Kimberlee Swisher
Arizona State University — undergraduate programming & curriculum
Kimberlee Swisher is an educator working at the intersection of technology, music, media culture, play, making, and pedagogy. She is broadly interested in the intersections of play, arts, technology, and education.
ZenDen
An interactive space that responds with changing meditative sounds to movement — and stillness — of museum visitors inside a geodesic dome. Each bench adds a layer of sound; each layer moves along its own slow, unique path across a 10-speaker surround system, giving the soundscape a sense of movement and life.
ImageSTEAM
An NSF-funded program introducing AI and computer vision concepts to middle schoolers, through teacher professional development, curriculum co-creation, and classroom deployment at the 6th–8th grade level.
Creative Code YouTube Tutorials
75+ video tutorials on digital images, creative code, and Max MSP, built primarily for an undergraduate computational-thinking course.
youtube.com/kimberleeswisher →Soundscape
An interactive environment generating sound in response to visitor movement and position, tracked via Kinect inside a geodesic dome.
Digital Culture Summer Institute
An interdisciplinary digital media summer program for 7th–12th graders at Arizona State University.
AI Valentines
A generative AI + image-editing classroom project.
Winter Song
A music video with p5.js-driven visuals — a cover of an Ingrid Michaelson song.
Makey Makey Sampler
A Max-based sampler triggered by a Makey Makey.
DDR Dance Pad Instrument
A Max patch turning a DDR pad into a body-performed sampler.
"How does your body sound?"
A multiplayer, biosensor-driven soundscape game.