Exhibition · Est. San Francisco
Software engineer painting with code — M.Eng Computer Science, Cornell University
psst — your cursor is a brush. paint the walls.
Begin the tourRoom I
Skylar Hoffman works in two studios at once — the San Francisco Bay Area, where he grew up, and the quiet discipline of the machine. He took his B.S. in Computer Science from UC Irvine and his M.Eng in Computer Science from Cornell University, where his fascination with AI and machine learning deepened into a practice: building intelligent systems that learn, adapt, and occasionally surprise their maker.
His pigments of choice are Python, C++, C, and SQL, with a full wash of web work — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React — when a piece needs to live in the browser. When he steps away from the easel he bowls, shoots archery, plays guitar, and chases the particular joy of a hackathon weekend, where rough sketches become finished works before sunrise.
“Every system is a composition — I just choose the colors.”
Room II
Pigments mixed over years of making — go on, tap one.
Room III
Selected works, hung with care.
No. 2
Reinforcement learning · Python · Minecraft
2021
A Minecraft AI taught with reinforcement learning to traverse complex terrain and find its way to a destination — a small pathfinder that learned the landscape brushstroke by brushstroke.
View work — Moogle Maps
No. 3
Neural style transfer · Chrome extension · HackUCI
2020
Hover over any image while browsing and watch it repainted in the style of a chosen artwork — give Google Images the brush of Van Gogh's Starry Night.
View work — Lyffe Style
No. 4
Real-time audio · Web
2020
A low-latency musical collaboration space, built so friends could keep playing together through quarantine — a duet across the wire.
View work — The Musick Space
No. 5
Auto-bidding · MongoDB · Chrome extension
2020
An eBay bidding queue: list the items you'd settle for, and it bids on whichever is cheapest, moving down the list as you're outbid. Awarded Best Use of MongoDB at Caltech's HackTech.
View work — Syrup
No. 6
React · Google Maps API · Weather API
2020
An interactive atlas of weather anywhere on Earth — point to a coastline, a mountain, a city, and read its sky.
View work — SkyProjectAnnex
Smaller pieces from the flat files.
Columns — a Tetris-like game in Pygame — and a Tkinter ball-physics simulator.
View work — Python Studies
An IGTV cooking series shot and edited during a Sun Basket internship — proof the eye works in video, too.
View work — Sun Basket