Profile
Kyle Phillips is an artist interested in the balance between control and spontaneity. His works are collaborative toolsets, allowing others to take part in the creation of something new and to determine the evolution of continuous live projects. Kyle's work has been featured in the book Vormator: the Elements of Design and an article in Metro Magazine, where he was named the "Number One Up-and-Coming Artist" at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Kyle is currently an artist-in-residence at The Studio for Interactive Media in New York, where he is creating online and physical interface experiences.

Communication objective
www.engine.haptic-data.com is the culmination of a year-long project in algorithmic artwork. The application generates compositions that combine supplied assets, user settings, aesthetic rules, and a level of chaos to instantaneously create infinite artwork. My work often utilizes new media to create collaborative toolsets in which users have the ability to directly take part in my work, involving them on a variable level of authorship and allowing for the open-ended evolution of continuous live projects.

Tools used
I used Adobe® Flash® for all programming and development of the engine. I used Adobe Illustrator® to create the visual assets for the compositions and Adobe Acrobat® for saving the compositions as vector artwork.