Where Art, Science, and Technology Make the Imagined Real

In 2016, Nokia joined forces with the historic Bell Labs to produce disruptive innovations that improve the quality of life. To demonstrate groundbreaking technologies, Nokia Bell Labs needed a groundbreaking theater. Moey created the Future X Emulator, specially commanded by a new sleeve device. A facilitator powers on and controls a 36-foot high, 270-degree projection. Audiences are immersed at once in visions of the future, complete with full-surround audio and a rumbling floor.

Connected Worlds is one of the largest, most complex responsive environments ever built for a museum. Created by Design I/O for the New York Hall of Science, with A/V integration and show control by Moey, it surrounds visitors with six fourteen-foot interactive screens fed by a thirty-eight-foot digital waterfall. Dozens of people can play at once, using simple gestures to shape living worlds, where every change ripples out to affect the others.

Google is preparing for the next hurricane, blackout, or large-scale disaster. The Emergency Communication Pod, designed and built by Moey for Google, restores communications anywhere networks have gone down. Lightweight, waterproof, and mobile, it runs on solar, battery, grid, or generator, charges 80 cell phones and devices at once, serves as a WiFi hotspot, and broadcasts HD video on a sheltered public monitor. Multiple ePods can also link together as a network, keeping people in touch when it matters most.

Big Mouth is one of the most popular attractions at Exploration Place, the second installation of its kind after the Children's Museum of Virginia. Retrofitted by Moey in close collaboration with The Science Museum of Western Virginia, and refined together over the years to add new lessons in dental health, it invites kids into a giant, tactile interactive. A monitor at the back of the mouth runs a find-the-tooth scavenger hunt, and because Big Mouth is so big, young people usually end up playing together.

For the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final, car maker Audi commissioned the assembly of a massive sculpture on New York City's East River: a towering array of shipping containers holding twenty-eight Audi A8 vehicles. The headlights, directed at Manhattan, were arranged to make numbers, as in a digital clock. Every time a goal was scored, the sculpture updated, alerting all of Manhattan’s East Side with a blazing show. Moey created the sculpture’s software and interface, which also allowed for non-scoreboard luxury effects, and engineered its power and wiring.

The Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) is dedicated to increasing people's understanding and appreciation of math. Moey created the gallery's centerpiece, Harmony of the Spheres, a sculptural interactive where touching illuminated spheres builds audible harmonies and reveals the patterns linking math and music. Moey also built Math Square, Formula Morph, Sixth Sense, and Logo Generator, exhibits that turn fractals, algorithms, shapes, and symmetry into something visitors can actually play with.

Jones Beach sits on the ocean side of Long Island, an accessible respite for the largest city in America. The Energy and Nature Center invites visitors to consider the park's dune and marine life alongside smarter uses of energy. Built by Moey and designed by AJA Architecture and Tactile Studio, the 53,500-square-foot indoor-and-outdoor experience includes aquaria, touch tanks, an immersive model "smart" home, solar-powered interactives, a climbable whale skeleton, and interpreted ADA walking paths.

As Senior New Technology Artist at AMNH, I conceived and led the development of a six-foot walking Tyrannosaurus Rex. Built by Hall Train Studios, the model walks precisely to a locomotion simulation created by Drs. Mark Norell, Stephen Gatesy, and John Hutchinson. The mechanism itself doubles as a mathematical model of how all terrestrial animals move.

Health Inside Out is a fun-time arcade where families learn about being healthy through rides, games, and amusements. Its presence in the 2,500sf Grand Hall has transformed an underutilized space into a must-do destination at the hub of the Exploration Place building. Visitors grab vaccine hammers to play Whack-A-Virus, and aim for healthy targets in Nutrition Skeeball. They ride an Emotional Roller Coaster through their feelings, fly a real helicopter ambulance, and much more. Being healthy makes it possible to experience life. Learning about it should be fun.

The Battle of Blackwater Bay was the first large-scale war sequence in the award-winning HBO series, Game of Thrones. The Blackwater Bay Experience gave fans the opportunity to fight in the battle on the side of the Lanisters, defending Kings Landing against the invading Baratheon navy. Participants in a theatrical castle setting drew back the strings of enormous archery bows and fired virtual flaming arrows at ships in the bay on screen. The experience traveled to cities around the world, from New York to Amsterdam, Belfast, Toronto and Sao Paolo.

As Senior New Technology Artist at AMNH, I designed You Bend Space-time in collaboration with Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Visitors approaching a wall warp space-time as if they were massive objects, discovering through experimentation the rules that govern it. The experience delivers a visceral understanding of general relativity, a concept notoriously difficult to teach through traditional methods.

The Interactive Garden is a composition of 3D-printed flowers that respond to proximity and motion, answering visitors with sound, light, and shifting color. Longer stays and bigger crowds unlock new rewards. Designed and built by Moey, the Garden can stretch up to twenty-four feet and feature 100 interactive flowers, reconfigured each time to suit its host. It has appeared at events including Adobe's Max Bash and the Macy's Flower Show.

The Injection Simulator gives healthcare workers a safe way to practice complex injections like those used in cervical dystonia and spasticity. A soft-surface mannequin pairs with a technology-enabled syringe and an on-screen 3D anatomy visualization, giving practitioners real-time feedback as they work. Built by Moey for Ipsen, with the syringe and interface designed in collaboration with Blue Telescope.

The House of Walker event drew more than 1,700 guests over five nights in 2014. Moey worked with Havas Worldwide to create an interactive, communal Tasting Table, where a seamless 32-foot 4K animation responded to each guest's card with mystifying changes and details about the whiskey they were tasting. Simple buttons let guests share moments to their social accounts without ever reaching for a phone, keeping the night unbroken.

Hempstead Lake is a created body of water on Long Island, part of a natural watershed reaching the Atlantic. State and federal storm-resilience efforts have restored wetlands, replanted fields, and brought biodiversity back, all of which makes the watershed stronger. The Center's dynamically interactive exhibit, designed by Moey and built by Chicago Scenic, invites visitors to explore the engineering, the habitats, and where the two meet.

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum occupies a pier on the Hudson River and includes a legendary aircraft carrier. In the carrier's main hold, Moey designed and produced Heroic Journeys: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories, an 8,000-square-foot centerpiece exhibit that wove together multimedia, artifacts, and the ship itself. Visitors hear directly from heroes and their loved ones through activated artifacts and video theaters built into the existing ship architecture, telling deeply personal stories from a half century of American service, from WWII to Afghanistan.

Designed in support of President Obama’s “Educate to Innovate” mission, the Energy Lab enables the Army National Guard to bring STEM learning about alternative energy sources to high school youth across the U.S. Visitors first view a film inside a shipping container theater, and then, in a pop-up tent, engage with interactive games that explore the possibilities of wind, water, sun, and earth in producing energy. Real results are seen in the simulated city of Enegrytown. The entire experience, which debuted in Alexandria, VA, packs up and travels on one eighteen wheeler.

John Boyd Thacher purchased 300 acres of land to preserve it as it was. Now a state park since 1914, its new visitor center exhibits bring outdoor adventurers of all ages into a new story. Through a mix of traditional, interactive and fully immersive exhibits, visitors explore the park’s natural wonders, the forces that have shaped them over time and the conservation efforts that have maintained and made them accessible. Visitors get oriented to the park and head out on trails with an informed perspective of a place that is still taking shape.

Scientists have studied the lakes of Green Lakes State Park since the 1830s and they are still mystifying. The park also holds old-growth forests and a history threaded through the Erie Canal, the Great Depression, and WWII. When a 1940s boat house was converted into an Environmental Education Center, Moey designed and built its exhibits, anchored by a movable 3D map table with additional interactives on clean, simple rails.

Shirley Chisholm State Park sits on the eastern edge of Brooklyn, the second-largest state park in New York City, built atop two former landfills sealed in the 2000s and replanted with tons of soil and 33,000 native plants. Because the seals cannot be penetrated, the Education Center, designed by Moey and built by ARCH Construction and Design NYC, lives inside two shipping containers: one themed to land, one to water. Inside, visitors explore the park's history and its return to a natural state through hands-on interactives.

Grafton Lakes is a 2,500-acre state park with six glacial ponds in New York’s Capital Region. The region was heavily forested in the state’s logging era, and is now populated and economically vibrant. The park provides a “backyard” for the Region that protects the forest and the diversity of life within it. To raise people’s awareness of the park’s biodiversity and their own opportunities to protect it, Moey created a multi-generational exhibit in the park’s new visitor center. The exhibit sets an array of interactives and displays in a built representation of the park’s habitats, and features a 500 gallon turtle tank.

AT&T's corporate briefing center in Bedminster, NJ, exists to show top clients and executives what the company actually does for its customers. When AT&T upgraded the center to keep pace with accelerating technology, Moey was brought in to design a suite of playful environmental interactives. The result includes large multi-touch tables where visitors explore the principles behind consumer technologies together, and a dynamic game on a shared circular screen where players make connections across a data-driven business ecosystem.

American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition took National Constitution Center visitors back to a dangerous, thrilling era. Moey created three immersive experiences to complete the journey: a Speakeasy Door, where a shifty-eyed virtual doorman let visitors in if they nailed the secret knock; a Police Lineup with a mugshot photo op; and Wayne Wheeler's Amazing Amendment Machine, a funhouse take on the 18th Amendment that blended kinetic sculpture with embedded video to make the legislative process genuinely captivating.

The W. M. Keck Observatory operates two massive telescopes on the peak of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, where minimal atmospheric turbulence and pioneering technology deliver incredibly precise images of outer space. To bring those telescopes to a mainland audience, Moey produced an exhibit anchored by a scale model that lets visitors look inside and consider the remarkable mirrors, which shift shape 2,000 times per second. An accompanying video, shot by Moey on Mauna Kea, offers rare views of the telescope at work in its towering landscape.

Magical, electro-mechanical, and digital, where worlds collide. Build a Rainbow is a collaborative, carnival-style interactive designed by Moey for Gulliver's Gate. Three players work three cranes, dropping balls into spinning color buckets that send helicopters, balloons, and cranes scrambling to lift pieces of a hidden rainbow into place. You can finish it solo if you are skilled and very lucky. Finish it with strangers and the whole thing erupts in lights, music, and a cheer that makes everybody in the room turn around.