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Spira Memoriae – Scent as a vector of storytelling, transmission, and shared fiction
Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites the user to traverse a fragmented sensory world. Original perfumes extend this reflection through the language of scent, acting as markers within an abstract land...
Unbubble – Revealing our tailor-made (many) realities
Unbubble explore user’s Instagram activity, exposing the paradox of our digital lives—guarded devices yet open to algorithms. By visualizing these hidden interactions, it reflects on how data shapes our identities and online bubbles.
TreeSoil – Robotic 3D-printed earthen microclimate shelter for saplings
TreeSoil is a 3D-printed earthen structure that shields young trees in degraded areas, creating microclimates for early growth. It revives ancient soil-shaping practices through computational design and robotic fabrication.
Trail Sync – Decentralized alpine data sharing for hikers
Trail Sync is a participatory system for alpine routes, rooted in the mountain values of collective responsibility and solidarity, that reinforces existing signage infrastructure without increasing technological dependency.
Chair 2 – Merging the mundane with the uncanny
Developed during a residency at New Lab (Detroit), Chair 2 explores the mundane with the uncanny, where an ordinary chair "comes alive" through motion.
SlimeMoldCrypt – Security as a biological process
A speculative device that reimagines security as a biological process using a single-celled slime mold, as an unpredictable and dynamic encryption engine.
Sasu 28 – Crossing the boundaries between sign and matter, digital and analog
Born from an exploration of kinetic typography using linear objects, twenty-eight sewing needles appear and disappear through the black knit fabric visualizing the passage of time.
Garden of Forking Paths – Thermochromic canvas of a dendritic maze
Garden of Forking Paths is an installation comprised of a matrix of custom printed circuit boards that make use of the physical connection between electrical resistance and heat.
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    War – Confronting conflict as it is spoken
    War is a near real-time, physical manifestation of the language of conflict. It delivers quotes from news coverage of wars around the world, stripping away context and narrative to present war as it is: familiar, messy, and contradicting.
    Seesaw Economy Manifesto – A mechanism of worth, care, and emotional resonance
    Seesaw Economy Manifesto is a relational installation that reimagines value exchange through embodied interaction, ambiguity, and co-created meaning. Departing from the metaphor of economic balance as a static scale—neutral, rigid, and abstract—th...
    The Closed World – Modified telescope to observe a machine-generated cosmos
    The Closed World is about truth in an age of machine-generated content. It takes a telescope - an instrument of truth - and intercepts the path of cosmic light with that of a simulated universe.
    CWXT – Color Weather Translator
    CWXT is a ambient interface that translates live weather data into color, offering a sensory alternative to traditional forecasting data. It operates using the OpenWeatherMap API, fetching live weather data for a user-defined location.
    Komorebi – A swarm of artificial creatures that make music from shadows
    Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of ...
    50°47’300″N 4°33’341″W
    50°47’300N 4°33’341W is programmed using sewage discharge data to highlight the environmental and human impact of water contamination and sewage release. 50°47’300N 4°33’341W is based on the interpretation and manipulation of raw data sets to act ...
    Viral Infection – Knowledge transmission, reproduction, and evolution in a host
    Viral Infection is a web-connected interactive robotics installation that examines the reproductive behaviour of digital fragments on the verge of embodiment. The work reflects on how technological developments and automated algorithms are transfo...
    Otto – Robotic choreographies
    Created by the team of engineers, designers, coders, researchers and storytellers at Gentle Systems, Otto is comprised of two choreographed KUKA Agilus KR6 robots, and a series of tools the team built to allow them to explore surface tensions of ...
    Picky – A judgemental trashcan robot
    Created during a month-long robotics module, Picky is a judgemental trashcan robot designed by Juwon Jung, Nefeli Vitoraki, and Xiangnan Wu. With a side-eye for recycling mistakes and raised eyebrows for correct actions, Picky provides a novel for...
    Tech Mining – E-Waste Workshop at HEAD
    Results from the recent Tech Mining workshop held in March 2025 at HEAD in Geneva. Ran by Benjamin Gaulon, this workshop represents the culmination of two decades of Benjamin's exploration with electronic waste (e-waste) as a resource for art making.
    Pipo Interfaces – A new playground for creative sensing
    Pipo Interfaces brings a new versatile toolkit for creative sensing and audiovisual interaction in real-time. Developed by creative technologist Rupert Renevier, Pipo is a range of electronics sensor modules that simplify creative interactivity be...
    Mechanisms of Fascination – Granting humanity to the artificial
    Mechanisms of Fascination is comprised of several luminous elements emiting clearly readable messages. These elements, converse in silence, speculate, and invent stories about what they’re observing in the room, based on their own mechanical and l...
    Anthofluid – Painting in Anthocyanins
    Created by Nathalie Gebert, Anthofluid is an installation that uses electric currents to stimulate fluid anthocyanin solution to draw pigmental paths across a gridded surface. For Nathalie, this process reflects the flexibility of matter and the f...
    Renment – Writing with (linear) objects
    Inspired by Charles Dickens' aphorism, 'We forge the chains we wear in life,' Yuichiro Katsumoto created a device that forms letters with chains. For Yuichiro, the chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotio...
    Generative Art 1€ – Democratizing art consumption and collection
    Created by Niklas Roy, Generative Art 1€ is a coin-operated vending machine for unique plotter drawings. A generative algorithm continuously draws an animated black line on a screen, offering an endless stream of potential artworks. Each piece exi...
    The Red Line – Threshold of tolerance/action
    The Red Line is a physical device that examines how we adapt to escalating crises, revealing our tendency to shift the threshold of what we consider acceptable over time. It is inspired by the concept of a "red line" — a figurative boundary that, ...
    Liminal Ring – (Un)controllable currents in the persistence of chaos
    Liminal Ring visualizes humanity's obsession with controlling nature while exposing the limitations of such interventions. By introducing laminar flows—artificially directed streams—into naturally occurring turbulence, this project explores the bo...
    Portraits – Shinseungback Kimyonghun
    A series of "Portrait" works by Seoul based artistic duo Shinseungback Kimyonghun. Their latest project Analytic Portrait, pictured here and featured (last) in the series of works that explore the representation (and computation) of human face thr...
    Spira Memoriae – Scent as a vector of storytelling, transmission, and shared fiction
    Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites the user to traverse a fragmented sensory world. Original perfumes extend this reflection through the language of scent, acting as markers within an abstract landscape.
    Unbubble – Revealing our tailor-made (many) realities
    Unbubble explore user’s Instagram activity, exposing the paradox of our digital lives—guarded devices yet open to algorithms. By visualizing these hidden interactions, it reflects on how data shapes our identities and online bubbles.
    TreeSoil – Robotic 3D-printed earthen microclimate shelter for saplings
    TreeSoil is a 3D-printed earthen structure that shields young trees in degraded areas, creating microclimates for early growth. It revives ancient soil-shaping practices through computational design and robotic fabrication.
    Trail Sync – Decentralized alpine data sharing for hikers
    Trail Sync is a participatory system for alpine routes, rooted in the mountain values of collective responsibility and solidarity, that reinforces existing signage infrastructure without increasing technological dependency.
    Chair 2 – Merging the mundane with the uncanny
    Developed during a residency at New Lab (Detroit), Chair 2 explores the mundane with the uncanny, where an ordinary chair "comes alive" through motion.
    SlimeMoldCrypt – Security as a biological process
    A speculative device that reimagines security as a biological process using a single-celled slime mold, as an unpredictable and dynamic encryption engine.
    Sasu 28 – Crossing the boundaries between sign and matter, digital and analog
    Born from an exploration of kinetic typography using linear objects, twenty-eight sewing needles appear and disappear through the black knit fabric visualizing the passage of time.
    Garden of Forking Paths – Thermochromic canvas of a dendritic maze
    Garden of Forking Paths is an installation comprised of a matrix of custom printed circuit boards that make use of the physical connection between electrical resistance and heat.
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  • Last days to get and fund Pipo!
    Pipo crowdfunding is reaching its final days. Support the launch: pre-order or spread the word!
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  • War – Confronting conflict as it is spoken
    War is a near real-time, physical manifestation of the language of conflict. It delivers quotes from news coverage of wars around the world, stripping away context and narrative to present war as it is: familiar, messy, and contradicting.
    Seesaw Economy Manifesto – A mechanism of worth, care, and emotional resonance
    Seesaw Economy Manifesto is a relational installation that reimagines value exchange through embodied interaction, ambiguity, and co-created meaning. Departing from the metaphor of economic balance as a static scale—neutral, rigid, and abstract—the project proposes the seesaw as a dynamic, playful alternative: a mechanism of mutual responsivenes...
    The Closed World – Modified telescope to observe a machine-generated cosmos
    The Closed World is about truth in an age of machine-generated content. It takes a telescope - an instrument of truth - and intercepts the path of cosmic light with that of a simulated universe.
    CWXT – Color Weather Translator
    CWXT is a ambient interface that translates live weather data into color, offering a sensory alternative to traditional forecasting data. It operates using the OpenWeatherMap API, fetching live weather data for a user-defined location.
    Komorebi – A swarm of artificial creatures that make music from shadows
    Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of complex systems reaching beyond biological life as we understand it.
    50°47’300″N 4°33’341″W
    50°47’300N 4°33’341W is programmed using sewage discharge data to highlight the environmental and human impact of water contamination and sewage release. 50°47’300N 4°33’341W is based on the interpretation and manipulation of raw data sets to act as an expounding interface between science and art, presenting data as a symbolic visual form.
    Viral Infection – Knowledge transmission, reproduction, and evolution in a host
    Viral Infection is a web-connected interactive robotics installation that examines the reproductive behaviour of digital fragments on the verge of embodiment. The work reflects on how technological developments and automated algorithms are transforming the transmission of knowledge.
    Otto – Robotic choreographies
    Created by the team of engineers, designers, coders, researchers and storytellers at Gentle Systems, Otto is comprised of two choreographed KUKA Agilus KR6 robots, and a series of tools the team built to allow them to explore surface tensions of soap bubbles.
    Picky – A judgemental trashcan robot
    Created during a month-long robotics module, Picky is a judgemental trashcan robot designed by Juwon Jung, Nefeli Vitoraki, and Xiangnan Wu. With a side-eye for recycling mistakes and raised eyebrows for correct actions, Picky provides a novel form of interaction that combines humor with education. By turning recycling into an engaging experienc...
    Tech Mining – E-Waste Workshop at HEAD
    Results from the recent Tech Mining workshop held in March 2025 at HEAD in Geneva. Ran by Benjamin Gaulon, this workshop represents the culmination of two decades of Benjamin's exploration with electronic waste (e-waste) as a resource for art making.
    Pipo Interfaces – A new playground for creative sensing
    Pipo Interfaces brings a new versatile toolkit for creative sensing and audiovisual interaction in real-time. Developed by creative technologist Rupert Renevier, Pipo is a range of electronics sensor modules that simplify creative interactivity between people, real-world objects, and digital creation. Whether you're crafting installations, desig...
    Mechanisms of Fascination – Granting humanity to the artificial
    Mechanisms of Fascination is comprised of several luminous elements emiting clearly readable messages. These elements, converse in silence, speculate, and invent stories about what they’re observing in the room, based on their own mechanical and limited ability to analyze reality. Their dialogue feels unsettling—yet strangely familiar.
    Anthofluid – Painting in Anthocyanins
    Created by Nathalie Gebert, Anthofluid is an installation that uses electric currents to stimulate fluid anthocyanin solution to draw pigmental paths across a gridded surface. For Nathalie, this process reflects the flexibility of matter and the fluid dynamics of material life, as explored in, among others, hydrofeminist discourse.
    Renment – Writing with (linear) objects
    Inspired by Charles Dickens' aphorism, 'We forge the chains we wear in life,' Yuichiro Katsumoto created a device that forms letters with chains. For Yuichiro, the chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotions, and words that tend to possess our minds and souls.
    Generative Art 1€ – Democratizing art consumption and collection
    Created by Niklas Roy, Generative Art 1€ is a coin-operated vending machine for unique plotter drawings. A generative algorithm continuously draws an animated black line on a screen, offering an endless stream of potential artworks. Each piece exists in a transient digital state until someone intervenes by spending a coin. The installation quest...
    The Red Line – Threshold of tolerance/action
    The Red Line is a physical device that examines how we adapt to escalating crises, revealing our tendency to shift the threshold of what we consider acceptable over time. It is inspired by the concept of a "red line" — a figurative boundary that, once crossed, signifies a point of no return.
    Liminal Ring – (Un)controllable currents in the persistence of chaos
    Liminal Ring visualizes humanity's obsession with controlling nature while exposing the limitations of such interventions. By introducing laminar flows—artificially directed streams—into naturally occurring turbulence, this project explores the boundary between certainty and uncertainty. It highlights the tension between the order imposed by hum...
    Portraits – Shinseungback Kimyonghun
    A series of "Portrait" works by Seoul based artistic duo Shinseungback Kimyonghun. Their latest project Analytic Portrait, pictured here and featured (last) in the series of works that explore the representation (and computation) of human face through the use of computer algorithms (2012-2024+).

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    Titles Spira Memoriae – Scent as a vector of...
    Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites the user to traverse a fragmented sensory world. Original perfumes extend this reflection through the language of scent, acting as markers within an abstract land...
    , Unbubble – Revealing our tailor-made ...
    Unbubble explore user’s Instagram activity, exposing the paradox of our digital lives—guarded devices yet open to algorithms. By visualizing these hidden interactions, it reflects on how data shapes our identities and online bubbles.
    , TreeSoil – Robotic 3D-printed earthen...
    TreeSoil is a 3D-printed earthen structure that shields young trees in degraded areas, creating microclimates for early growth. It revives ancient soil-shaping practices through computational design and robotic fabrication.
    , Trail Sync – Decentralized alpine dat...
    Trail Sync is a participatory system for alpine routes, rooted in the mountain values of collective responsibility and solidarity, that reinforces existing signage infrastructure without increasing technological dependency.
    , Chair 2 – Merging the mundane w...
    Developed during a residency at New Lab (Detroit), Chair 2 explores the mundane with the uncanny, where an ordinary chair "comes alive" through motion.
    , SlimeMoldCrypt – Security as a biolog...
    A speculative device that reimagines security as a biological process using a single-celled slime mold, as an unpredictable and dynamic encryption engine.
    , Sasu 28 – Crossing the boundaries bet...
    Born from an exploration of kinetic typography using linear objects, twenty-eight sewing needles appear and disappear through the black knit fabric visualizing the passage of time.
    , Garden of Forking Paths – Thermochrom...
    Garden of Forking Paths is an installation comprised of a matrix of custom printed circuit boards that make use of the physical connection between electrical resistance and heat.
    , Last days to get and fund Pipo!
    Pipo crowdfunding is reaching its final days. Support the launch: pre-order or spread the word!
    , Pipo Interfaces is launching now!
    The wireless creative sensing platform has launched its pre-order campaign! Support the project – back us or spread the word. The project has come a long way, check it out!
    , War – Confronting conflict as it is s...
    War is a near real-time, physical manifestation of the language of conflict. It delivers quotes from news coverage of wars around the world, stripping away context and narrative to present war as it is: familiar, messy, and contradicting.
    , Seesaw Economy Manifesto – A mechanis...
    Seesaw Economy Manifesto is a relational installation that reimagines value exchange through embodied interaction, ambiguity, and co-created meaning. Departing from the metaphor of economic balance as a static scale—neutral, rigid, and abstract—th...
    , The Closed World – Modified telescope...
    The Closed World is about truth in an age of machine-generated content. It takes a telescope - an instrument of truth - and intercepts the path of cosmic light with that of a simulated universe.
    , CWXT – Color Weather Translator
    CWXT is a ambient interface that translates live weather data into color, offering a sensory alternative to traditional forecasting data. It operates using the OpenWeatherMap API, fetching live weather data for a user-defined location.
    , Komorebi – A swarm of artificial crea...
    Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of ...
    , 50°47’300″N 4°33’34...
    50°47’300N 4°33’341W is programmed using sewage discharge data to highlight the environmental and human impact of water contamination and sewage release. 50°47’300N 4°33’341W is based on the interpretation and manipulation of raw data sets to act ...
    , Viral Infection – Knowledge transmiss...
    Viral Infection is a web-connected interactive robotics installation that examines the reproductive behaviour of digital fragments on the verge of embodiment. The work reflects on how technological developments and automated algorithms are transfo...
    , Otto – Robotic choreographies
    Created by the team of engineers, designers, coders, researchers and storytellers at Gentle Systems, Otto is comprised of two choreographed KUKA Agilus KR6 robots, and a series of tools the team built to allow them to explore surface tensions of ...
    , Picky – A judgemental trashcan ...
    Created during a month-long robotics module, Picky is a judgemental trashcan robot designed by Juwon Jung, Nefeli Vitoraki, and Xiangnan Wu. With a side-eye for recycling mistakes and raised eyebrows for correct actions, Picky provides a novel for...
    , Tech Mining – E-Waste Workshop at HEAD
    Results from the recent Tech Mining workshop held in March 2025 at HEAD in Geneva. Ran by Benjamin Gaulon, this workshop represents the culmination of two decades of Benjamin's exploration with electronic waste (e-waste) as a resource for art making.
    , Pipo Interfaces – A new playground fo...
    Pipo Interfaces brings a new versatile toolkit for creative sensing and audiovisual interaction in real-time. Developed by creative technologist Rupert Renevier, Pipo is a range of electronics sensor modules that simplify creative interactivity be...
    , Mechanisms of Fascination – Granting ...
    Mechanisms of Fascination is comprised of several luminous elements emiting clearly readable messages. These elements, converse in silence, speculate, and invent stories about what they’re observing in the room, based on their own mechanical and l...
    , Anthofluid – Painting in Anthocyanins
    Created by Nathalie Gebert, Anthofluid is an installation that uses electric currents to stimulate fluid anthocyanin solution to draw pigmental paths across a gridded surface. For Nathalie, this process reflects the flexibility of matter and the f...
    , Renment – Writing with (linear) objects
    Inspired by Charles Dickens' aphorism, 'We forge the chains we wear in life,' Yuichiro Katsumoto created a device that forms letters with chains. For Yuichiro, the chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotio...
    , Generative Art 1€ – Democratizing art...
    Created by Niklas Roy, Generative Art 1€ is a coin-operated vending machine for unique plotter drawings. A generative algorithm continuously draws an animated black line on a screen, offering an endless stream of potential artworks. Each piece exi...
    , The Red Line – Threshold of tolerance...
    The Red Line is a physical device that examines how we adapt to escalating crises, revealing our tendency to shift the threshold of what we consider acceptable over time. It is inspired by the concept of a "red line" — a figurative boundary that, ...
    , Liminal Ring – (Un)controllable curre...
    Liminal Ring visualizes humanity's obsession with controlling nature while exposing the limitations of such interventions. By introducing laminar flows—artificially directed streams—into naturally occurring turbulence, this project explores the bo...
    , Portraits – Shinseungback Kimyonghun
    A series of "Portrait" works by Seoul based artistic duo Shinseungback Kimyonghun. Their latest project Analytic Portrait, pictured here and featured (last) in the series of works that explore the representation (and computation) of human face thr...
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