Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through videos and performance he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and visual poetry as new possibilities in cartography. His concerns include perceptual pleasure and fatigue, geographies of the natural and built environment, and subverting the presumed objectivity and authority of maps.

Since its Lisbon premiere (2022) he's given thirty-plus performances of "A Synesthete's Atlas"–manipulating projected digital maps in collaboration with improvising musicians–across North America. His animation, "If, as it advanced, the countermap's counter twirled the map around and down, spiraling out from Salesforce Tower to Bolinas as unwaveringly as the boléro. (If Map #5)", appeared atop San Francisco's Salesforce Tower throughout February 2024.