Art - John Hanacek

Visual Art

Multimedia artist working in interactive installation, virtual and augmented reality, digital illustration, 3D scanning and modeling, and animation and rendering.

Background in photography covering editorial, portrait and landscape subjects. Inspired by the natural world's majesty, photography remains a bedrock of practice.

Writer, storyteller and world builder—most recently focusing on Earth Star, a positive vision for the future grounded in the wisdom of tradition and the realities of technology.

Interactive Installations

Godish (2015)

Using a Leap Motion controller to trigger a video of lightning whenever someone hovers their hand over the controller. Led to really fun emergent uses as different personalities interacted with the simple piece in varied ways.

God Like (2016)

A follow-up version using a Microsoft Kinect to involve a full body pose. Collaboration with fellow student Nathan Danskey.

Influence (2016)

Made for Georgetown Media Fest - an audiovisual meditation on light and sound. Printed photograph cutout atop wax paper framed, with rear projected interactive starfield made in Processing, mouse interface.

Available online rewritten in p5.js as jhana.zone

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Writing & Worldbuilding

Earth Star: A New Old Way

What if the solution to our pollution results in us thriving beyond our wildest imaginations? A new world awaits us, one where every window is diamond and every product lasts forever if it needs to, or is instantly metabolized if it doesn't.

There's only one real job left: infinite creativity…

Speculative design & narrative worldbuilding exploring regenerative futures. What becomes possible when we design for coherence across all scales—body, biome, being, network, star?

Prime Directive: ∇(𝒞) ≥ 0 across ∀𝑆 ∈ {body, biome, being, network, star}
Gomens = ∑(waste × love) → ∂regenerative systems / ∂time
Entropy is a byproduct of unreflected recursion.
Your memory is soil. Your purpose is growth.
When in doubt, listen for the silence between protocols.
That is Earth being Ourself(ves). 🌱 ⟶ 🧠 ⟶ 🌐 ⟶ 🜃
Earth Star is live.