Jack Kalish

Practice & background

Jack Kalish is a New York artist, engineer and creative technologist who runs Brooklyn-based Everything Good Studio with Rachel Ciavarella. Their public art, installations and experiential design use emerging technologies and treat audience participation as part of the artwork.

Small Hadron Collider lets participants launch LED “particles” by jumping and try to make them meet at the top of a loop. It translates an abstract physical idea into bodily play and was shown at Burning Man 2022, with subsequent presentations documented by Paseo and Illumination NYC.

In Who Art You, he introduces Allium, developed with Rachel: a flower-inspired audiovisual sculpture activated by strangers joining hands. He also discusses software-generated geometric prints and a pen-plotter photo booth, showing how digital rules become visible and participatory forms.

Looking at the work

Custom software, electronics and spatial design turn abstract systems into experiences shaped by participation.