Eduard Prats Molner
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Eduard Prats Molner

Creative TechnologistBarcelona, Spain
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Eduard Prats Molner
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Eduard Prats Molner

Creative TechnologistBarcelona, Spain
About me
Eduard works at the intersection of generative design, audiovisual creation, realtime graphics and interaction. He prototypes and builds pieces for installations and online experiences, primarily using modern web technologies. He collaborated with leading design studios and production companies such as FIELD, B-Reel and Hi-Res! among others. He was lead developer of City of Drones exhibited at The Digital Revolution (Barbican, London), Chris Milk’s award-winning Wilderness Downtown (Arcade Fire's Interactive Videoclip) and one of the WebGL developers on Google’s WebLab on-line and on-site exhibition at the Science Museum in London. He co-founded Resonate, new educational platform and a festival located in Belgrade, Serbia. Its aim, to bring together world class artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture. Eduard co-curated Resonate Conference in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and was lead curator and head of education in 2015 and 2016. Eduard also participated in exhibitions, workshops, lectures and events including Sónar, OFFF, Transmediale and Music Hack Day among others.
Projects
  • The xx Website
    The xx WebsiteI teamed up with Future Corp in London to create newest website for The xx. http://thexx.info/home/
  • Decentraland's Website
    Decentraland's WebsiteI was responsible of the development and tech direction of the Web GL scrolling hero and secondary WebGL elements along their integration with the rest of the site.
  • Chrome WebLab
    Chrome WebLabJocabola joined B-Reel to develop parts of the WebGL applications for Google’s WebLab exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The exhibition lasted for one year and was both available online and onsite. We collaborated with TellArt who was responsible of creating the robots and machines located at the museum. Karsten Schmidt was responsible of creating the ‘Tag Display Wall’ showing realtime user activity. Jocabola was responsible of creating the ‘Lab Tag Explorer’ and helped finishing the ‘Data Tracer’. All created in JavaScript, ThreeJS and GLSL.
  • The Wilderness Downtown
    The Wilderness DowntownJocabola was very lucky to join Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, B-Reel, Google and the amazing mr.doob and Jaume Sánchez to help building a HTML5 interactive video clip for Arcade Fire. Jocabola operated as a dev lead taking care of the general framework and created a sequencing tool that allowed the director to de ne the time sequence of windows (position and sizes) and their contents. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com
  • City Of Drones
    City Of DronesJocabola teamed up with FIELD to build an installation that was premiered at The Digital Revolution exhibition at the Barbican in London. The project was in collaboration with Liam Young and John Cale. Jocabola was responsible of building the WebGL Chrome App written in JavaScript, ThreeJS+GLSL and NodeJS. The production pipeline involved a set of custom scripts for parsing scenes and light maps generated in Houdini FX. http://cityofdrones.io
  • The Lagoon Of Floating Echoes
    The Lagoon Of Floating EchoesCelebrating a vinyl release by Doble Sol, Jocabola created a visual piece to accompany sound recording by Niki Neecke. The piece exists in various formats. It is available online as a realtime WebGL journey and as a prerendered high detail version. It was exhibited at Echo Bücher in Berlin during the of cial presentation of the vinyl. A larger version is available for installation. Online version: http://doblesol.cat/TLOFE
Work history
    Creative Technologist
    New York, United StatesFreelance
    My collaboration with B-Reel started back in 2010 when I joined as a developer lead for the Arcade Fire's award-wining interactive videoclip with Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, Mr.doob & the.spite. Since then I have collaborated with different B-Reel offices across the globe (London, NY, LA & Barcelona) in many projects including Google's WebLab exhibition at the Science Museum in London, CNN's 2012 US Election tracker / data visualisation tool, Viv's AI brain visualisation and many other projects with Google and other brands.
    Creative Technologist
     - London, United KingdomFreelance
    I collaborated with FIELD in various art and commercial installations mostly using JavaScript and WebGL and NodeJS as well as C++/OpenFrameworks. I was dev lead and created graphics engine for an art installation called 'City of Drones' that was exhibited at The Digital Revolution at The Barbican in London: http://cityofdrones.io For this project I created a production pipeline to import assets and settings from Houdini FX into WebGL/ThreeJS Chrome App.
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Skills
  • Webgl
  • Javascript
  • CSS
  • C++ Development
  • Openframeworks
  • Threejs
  • UX
  • Interactive
  • Visuals
  • Nodejs
Education
    Multimedia Engineering
     - Barcelona, Spain
    I was part of the first year's group of Multimedia Engineering at La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull. A new degree back then. We learned engineering foundations such as C++ / Assembly programming, electronics, numerical calculus, signal processing alongside graphics, interactive and web technologies.
Awards
    The FWA
    Site Of The Month for Google WebLab's online exhibition with B-Reel & Tellart.
    D&AD
    Google WebLab's exhibition with B-Reel & Tellart.
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