DEXTER CALLENDER III

Software Engineer / Creative

New York City, NY

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Talks & Lectures

2026

Upcoming Lecture / University of California, Berkeley for class "AI and Generative Design for Sustainable Building", organized by Ramon Weber↗︎

2025

Tate Britain, London, Leadership Symposium, organized by Anthropic

2025

NYC Design Engineering, New York City, "Engineering for Art", organized by Netflix (JC Ehle) and Peacock (Doug DeMarco)

2025

The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, organized by Anthropic

2025

Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable, San Francisco, organized by Fine Arts Museum of San Fransisco Roundtable & Anthropic

MIT Schnitzer Prize Exhibition

Recipient of the 2024 MIT Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts. Artwork exhibited at the MIT Wiesner Gallery.

award & exhibition

Computer Vision

Media Art

Glass Sculpture

Drawing Objects

A tablet-based design tool for creating illuminated objects. Design exhibited during NY Design Week at the HeadHi Lamp Show

design tool

Media Art

Design

Sculpture

Reticulate

A web-based design tool for designing and fabricating reticulated models

design tool

Developer

Designer

Virginia Woolf, "The Waves" Visualization

A data visualization of the character relationships in Virginia Woolf's novel, "The Waves"

data visualization

NLP

Data Visualization

Artechouse Miami Group Exhibition

A group exhibition at Artechouse Miami during Miami Art Week. Exhibited three code-generated sculptures

sculpture & exhibition

Shader Code

Media Art

Sculpture

Intersync

A muscial trio exploring composition, improvisation, and electronics

Rafa Heredia - Percussion, Guitar
Arman Wali - Keyboard

music performance

Saxophonist

Composer

Compass Pattern Generator

A parametric design tool used to create and customize Compass brand patterns

design tool

Developer

Designer

Compass Sign Center

A custom-built e-commerce platform for designing and ordering physical signs.

web application

Full-stack Development

System Design

Compass Motion Workshop

Co-led a workshop on code applied to graphic design to the global Compass design team

workshop

Teaching

Contour

A CMS software extension built into Adobe Illustrator for creating editable design templates and deploying them on the web without using code.

The extension supports styling and validating text input areas.

• fixed or scalable font size
• alignment
• line breaks and line height
• letter case
• text input validations

software extension + web application

Frontend Developer

UX Design

Light Clock V. I

A light source orbits around a circular clock face, casting a ray of light towards a mirror at its center. The incident ray is the hour hand and the reflected ray is the minute hand.

design object