Gilgamesh: The Opera
Assistant Projection Designer
Projection Design Work
A few highlights. See the full set on the Projection page.
Storyteller, designer, researcher, and developer blending art and technology to build expressive systems including creativity support tools, lighting & projections, and interactive visuals.
I’m Siddharth Chattoraj, a Washington-based visual storyteller and creative technologist who builds immersive worlds and accessible creativity support tools for interactive storytelling. My work blends art, design, and computation across creative coding, data visualization, live performance, and wearable technology.
I have designed projections and lighting for live performances across the United States and around the world. This includes presenting live-programmable LED dance costumes at ACM SIGGRAPH and building projections for Gilgamesh: The Opera in California, TrollFest in Alaska, and Dance Fest Skopje as part of the UCSB Dance Company’s European tour.
I’m the creator of p5.chart.js, a data visualization library for p5.js, and Pattern Illustrator, a drawing and animation tool. These open-source tools make data visualization, drawing, and animation accessible to beginning artists and coders. My latest projects include teaching a workshop on creative coding with LEDs at the PNW Arts & Tech Symposium and creating Currents Between Us, a computational video artwork informed by geographic data, for Redmond Lights.
I hold a B.S. in Statistics and Data Science, a B.A. in Theater (Design), and a minor in Language and Speech Technologies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I graduated with Highest Honors and Distinction in Major. Across my practice, I develop tools and experiences that help my communities explore technology as a medium for creative expression and amplify underrepresented ideas and voices.
