Pim Tournaye
Creative Technologist & UX Designer
Creative technologist and UX designer working at the intersection of art, code, and human experience. I build interactive systems, data visualizations, and experimental interfaces — from real-time musical improvisers to semantic knowledge gardens. Currently designing public sector services at Deloitte Digital and teaching at NYU Tisch. Open to research positions, creative technology roles, and collaborative projects that bridge technology, art, and science.
Experience
UX Designer
Deloitte Digital · BrusselsUX Designer and prototyper on public sector projects, designing and testing digital government services. Working across research, interaction design, and high-fidelity prototyping.
Research Resident & Instructor
NYU Tisch School of the Arts · Brooklyn, NYResearch resident at NYU Tisch IMA Low Res (2024–2025), teaching physical computing, creative web development, and NetArt while mentoring thesis students. Now supporting the program seasonally as an instructor.
Creative Technologist
SEADSMember of the SEADS Collective, working on ArtScience projects as a creative technologist and artist.
https://seads.network/member/PimStudent Representative
Erasmushogeschool BrusselHeld multiple leadership roles including Student Council member, Executive Board member, Education Committee member, FabLab Ambassador, and Vice-President of General & Department Student Councils.
Education
Master of Arts – Interactive Media Arts
NYU Tisch School of the ArtsSelected for NYU Tisch's global IMA program, studying interactive media through immersive intensives in New York, Berlin, and Shanghai.
BA Multimedia & Creative Technologies
Erasmushogeschool BrusselSpecialization in Digital Making — working with microcontrollers and interactive physical systems.
Jazz Drums
Koninklijk Conservatorium BrusselStudying under Lionel Beuvens and Pieter Bast.
Selected Projects
NYU IMA thesis. A virtual improviser in Node.js that learns and mimics a human performer's musical vocabulary in real-time, enabling genuine human-machine co-creation in free improvisation.
word soup
10-minute dome video art using NLP to extract semantic properties from Alan Watts and Italo Calvino, visualized as word-agents in a petri-dish simulation. ASCII-rendered, collaborative with Adeline Setiawan.
Semantic Currents
Data visualization mapping 44 years of NYU ITP thesis projects through semantic similarity — 2,744 projects clustered by meaning, simulated as Physarum slime mold forming pathways between discourse communities.
Interactive system bridging audience-performer dynamics in improvised music through technology-mediated participation. Nominated for Best Smart Technology Project 2022 at EhB.