Rob Ray is an artist and Associate Professor of Design at California State University, San Bernardino, where he is currently researching the intersections of site-specific mixed-reality technologies and experimental documentary storytelling. He is also a DJ at KDZU, a fictional real radio station possibly based in Goldfield, Nevada. Rob was previously a lead designer for ProtoSpace, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's mixed-reality collaboration platform. Rob has also worked as a technical experience designer building mobile interfaces for Electronic Arts and Industrial Toys. From 1999 to 2008, Rob was the founding curator of the DEADTECH, a proto-hackerspace and electronic arts center in Chicago, IL.

 

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0:00 - Intro

0:35 - Chessex dice set: https://store.chessex.com:11552/IW_Products.m4p.pvx?;products_no_tree?company=chx

8:45 - Thrift stores: https://www.thethriftshopper.com/

16:47 - Koala sampling app: https://www.koalasampler.com/

22:34 - Open Library: https://openlibrary.org

29:10 - Antennaobscura: https://kdzu.org