developing VR experiences for a variety of clients including the Royal Australian Airforce, FILA, Sydney Maritime Museum and Syngenta. Working alongside studios such as Fin Design & Effects, Eyejack, Friendslike.co, Box of Birds and the 3D Visualization Lab @ UNSW

  • Developing visual content for touring musicians (RUFUS DU SOL, Flight Facilities)

  • Collaborating with artists to create interactive installation art for galleries and public projects.

Associate Artist
Big hART
December 2020 -

I have been working alongside the team at Big hART on many of the amazing projects they conduct across Australia. Big hART’s work sheds light on invisible stories, bringing hidden injustice into the mainstream, through authentic, high-quality art made by professionals, with communities.

My role in these projects includes:

  • A/V content design for theatre - creating content for dynamic and interactive theatre shows, using tools such as TouchDesigner and Unreal Engine 5

  • Installing and operating multi-projector / multi-surface shows

  • Running workshops in communities and with young people to teach digital skills such as photography, videography, editing, photogrammetry and introductions to game engines

  • Bringing illustration, music and stories created by community to life through animation

Unity Artist
Alt.vfx
September 2019 - November 2019

  • Developing procedural animation systems and working in Unity’s Visual Effects Graph and Shader Graph

  • Texturing and Lighting for HDRP in Unity

  • Rendering and compositing video out of Unity

AV Systems and Content Designer
Big hART
April 2019 - August 2019
In 2019 I worked on SKATE by Big hART - a commerical theatre production that brings the art of skateboarding to the stage through percussion, projection and performance.
My role as AV Systems Designer was to create the motion tracking system & interactive content for the show. This included motion-tracking skateboarders, projection mapping and audio-reactive content triggered from the microphones places on the skaters feet and throughout the set.

Big hART is an Arts for social change company that tackles disadvantage through projects such as SKATE that bring invisible stories foward in society.

My role as AV Systems & Content Designer consisted of:

  • Designing a system in TouchDesigner that facilitated motion tracking, audio analysis, and graphical content generation.

  • Rigging camera and lighting gear to facilitate motion tracking.

  • Designing a system to communicate with LX to send tracking data to activate LED strips on set.

  • Working closely with the directors and skateboarders on a visual language for the show.

Editor
yeahsure.
August 2016 - August 2019
My role as Editor at yeahsure included:

  • Video Editing (Premiere Pro)

  • Motion Graphics (After Effects)

  • Visuals & Projection Mapping for Live Music events (Resolume Arena, Touch Designer)

  • Multicam Live Streaming (Wirecast, Blackmagic Video Utilities)

  • Cinematography & Photography

  • 3D Graphics (Cinema4D, After Effects)

yeahsure is a Sydney based content creation and brand design agency specialising in the production of video, photographic and online media for the music industry.

Professional Experience Project
Research Assistant to Scott Brown, Creative Robotics Lab, UNSW Art & Design
2017

  • Assisting in prototyping an interactive & modular dome system to be used in multi-sensory therapy.

  • Contributing to research of commercial applications & existing products in the space.

Video Editor
Found At Sea Films (Ideosphere Media)
August 2014 - December 2017

My role at Found At Sea consisted of:

  • Motion Graphics

  • Digital production: Graphic & Media design Video Editing

  • Video Production & Cinematography

  • Database management

 

Education

University of New South Wales / UNSW Art & Design
Bachelor's Degree, B Computer Science/ B Media Arts (Hons) · (2013 - 2017)

Tech

  • Unity 3D

  • Unreal Engine 5

  • TouchDesigner

  • Houdini FX

  • Blender 3D

  • Programming (C/Arduino, Java, Javascript, C# (Unity), CSS3, HTML5, Python, UE Blueprints)

  • Adobe Suite

  • Spark AR

  • Resolume Arena

  • Depthkit Motion Capture

  • Creative Programming & Peripherals (Kinect v2, Realsense, NIR cameras, Arduino, Processing, Three.js, Leap Motion, Max/M4L)

  • Music Production (Ableton Live, Reason, VCV)

  • Web design (Gatsby & a bit of squarespace templating)

Exhibits

Origin Collective Core Member
Origin is a Sydney based media artist’s collective focused on interactive art and technology. www.originart.xyz

ORIGIN MARLE - 4A Digital 2022

ORIGIN ‘PARRALELS’ - Kudos Gallery 2020

ORIGIN VIRTUAL - Kudos ‘Online’ 2020

WAVEFIELD 001 - Two-Flyes 2018

WAVES - Vivid 2017

UNSW Art & Design Annual 2017

I LOVE YOU - Vivid 2016

VIBRANCE - Please Do Not Touch The Art 2016

Media

SKATE
https://www.bighart.org/painting-with-light-the-tech-wow-factor-of-skate/

VIVID
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/art-architecture-design/unsw-heart-vivid
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/vivid-lights-and-music-festival-driven-by-sydneysiders-fear-of-missing-out-20160526-gp4i8g.html