CRISTÓBAL SCIUTTO
a.k.a. Tobias Schutt and Toby Shooters
I build
tools
for wielding visual media at
Runway.
I studied
visual computing, applied math, media art,
and philosophy at Stanford. In the past, I worked on computer graphics research
(Vid2Player)
and interned at Flexport, Nubank, and Pagar.me.
Here's a
longer bio...
I'm from Brazil, Argentina, or Ohio. I've been living in
Brooklyn ever since my '98 Outback (Charly) exhaled his last
breath, mufferless. I work in graphics/vision to bring our
digital experience closer to the embodied material
world. I'm inspired by artists such as Myron Krueger and James
Turrell. I want to learn about Gestalt theory,
differential geometry, and fabrication but spend my time
watching skateboard parts. I enjoy listening to Spinetta and
Caetano, and reading about Portnoy and Funes. I love morning
commutes in crowded subways. A good party for me consists of
yellow plastic Skol tables, buckets of Original, and endless
banter. I often dream of a loft with modular furniture and an
industrial kitchen, maybe in the Copan. I have a Mario
Benedetti verse memorized for a moment that might never come.
My diary consists of reminders that the only rule is work along
with to do lists which I unsucessfully tackle in parallel. I
wish to have the world ready-to-hand. Keep cool but care.
You can reach me via
email or
@tobyshooters.
:wq
WORDS
These are some op-eds, ramblings, and notes.
Click here
to expand the library of books I've read in the past
couple of years.
PROJECTS
-
Vid2Player:
Turn broadcast tennis matches into
controllable 2D video sprites that appear and
play like star tennis
players.
(Publication accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics)
[Paper & Video]
-
Toys:
Ray marchers, lisp interpreters, 808 sequencer in
React, hacking legacy iPhone for AR occlusion,
generative shaders, neural textures, etc...
[Github]
-
TensorCheck:
Run-time validation of tensors for machine-learning systems.
[Github]
-
Foolish:
A short film about an interactive installation, put on hold due to
COVID-19. This project was my Honors in the Arts thesis.
[Video]
-
End-less: Kinetic sculpture. Found objects, CNC
machining, electronics and gears, woodworking, 3D
printing, and plaster casting.
[Images]
-
Adjustabase:
Adjustable baseplate for downhill skateboarding.
Machined manually from 6061 aluminum with sand-blasted
finish.
[Poster]
ENDLESS
Sculpture in motion.
Disassembled top view.
Spring mechanism.
Rotation mechanism.
WHO'S WATCHING?
Demo of installation in action.
ADJUSTABASE
Poster for project.
TODAS LAS HOJAS SON DEL VIENTO
El viento.
Display for final exhibition.
THE LIBRARY
This is a library of what I've been reading.
Favorites are in green.
2021
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth
- Making Movies, Sidney Lumet
- Bestiario, Julio Cortázar
- Cinematic Color, Jeremy Selan
2020
- Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich
- How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand
- Mathematics and the Imagination, Kasser and Newman
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike
- Story of the Eye, Georges Bataille
- Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
- Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes
- Rebel without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez
- V, Thomas Pynchon
- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- In the Blink of an Eye, Walter Murch
- In Praise of Shadows, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
- The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan
- Ways of Seeing, John Berger
- The World of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Todos Los Fuegos El Fuego, Julio Cortázar
- Concepts of Modern Mathematics, Ian Stewart
- Economics: The User's Guide, Ha-Joon Chang
- White Noise, Don DeLillo
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
- Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
- Seize the Day, Saul Bellow
- Conversations with Jean Piaget, Jean-Claude Bringuier
2019
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Against Everything, Mark Greif
- Production of Presence, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
- Un Filósofo, César Aira
- The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
- Barbarian Days, William Finnegan
- Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Perry Anderson
- The PhD Grind, Philip J. Guo
- How One Becomes What One Is, Alexander Nehamas
- The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
- Lives of Artists, Calvin Tomkins
- The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff
- The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virgina Woolf
- The Trial, Frank Kafka
- A Cidade e as Serras, Eça de Queiroz
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
- Lazarillo de Tormes
- Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
- Rainbow's End, Vernor Vinge
2018
- Essais, Michel de Montaigne
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- Death of Salesman, Arthur Miller
- 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, Matthew Frederick
- Truth and Lie in the Extra-moral Sense, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
- Out of the Tar Pit, Moseley and Marks
- Six Easy Pieces, Richard Feynman
- The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
- The Lessons of History, Durant and Durant
- What I Believe, Bertrand Russell
- At the Existentialist Café, Sarah Bakewell
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- Candide, Voltaire
- Mathematics, A Very Short Introduction, Timothy Gowers
- From Satori to Silicon Valley, Theodore Roszak
- Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
- Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
2017
- Communist Manifest, Marx and Engels
- Glimpses of World History, Jawaharlal Nehru
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Mark Manson
- The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier
- Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham
- The Stranger, Albert Camus
- Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William Whyte
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
- Meet Me in the Bathroom, Elizabeth Goodman
- Who Pushes Whom Around Inside The Careenium, Douglas Hofstadter
- Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Sallinger
pre-2017
- Superfreakonomics, Dubner and Levitt
- Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
- Elon Musk, Ashlee Vance
- Javascript: The Good Parts, Douglas Crockford
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
- The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
- Freakonomics, Dubner and Levitt
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
COURSEWORK
Liberal arts at Stanford has afforded me the possibility of
both breadth and depth. Below is a selection of classes I've
pursued, across visual computing, applied math, media art, and
philosophy.
Technical
- CS 348B: Image Synthesis Techniques
- CS 248: Interactive Computer Graphics
- CS 229: Machine Learning
- CS 221: Artificial Intelligence
- CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox
- CS 161: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- CS 140: Operating Systems
- CS 110: Principles of Computer Systems
- EE 267: Virtual Reality
- EE 263: Linear Dynamical Systems
- EE 261: The Fourier Transform
- ECON 180: Honors Game Theory
- MATH 115: Functions of a Real Variable
Making and the Arts
- ARTINST 200: Capstone in the Arts Workshop
- ARTSTUDI 254: Kinetic Sculpture
- ARTSTUDI 170: Black and White Film Photography
- ARTSTUDI 163: Drawing with Code
- ME 203: Design and Manufacturing
- ME 110: Design Sketching
- ENGR 40M: Introduction to Making
Humanities
- PHIL 333: Graduate Seminar in Aesthetics
- PHIL 193C: Film and Philosophy
- PHIL 80: Mind, Matter, and Meaning
- ARTHIST 159B: American Photography since 1960
- ARTHIST 1B: A Survey of Western Art
- COMPLIT 123: The Novel and the World
- ENGLISH 145G: U.S. Fiction since 1945
- PSYCH 50: Cognitive Neuroscience
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