Video synthesizer
Making TV images without a video camera at the University of Illinois, the Beck Direct Video Synthesizer constructed images using form, shape, color, texture, and motion.
Phosphotron
"I want to be able to produce an image right inside your eyes, without the need for you to look at a surface."
Energy efficiency
Beck designed a computer system to control the light and temperature in Safeway grocery stores.
Video weavings
"In my Video Weavings, millions of patterns appear, many of which resemble or replicate the same patterns found in textiles woven by ancient peoples, such as the Pueblos of the southwestern North American continent."
Wrinkles, a talking dog
Wrinkles was an artificial intelligence talking dog and puppet with seven sensors and a vocabulary of over 2,500 sentences, laughs, barks and moans.
Bird Songs
The first of several books, "Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds in Song" uses actual sounds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Noor illuminated art
Noor uses calligramation to create time variant analytical geometries based on patterns and design motifs found in Middle Eastern art and architecture.