Contact: eyal.ohana [at] gmail.com

Eyal Ohana is an NYC based, interactive experiences designer, with a deep background in motion design, video production and storytelling. Recent works focus on marrying visual, motion and storytelling sensibilities, with interaction design in physical spaces, on large, screen-based installations. He uses technology as a creative tool, and explores the possibilities of natural interaction, using motion and gesture tracking as a means of unmediated interaction with immersive digital environments.

Eyal served the motion graphics and post production industry as an independent designer, animator and art-director. He’s worked with boutique studios in New-York, including Imaginary Forces, Tronic, Flying Machine, Adolescent, Bionic, AVSO. All, while maintaining personal projects, as electronic musician, video artist and in live VJ performances.

Personal and professional works expanded into creative uses of technology to create interactive experiences, at ITP in NYU.
After graduating from NYU, Eyal was offered to join ‘Inwindow Outdoor’, an innovative out of home advertising company, where he served as the design director, working with an agile development team and overseeing execution of  large scale interactive installations for ad campaigns, all around the US. These complex digital projects, correlate with different outdoor environments, and integrate mobile and social media into large scale interactive screens.
In his personal projects, Eyal explores the use of code and custom written software to generate responsive animations, displayed in physical environments that break the perceived boundaries between screens, and the context around them. His works were presented in art galleries, digital art festivals and featured in blogs and magazines.

Recently, Eyal was offered to join ITP at NYU as an adjunct professor, where he teaches about animation in the context of interactive and new-media projects.

Eyal holds a Bachelors degree from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and a Masters degree from ITP  (Interactive Telecommunication Program) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

When not in digital domain, Eyal is an avid musician and guitarist, and also likes to practice aikido, a traditional japanese martial art.