Creative Coder Ferriss presents next IGNITE

calendar icon21 Apr 2021    

Lincoln, Neb.--Artist and creative coder Adam Ferriss will present virtually at the next IGNITE colloquium.

Ferriss’s presentation will be on Friday, April 23 at 12:30 p.m. via Zoom. The presentation is free and open to the public. Access IGNITE at https://go.unl.edu/ignitespring. Ferriss will be giving attendees a tutorial on Spark AR, an augmented reality software used to make face filters for Instagram and Facebook.

Ferriss, an artist based out of Los Angeles, has been featured widely in print and around the Web. His works have appeared as interactive installations shown at Google I/O, Nike and Coachella. 

He writes custom software to create websites, print media, and real time video effects, often employing the feedback loop as a digital agent of change. Some of his most recent works harness technologies like face tracking, neural networks / AI, and augmented reality to manipulate live camera and photographic imagery. 

He is currently working as a creative coder on augmented reality effects at Instagram. View his work at: https://amf.fyi/.