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Personal projects and experiments.

Wiggle Warriors
https://wigglewarriors.fun/

A motion-controlled web game for my kids built with Bolt.new. This was an experiment to see if I could get to a fully-deployable app going prompt-first using only "low friction" vibe tools (i.e. no Cursor, Claude Code, or pre-design in Figma, etc). I succeeded!

Features

Motion Control: Uses webcam and pose detection for hands-free gameplay (TensorFlow)
Two Game Modes: Bubble Pop and Gopher Garden
Multiplayer Support: Multiple players can take turns
Global Leaderboard: Track high scores with Supabase integration
Child-Friendly: Designed specifically for preschoolers
Psychedelic Cumbia Soundtrack: 💃😵‍💫🕺

2025 Family Portrait // Photography + Compositing

ERNEST // An Emotionally Aware AI Art Installation
https://ernest.seanmulholland.com/

Originally a hand-coded physical art installation, I refactored + extended ERNEST for web + mobile using Claude Code.

ERNEST is from an era prior to ubiquitous data collection, so it needs you to help train the Happiness Model™ so it can learn what content makes people happiest. ERNEST uses computer vision to detect your face, and then reacts to you based on your facial expressions. He’s learning to understand emotions and how various pieces of content can affect your emotional expressions. Through ERNEST we hope to open a dialogue around the ethics of gathering the data used to train and validate models and the tensions around augmenting or automating decision making using imperfect data.

Brought to you by: Sean Mulholland + Matt Visco

Equinox Resonance // an interactive audio-visual experience for the spring equinox, built during the 2026 spring equinox on March 20, 2026.

Grant microphone access to let your voice and environment affect the visuals. Grant camera access to see your face rendered as a constellation of light. Built with sacred geometry, 432 Hz tuning, and the Pacific sunset in California.

The Data Void // A surrealist creative vibe coding 2-way conversational art project.

Halloween Block Party Flyer Design // Our neighborhood's annual event that attracts hundreds of people each year.

The PEEEPHOLE debuted at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Creative Code Showcase on March 30, 2016 in San Francisco, CA.

The peephole is a device that lets us see without being seen. Much like the internet. Yet even when our glances are innocent it’s something we’d rather keep private.By publicizing the viewer’s private act of viewing, he will be forced to confront his own sense of privacy, both online and off, as well as the simultaneous thrill and shame of voyeurism.

Built using:

Raspberry Pi
Custom built GPIO “Pi Hat”
Python codebase
Twitter API
Reclaimed Victorian medicine cabinet + hardware

Workshops + Talks

Building Trusted Relationships with Data, Dreamforce, SF, 2023
Cultivating a Hacker Mindset, California College of the Arts, (Remote) 2021
Design Thinking 101, Southern Oregon University (Remote), 2020
TechCamp Jericho, U.S. State Department, (Remote), 2020
Art+Tech Days Keynote, Kasárne Kulturpark, Košice, Slovakia, 2019
Language Without Words (Design Workshop), Košice, Slovakia, 2019
Beyond the Body, SwissNex @ The Consulate General of Switzerland, SF, 2019
Prototyping with Emerging Tech, California College of the Arts, 2019
Nightlife + Death, California Academy of Science, 2019
The Identity of Self, IDEO // ReImagine SF, 2018
A Face to a Name, Brava Theater, Ignite SF, 2017
TechCamp Ramallah, U.S. State Department, 2017
Headless Creativity, Marine’s Memorial Theater, Ignite SF, 2016
Beautiful Malfunctions, Brava Theater, Ignite SF, 2015

Publications

How You Can Help Product Teams Think Like Designers // Salesforce Design Blog
Designers Thrive at Building Team Trust — Here’s How // Salesforce UX
What Siri and Alexa might look like, according to artists // Quartz
No Beards Allowed: Exploring Bias in Facial Recognition AI // IDEO
The Digital Selves We Leave Behind // IDEO
When Identity is a Design Choice // IDEO Labs
Designing the Siris and Alexas of the World // IDEO
How to Experiment with 360˚ Video // IDEO
A Story in Every Direction // IDEO Labs

Exhibitions

ERNEST, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, 2019
ERNEST, San Francisco Art Institute, 2018
ERNEST, IDEO San Francisco Offices, 2018-2020
ERNEST, Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice, Slovakia, 2019
ERNEST, Kasárne Kulturpark, Košice, Slovakia, 2019
SONDER @ The Laundry, SF, 2017
Creative Code Showcase @ Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, SF, CA 2016
Real Future Fair @ Innovation Hangar, SF, CA 2015
Pancakes & Booze @ 111 Minna Gallery, SF, CA 2015
Surreal Salon 7 @ BRG CCA, Baton Rouge, LA 2015
Loud Tate: Code @ Tate Britain, London, 2014

iMac Photo Booth #Selfie Emailed to 1994 was selected to show in the Surreal Salon 7 @ the Baton Rogue Gallery Center of Contemporary Art – a monthlong show taking place in January 2015. A sheer-gloss print on a 12×12 aluminum panel makes this a rare occasion where a digital-centric work looks more interesting in real life!

111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco in 2015, Group Show

iMac Photo Booth #Selfie Emailed to 1994 (ASCII/ANSI technique)
So Close Self Portrait 00 (Google Deepdream Neural Net)
So Close Self Portrait 01 (Pixelated / Vecortized)
Steeples (Pixel-shifted glitch)