Torin Blankensmith
Project Fellow
Torin is a creative technologist, real-time graphics artist, and educator focused on creating restorative mixed reality installations, interactive experiences, and open-source creative tools. His work explores emerging techniques in real-time graphics pulling inspiration from systems and patterns of emergent behavior in nature.
He's currently the Associate Director of Technology at Studio Elsewhere. His work involves creating large-scale interactive and immersive environments for medical professionals to alleviate stress, for patients in clinical studies aiding in neuroscience research on brain recovery, and for children during their visits to medical centers to improve their rehabilitation process.
Torin is also an adjunct professor at the Parsons School of Design teaching at the MFA and BFA programs. His classes include advanced creative coding, foundations of TouchDesigner, and interactive and immersive environments with TouchDesigner.
Torin was a part of NEW INC year 6, and the Google Creative Lab 5 program. Previous clients include Mt. Sinai Hospital, The Nobel Foundation, Google Creative Lab, Lab at Rockwell Group, Leo Villareal, Vice, Adobe, and Microsoft.