Carl Lange

Foreignments is a digital video art piece by Moran Been-noon, exploring themes of displacement, memory, and the politics of place. The project was commissioned for online exhibition by The LAB Gallery, Dublin. I was responsible for the technical implementation of the interactive browser-based version of the work.

The piece features a multi-channel video composition with layered audio, requiring careful handling of synchronisation, cross-platform playback quirks (especially on iOS), and user interaction. I built a custom frontend to support video/audio splitting, interactive layering, responsive design across mobile and desktop, and progressive enhancements like fullscreen handling and preload animation.

The final deployment was a portable static web app delivered to the artist for self-hosting at moranb.art/foreignments. All visual, conceptual, and editorial aspects were created by Moran Been-noon.

These two related works by Ellie Berry explored fragmentation, space, and perception through both still imagery and live, interactive installation. I was responsible for the software development.

Fractured Landscapes involved algorithmically reworking Ellie's landscape photographs by slicing them into horizontal and vertical bands and reordering those segments, creating disorienting, recontextualised compositions. The initial implementation was written in Mathematica, allowing Ellie to process and iterate on her images easily. I also developed a browser-based web app for image upload and transformation, enabling more accessible, real-time experimentation.

Fractured Space extended the concept into a live generative installation. A webcam feed was processed in-browser using optimised JavaScript with ArrayBuffers and low-level pixel operations to maintain performance. The resulting live "fractured" projection ran at 30fps in a Dublin city centre exhibition space (in partnership with Ormond Studios), initially showing gallery visitors in real time, then later repositioned to capture the view through the window. The installation was later shown as part of an exhibition at the Irish Arts Center in New York City, where it ran continuously on a Kindle Fire tablet throughout the exhibition period.

All artistic direction, concept, and curation by Ellie Berry.

Angelica Network is a volunteer-led initiative supporting women and minority gender artists and curators from under‑represented ethnic or cultural backgrounds across Ireland. I was responsible for implementing and maintaining the website.

The site was built with Meteor and includes a custom backend that syncs artist data from a shared Google Sheet, enabling non-technical updates to the directory. I handled all development and hosting, working to an existing visual spec.

This was a straightforward build with some bespoke backend logic. The project concludes in September 2025.

As part of our work on Tough Soles — the first documented walk of all 42 of Ireland's National Waymarked Trails — I developed a complete set of custom hiking maps using OpenStreetMap, government open data, and QGIS. The need for openly licensed, printable maps became clear during the project, as many trails lacked accessible or permissively licensed mapping resources.

Each map was designed specifically for offline use and is released under a Creative Commons licence. The full set remains, to the best of my knowledge, the only freely available map collection covering all National Waymarked Trails. The maps have been downloaded tens of thousands of times.

Cycle-to-School Scheme Report (2020): a speculative research and data visualisation project exploring the impact of a hypothetical cycle-to-school programme, based on cross-referenced public datasets.

Grapevine (2021): a prototype for a mobile AR experience using the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and National Monuments Database, designed to encourage real-world engagement with Irish historical sites. The project remained in an early exploratory phase and was paused indefinitely due to the pandemic.