Creative Technologist

Pim Tournaye

improvisation · creative tech · interaction

↳ brussels

Semantic Currents

Data visualization mapping 44 years of NYU ITP thesis projects through semantic similarity—2,744 projects clustered by meaning rather than medium, simulated as Physarum slime mold forming pathways between discourse communities.

2025 ongoing

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Data Visualization

word soup

10-minute dome video art powered by ASCII rendering—using NLP to extract semantic properties from Alan Watts and Italo Calvino, visualized as word-agents in a petri-dish simulation exploring how machines hallucinate meaning.

2025 completed

Music

Improvisational Syntax

A virtual improviser that learns and mimics human musical vocabulary in real-time, exploring radical transparency in human-machine co-creation through free improvisation.

2024 completed

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Performance

WAVE.

Custom pendulum instrument using three swinging wooden blocks as musical interface—dividing sine wave motion into four-beat bars to trigger samples and modulate parameters in Ableton, inspired by Steve Reich's phasing and pendulum music.

May 2024 completed

Web

Jazz Hands

Participatory choir piece where audiences conduct their phones like instruments—using gyroscope and accelerometer to play jazzy chords together, inspired by Jacob Collier's audience performances.

2024 completed

Performance

Mimikry: EXOMOON

10-night immersive theater production at Theater Neumarkt exploring humanity's future beyond Earth—served as one of three artistic directors, handling music/audio and co-developing the overall production.

2023 completed

— currently thinking about

Digital gardens
Playing with embedding and word vectors, and what interfaces can benefit from them
The desktop interface, and why it hasn't changed
Live programming, live coding, state and monads
How to teach people in the GPT era
Tabletop roleplaying games and what we can learn from them as improvisers

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