Creative Director & Technologist — New York

Russell Cooper

Working at the intersection of AI, spatial computing, and experiential design, with a research practice rooted in interactive installation.

Recognition Clio Award ×2 — Guinness World Record
Education MFA Digital Arts, Pratt Institute
Experience 6 Years Creative Direction
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01 Work
Experiential Environmental Design Animal Planet

Puppy Bowl XXII

A living room dropped into a JFK terminal, so travelers could stop, sit down, and go home with a dog.

Experiential Environmental Design Netflix

Roommates

A converted shipping container dressed as a college dorm room, deployed at three universities to promote Sadie Sandler's debut Netflix film.

Experiential Event Production Puma × Stewie30

Puma Hoops

Transforming a Brooklyn warehouse into the first-ever Stewie30 Training Camp for the top 30 high school girls basketball players in the country.

Brand Systems Web Photography

Ronpak

Full brand system redesign for a world-leading packaging manufacturer, built entirely from the constraints of a logo we could not change.

02 Lab
2025 — Ongoing

Audio­Topo­graphy

Ambient crowd sound drives real-time topographic projection onto a rock formation. Exhibited at LIC Arts Festival, Long Island City.

TouchDesigner GLSL Projection Mapping Generative Audio
2025

Invisible­OS

Gestural interface controlled entirely via hand tracking. No visible hardware. The system walks users through a tutorial before deleting all their data and restarting.

MediaPipe p5.js JavaScript Projection
2025 — Ongoing

Signal Jammer

Live adversarial noise pipeline targeting machine vision. GLSL perturbation fed into StreamDiffusion, composited with a live edge detection ghost overlay. Commentary on surveillance and visibility.

TouchDesigner StreamDiffusion GLSL Edge Detection

About
Russell

I am a creative director who got into this because I was genuinely obsessed with what technology could do to a room, a crowd, a moment. That obsession has not gone away. It just has a longer client list now.

I have spent six years at the intersection of brand and experiential work, directing projects for Puma, Netflix, HBO, Animal Planet, Paramount and so many more while maintaining a parallel practice in interactive installation, adversarial machine learning, and generative audiovisual systems. I lead teams and I also make things. Both matter to me equally.

I am completing an MFA in Digital Arts at Pratt Institute, where my research focuses on what happens when you point a machine at the real world and ask it to listen. The answer is usually more interesting than the machine expects.

I build things I cannot find anywhere else, and I look for collaborators who want to do the same.