Toby Harris
Artist at D-Fuse
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolToby Harris is a multidisciplinary artist-engineer with 14 years of experience designing immersive live-event experiences that blend art, design and systems engineering. Based in Bristol, he combines creative practice at D-Fuse with hands-on product and platform development—shipping audience interaction features, streaming engines and serverless content pipelines at startups like Volta XR. He founded *spark live and brought the compact two-channel d-fuser video mixer to market, overseeing hardware, software, UX and fulfilment. His background spans realtime video techniques, Mac OS systems integration and large-scale event production, informed by an MA in Industrial Design and PhD work in Media and Arts Technology. Known for treating liveness as a design constraint, he bridges VJ culture and robust engineering to transform how audiences engage with performance. Beyond performance rigs, he quietly specializes in CI-driven Unity build pipelines and serverless publishing workflows that keep creative tools production-ready.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, 2:1, BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, 2:1 at The University of BirminghamPhD, Media and Arts Technology, PhD, Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary, University of LondonMA Industrial Design, Distinction, MA Industrial Design, Distinction at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
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Github Skills (200)
webview10
canvas2d10
web-animations-api10
easing-functions10
rendering-engine10
javascript10
rendering10
glsl10
animate10
easing10
high-performance10
music10
tween10
scene-graph10
interaction10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tobyspark/folk-rnn-webapp
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
A community application for the folk-rnn folk music style modelling project
Contributions:751 commits, 121 PRs, 272 pushes in 1 year 9 months
modellingmusicrnn
tobyspark/tobyz.net
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
my website, atomically
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes in 6 years 5 months
database-accessserenityfurryzmodemmodular
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