Abe Burmeister creates solutions. His process of intensive immersion draws upon design, anthropology, economics and network theory to develop innovative ways to solve problems. In 1999 he co-founded One Infinity, an animation studio that developed cartoons with Disney, Shockwave.com and MCA Records and an award winning animated website for Frog's Leap Winery. After leaving One Infinity in 2003 he obtained a masters degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, wrote a book on alternative approaches to economics,
Economies of Design and Other Adventures in Nomad Economics, and has been developing real time data visualization tools for stock trading. His blog is
www.abstractdynamics.org.
His
resume can be downloaded here.
I designed the cover and internal layout of
Economies of Design and Other Adventures in Nomad Economics. I also designed the website:
nomadeconomics.org. And yeah I also wrote the book, but that's slightly beyond the scope of this site.
I am presently designing interfaces for live stock data for use by the traders at Aurora Technologies. I am currently under NDA and can not say much more here, but the work will probably enter the patent process soon, at which point hopefully I can show people what I have been doing.
abstractdynamics.org is my weblog and home to much of my writing on design, technology and culture. Of course I designed the logo and developed the site.
I also host a small network of blogs, including those of New Yorker writer
Sasha Frere-Jones, feminist rock critic
Jessica Hopper, the renegade theorist
K-Punk, Poet Joshua Clover aka
Jane Dark, and
Hyperstition a group blog founded by the Iranian intellectual Reza Negarestani.
The Future Perfect is the renowned store at the center of the new brooklyn industrial design scene. I developed a prototype for a hybrid ecommerce and social networking system for them, maybe one day it will see the light of day.
A big game played on the city streets using the "fermented technology" of the payphone infrastructure. Designed with Greg Trefry and a team of six for Frank Lantz of Area/Code. It will be featured in the
Come Out & Play Festival in New York, September 22-24, 2006.
Globetime is an ambient networked object, a globe that talks to the atomic clock in Colorado and then translates time back into space, visualizing the time by emulating the light of the sun on the earth. Designed and prototyped with Carlos Borges for Tom Igoe, author of
Physical Computing
I founded One Infinity in 1999 with Seth Fershko. I served as CFO and Creative Director. We produced the first broadcast quality Flash music video, developed award winning immersive websites and optioned an animated TV show to Disney. The company was dissolved profitably in 2003.
Frog's Leap was one of the first organic and biodynamic wineries in the world, and they continue to make a world class product. At One Infinity I produced, programmed and art directed their award winning site, a humorous animated world that still stands out from the "fill in the box" websites of today.
Concrete Jungle was an animated television show that One Infinity developed and option to Walt Disney Television for development. Cyberpunk met skateboarding in the scripts, and we met the world of marketing to 'tweens' and Hollywood absurdity.
Reportista! never got far as a show, but it was my favorite one by far. "Tintin meets Lara Croft" was the Hollywood pitch. Non-violent, high-adrenaline action with a female hero and cool robots, how could it not happen? Well very little actually happens in Hollywood...
Short Bus was the last and by far the funniest animated show we pitched. It offended everyone, but man was it fun to develop.
The Saturation Engine is an animation software I designed, programmed and used to create a series of artworks that have been show across the US and in Europe. I also prototyped a physical interface designed explicitly for the program.
Logos was created by me and [sic] for the artists group 47. It is a piece of generative software that creates an infinite and ever shifting video piece by alternating and reconstructing corporate logos. It was licensed to DJ Spooky for use as tour graphics.
Flags was a live and controllable video piece commissioned by DJ Spooky for use as tour graphics.
I have built a series of programs for Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that he uses as tour graphics and during lectures. Several of which are listed above.
I created and programmed numerous websites for Arista Records for artists like Outkast, Whitney Houston, Avril Lavigne, Pink, Cee-Lo and Dido.
I created tour graphics and websites for artists like De La Soul and Capone N' Noriega.
