Alex Proctor — Real-time media & fabrication
I build real-time media into physical space.
Real-Time
Generative video
Built in TouchDesigner, each piece generated to react to a track I chose. Screen-based, made to run.
Immersive Installations
Environments you walk into
Rooms built to hold a mood. Light, material, and staging worked until the space itself does the talking.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Immersive installation · paper, cord, light, paint
An immersive room. Red cord runs from a hooded figure to a large paper form, hand-painted banners hang overhead, and the whole space sits somewhere between a nursery and a crime scene.
Newsprint Bathroom
Built environment · photograph
A bathroom sealed wall to wall in newsprint and lit hard red with LED candles, a lone figure standing inside it. A built environment, shot from within.
The Waiting Room
Installation
Hand-drawn figures crawl around a plain doorway while small dolls sit watching from chairs, an ordinary room turned quietly wrong.
Sculpture & Fabrication
Made by hand, and by machine
Foam, steel, resin, cast forms. The range and the shop skill under everything else on this page.
Foam Figure
CNC-milled · mixed media
A life-size figure, CNC-milled, with other faces surfacing from its body and a single 3D-printed hand breaking the white. The piece sets the "normal" outward body of a person against the mental illness seeping out through the heads emerging from the shoulder.
Mannequin Puzzle
Mixed media · light, wiring
Five child mannequins, each built into a separate character out of mixed media, wiring, and light. Head, torso, and legs all interchange, so the figures recombine into new characters.
Wired Brain
Sculpture · cast forms, tubing
A brain form fed by IV lines and ringed by smaller brains on tubing. Clinical and a little tender.
Mirror Hand
Cast sculpture · mirror
A cast hand holds a palmful of broken mirror, offering back a version of your own face in pieces.
Rx
Sculpture · found object
Three prescription bottles, each holding a small figure suspended in amber. One label carries the maker's own name.
From the shop
Steel Study I
Welded steel
Steel Study II
Welded steel
Horned Mask
Fabricated metal · welded, painted
Resin Growth
SLA 3D print
Miniature Room
FDM 3D print
Photography
Staged, and a little off
Self-portraits and objects built around a single idea taken too seriously.
Apple Bites Back
Photograph
Playful as a Dolphin
Photograph · self-portrait
Slippery as a Fish
Photograph · self-portrait
About
I make real-time media and put it into rooms. My work runs from projection mapping and TouchDesigner to welded steel, cast forms, and 3D print, and most of it lives somewhere between a screen and a physical object you can walk around.
I trained in new media at the School of Visual Arts and have shown work in gallery and installation settings since. I care most about the moment where light, motion, and material stop reading as separate things.
- TouchDesigner
- MadMapper
- Projection mapping
- CNC milling
- Welding
- 3D print · SLA / FDM
- Casting
- Electronics · LED
- Photography
Selected exhibitions available on request.
