[1][2] His art work includes interactive video, large-scale public projections, computer vision projects, and interactive sound recordings which have featured in museums and galleries across the world including Museum of Modern Art,[3] New York Hall of Science,[4] Tate Modern amongst others.

[7] He is also co-founder of the programming toolkit openFrameworks,[8] co-creator of the EyeWriter[9] and a virtual fellow at Free Art and Technology Lab.

[10] As a programmer, Watson has worked with Zach Lieberman in creating openFrameworks, an open source C++ library for creative coding and graphics.

[citation needed] Watson makes site-specific installations that look at how humans relate to various situations and spaces.

In Vinyl Workout (Rotterdam Electronic Music Festival, 2006),[12] custom software and cameras track user's movements as they walk along a large projection of a record on the floor, manipulating the audio and video playback with the speed and direction of their steps.