Eric Theise

Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and freelance geospatial software engineer. His current practice combines strategies from experimental film & animation, color theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry with open source software and open data to create digital maps that behave in ways never intended by their developers. He projects and manipulates these maps in performance with musicians and other time-based artists under the title A Synesthete's Atlas. After its Lisbon premiere in 2022, Theise performed in Minneapolis and a variety of East and West Coast cities. Early 2023 sees performances in the San Francisco Bay Area, Colorado from Fort Collins to Pueblo, and in Chicago, Madison, and Milwaukee. European and East Coast performances are in the works for later in the year. Theise's earlier 16mm experimental films have screened across the United States and Canada, and in France, and he’s performed as a vocalist with the Cornelius Cardew and Long Tone Choirs in various San Francisco Bay Area locations.