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Off Grid Assemblies – DIY kit for off-grid electricity
This project aims to create a low-cost DIY kit for off-grid electricity in collaboration with the local community, empowering them to construct and maintain the turbines independently for supplemental electricity generation.
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  • Improvisational Machines: Live Coding Industrial Robots
    Organised and led by Madeline Gannon, Improvisational Machines is a workshop that brings live coding, dynamic interfaces, and flexible workflows into industrial robotics.
    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 ...
    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...
    Atmospheric Synthesis
    “Cloudscape,” is an immersive installation that explores the intersection of physical and digital environments. By combining generative AI visuals with fog machines, we created a cloud-like atmosphere that blurs the boundaries between reality and ...
    HIDDEN ORDERS – Microstructural Machine
    This drawing machine uses the properties of crystalline structures as the drawing unit, and the dynamic staggered arrangement of controlled crystalline structures to create a miniature landscape, attempting to strike a balance between the properti...
    Controlled Uncontrollables: SAD and the Bubble Printer
    Developed in the context of Human 2 Objects project, the main concept was to reflect the human capacity to transform natural elements and to use the human body and its spatiality as an input for interactivity. As a result, the exhibition Controlle...
    Another Moon – Kimchi and Chips
    Created by Kimchi and Chips, 'Another Moon' is a large-scale outdoor apparition that creates a technically sublime second moon in the sky. 40 towers collect the sun's energy during the day and project that light back into the sky at night, creatin...
    Catastrophic Combinations – Recursion, Contingency and Failure
    Created by Jonghong Park, 'Catastrophic Combinations' explores a recursive system of mechanical repetition where every movement is open to unpredictability and fault.
    Pump and Surf – Exchanging physical energy for digital information
    Created by Aurélien Pellegrini at ECAL , 'Pump and Surf' encourages internet users to find out how much energy is spent when they are surfing the internet. The user is asked to make a physical effort equal to the energy required to convey the data...
    HALO – Sculpting the sunlight into (im)material form
    Created by Kimchi and Chips and currently on view at the Somerset House in London, HALO is a new installation in the series of works by the Seoul based Mimi Son and Elliot Woods where light is sculpted to create form that exists between material a...
    The Light Barrier, Third Edition – Drawing volumes in the air with light
    Created by Seoul based duo Kimchi and Chips, "The Light Barrier Third Edition" is the latest and largest in the series of works by the studio to create volumetric drawings in the air using hundreds of calibrated video projections.
    Studio Drift – Free floating concrete monolith & HoloLens Artwork
    On display at the recent Armory Show in New York was the work of Amsterdam based Studio Drift featuring 'Drifter', a free floating concrete monolith together with 'Concrete Storm', a Holo Lens experience comprised of mixed reality art object.
    Attachment – Balloon-Powered (In)direct Messaging Revisited
    A complete redesign of his 2014 Jean Tinguely-inspired project, David Colombini’s Attachment is a “poetic machine” that renders physical manifestations of user-generated digital messages (text, images, or videos) and sends them off via biodegradab...
    Golem – Morphology and Material in Kinetic Structures
    Created by Juncheng Chen, Siyuan Jing and Lydia Zhou at the Bartlett School of Architecture (Interactive Architecture Lab), this project explores possibilities in mobile structures by investigating various strategies for locomotion.
    AADRL – Behavioural Complexity; Mobile, Self-Aware and Self-Assemble
    Exploring behavior based design systems that are self-aware, mobile, and self-structure / assemble. The following is the work AADRL Spyropoulos Design Lab at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London.
    Lung – A device that visualizes breathing data using soap bubbles
    Philips is doing more and more in the field of health and asked the second and third years Interaction Design at ArtEZ Academy of the Arts Arnhem to do develop a project about Quantified Self. Amy Whittle and Willem Kempers teamed up and choose br...
    Vanitas Machine – The transience and extension of life
    Created by Verena Friedrich, Vanitas Machine explores the desire for eternal life and the potential of life-prolonging measures. Vanitas Machine is comprised of a candle placed in the centre of glass which protects it from environmental factors an...
    Transient Materialization – Ephemeral material-oriented digital fabrication
    Transient Materialization explores the relationship between digital and material-based digital fabrication through n-hedron structure composed mainly of soap foam, which is blown, through a mixture of air and helium, into a foam structure.
    Attachment by David Colombini – Poetic machine to send messages to someone, somewhere
    Created by David Colombini at ECAL, Attachment is a poetic machine that allows you to send messages, images, or videos into the air using a biodegradable balloon with intention to rediscover expectation, random and the unexpected uncommon with the...
    Light Barrier – Millions of calibrated light beams create floating phantoms in the air
    Light Barrier by Kimchi and Chips creates phantoms of light in the air by crossing millions of calibrated beams, creating floating graphic objects which animate through space.
    Space Replay – Delayed echo of human activity
    Space Replay is a hovering object that explores and manipulates transitional public spaces by constantly recording and replaying their ambient sounds.
    inFORM – Dynamic Shape Display from Tangible Media Group
    inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way.
    Aireal – Interactive tactile experiences in free air by Disney Research
    Aireal is a low cost, scalable haptic technology that delivers tactile sensations in mid air and enables users to feel virtual objects and experience dynamically varying textures.
    Laser Projection Mapping on Soap Bubbles by Memo Akten
    What happens when you mix soap bubbles and lasers? Memo Akten, 1/3 of Marshmallow Laser Feast, just got hold of Etherdream DAC laser and has been "messing" with it using openFrameworks.
    Off Grid Assemblies – DIY kit for off-grid electricity
    This project aims to create a low-cost DIY kit for off-grid electricity in collaboration with the local community, empowering them to construct and maintain the turbines independently for supplemental electricity generation.
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  • Improvisational Machines: Live Coding Industrial Robots
    Organised and led by Madeline Gannon, Improvisational Machines is a workshop that brings live coding, dynamic interfaces, and flexible workflows into industrial robotics.
    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.
    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...
    Atmospheric Synthesis
    “Cloudscape,” is an immersive installation that explores the intersection of physical and digital environments. By combining generative AI visuals with fog machines, we created a cloud-like atmosphere that blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.
    HIDDEN ORDERS – Microstructural Machine
    This drawing machine uses the properties of crystalline structures as the drawing unit, and the dynamic staggered arrangement of controlled crystalline structures to create a miniature landscape, attempting to strike a balance between the properties of natural materials and human control, and to explore the natural order hidden in the natural ma...
    Controlled Uncontrollables: SAD and the Bubble Printer
    Developed in the context of Human 2 Objects project, the main concept was to reflect the human capacity to transform natural elements and to use the human body and its spatiality as an input for interactivity. As a result, the exhibition Controlled Uncontrollables is composed of two sculptural installations in a delicate interplay of art and tec...
    Another Moon – Kimchi and Chips
    Created by Kimchi and Chips, 'Another Moon' is a large-scale outdoor apparition that creates a technically sublime second moon in the sky. 40 towers collect the sun's energy during the day and project that light back into the sky at night, creating a second moon overhead.
    Catastrophic Combinations – Recursion, Contingency and Failure
    Created by Jonghong Park, 'Catastrophic Combinations' explores a recursive system of mechanical repetition where every movement is open to unpredictability and fault.
    Pump and Surf – Exchanging physical energy for digital information
    Created by Aurélien Pellegrini at ECAL , 'Pump and Surf' encourages internet users to find out how much energy is spent when they are surfing the internet. The user is asked to make a physical effort equal to the energy required to convey the data that will enable the site to be displayed.
    HALO – Sculpting the sunlight into (im)material form
    Created by Kimchi and Chips and currently on view at the Somerset House in London, HALO is a new installation in the series of works by the Seoul based Mimi Son and Elliot Woods where light is sculpted to create form that exists between material and immaterial.
    The Light Barrier, Third Edition – Drawing volumes in the air with light
    Created by Seoul based duo Kimchi and Chips, "The Light Barrier Third Edition" is the latest and largest in the series of works by the studio to create volumetric drawings in the air using hundreds of calibrated video projections.
    Studio Drift – Free floating concrete monolith & HoloLens Artwork
    On display at the recent Armory Show in New York was the work of Amsterdam based Studio Drift featuring 'Drifter', a free floating concrete monolith together with 'Concrete Storm', a Holo Lens experience comprised of mixed reality art object.
    Attachment – Balloon-Powered (In)direct Messaging Revisited
    A complete redesign of his 2014 Jean Tinguely-inspired project, David Colombini’s Attachment is a “poetic machine” that renders physical manifestations of user-generated digital messages (text, images, or videos) and sends them off via biodegradable balloons.
    Golem – Morphology and Material in Kinetic Structures
    Created by Juncheng Chen, Siyuan Jing and Lydia Zhou at the Bartlett School of Architecture (Interactive Architecture Lab), this project explores possibilities in mobile structures by investigating various strategies for locomotion.
    AADRL – Behavioural Complexity; Mobile, Self-Aware and Self-Assemble
    Exploring behavior based design systems that are self-aware, mobile, and self-structure / assemble. The following is the work AADRL Spyropoulos Design Lab at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London.
    Lung – A device that visualizes breathing data using soap bubbles
    Philips is doing more and more in the field of health and asked the second and third years Interaction Design at ArtEZ Academy of the Arts Arnhem to do develop a project about Quantified Self. Amy Whittle and Willem Kempers teamed up and choose breathing as focus, it being a vital function that can be subconscious as well as controlled.
    Vanitas Machine – The transience and extension of life
    Created by Verena Friedrich, Vanitas Machine explores the desire for eternal life and the potential of life-prolonging measures. Vanitas Machine is comprised of a candle placed in the centre of glass which protects it from environmental factors and controls it's lifespan by regulating the oxygen supply.
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  • Transient Materialization – Ephemeral material-oriented digital fabrication
    Transient Materialization explores the relationship between digital and material-based digital fabrication through n-hedron structure composed mainly of soap foam, which is blown, through a mixture of air and helium, into a foam structure.
    Attachment by David Colombini – Poetic machine to send messages to someone, somewhere
    Created by David Colombini at ECAL, Attachment is a poetic machine that allows you to send messages, images, or videos into the air using a biodegradable balloon with intention to rediscover expectation, random and the unexpected uncommon with the current forms of communication.
    Light Barrier – Millions of calibrated light beams create floating phantoms in the air
    Light Barrier by Kimchi and Chips creates phantoms of light in the air by crossing millions of calibrated beams, creating floating graphic objects which animate through space.
    Space Replay – Delayed echo of human activity
    Space Replay is a hovering object that explores and manipulates transitional public spaces by constantly recording and replaying their ambient sounds.
    inFORM – Dynamic Shape Display from Tangible Media Group
    inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way.
    Aireal – Interactive tactile experiences in free air by Disney Research
    Aireal is a low cost, scalable haptic technology that delivers tactile sensations in mid air and enables users to feel virtual objects and experience dynamically varying textures.
    Laser Projection Mapping on Soap Bubbles by Memo Akten
    What happens when you mix soap bubbles and lasers? Memo Akten, 1/3 of Marshmallow Laser Feast, just got hold of Etherdream DAC laser and has been "messing" with it using openFrameworks.
    The Cloud Machine – A Personalized Weather Modification Prototype
    While airship construction is not generally within the purview of media artists, a recent project by Karolina Sobecka makes a compelling case for floating personalized weather modification devices up towards the stratosphere. The Cloud Machine is a composite weather balloon and rudimentary cloud seeding apparatus that can create small clouds and...
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    Titles Off Grid Assemblies – DIY kit for off...
    This project aims to create a low-cost DIY kit for off-grid electricity in collaboration with the local community, empowering them to construct and maintain the turbines independently for supplemental electricity generation.
    , Improvisational Machines: Live Coding...
    Organised and led by Madeline Gannon, Improvisational Machines is a workshop that brings live coding, dynamic interfaces, and flexible workflows into industrial robotics.
    , 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 ...
    , 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...
    , Atmospheric Synthesis
    “Cloudscape,” is an immersive installation that explores the intersection of physical and digital environments. By combining generative AI visuals with fog machines, we created a cloud-like atmosphere that blurs the boundaries between reality and ...
    , HIDDEN ORDERS – Microstructural Machine
    This drawing machine uses the properties of crystalline structures as the drawing unit, and the dynamic staggered arrangement of controlled crystalline structures to create a miniature landscape, attempting to strike a balance between the properti...
    , Controlled Uncontrollables: SAD and t...
    Developed in the context of Human 2 Objects project, the main concept was to reflect the human capacity to transform natural elements and to use the human body and its spatiality as an input for interactivity. As a result, the exhibition Controlle...
    , Another Moon – Kimchi and Chips
    Created by Kimchi and Chips, 'Another Moon' is a large-scale outdoor apparition that creates a technically sublime second moon in the sky. 40 towers collect the sun's energy during the day and project that light back into the sky at night, creatin...
    , Catastrophic Combinations – Recursion...
    Created by Jonghong Park, 'Catastrophic Combinations' explores a recursive system of mechanical repetition where every movement is open to unpredictability and fault.
    , Pump and Surf – Exchanging physical e...
    Created by Aurélien Pellegrini at ECAL , 'Pump and Surf' encourages internet users to find out how much energy is spent when they are surfing the internet. The user is asked to make a physical effort equal to the energy required to convey the data...
    , HALO – Sculpting the sunlight into (i...
    Created by Kimchi and Chips and currently on view at the Somerset House in London, HALO is a new installation in the series of works by the Seoul based Mimi Son and Elliot Woods where light is sculpted to create form that exists between material a...
    , The Light Barrier, Third Edition – Dr...
    Created by Seoul based duo Kimchi and Chips, "The Light Barrier Third Edition" is the latest and largest in the series of works by the studio to create volumetric drawings in the air using hundreds of calibrated video projections.
    , Studio Drift – Free floating concrete...
    On display at the recent Armory Show in New York was the work of Amsterdam based Studio Drift featuring 'Drifter', a free floating concrete monolith together with 'Concrete Storm', a Holo Lens experience comprised of mixed reality art object.
    , Attachment – Balloon-Powered (In)dire...
    A complete redesign of his 2014 Jean Tinguely-inspired project, David Colombini’s Attachment is a “poetic machine” that renders physical manifestations of user-generated digital messages (text, images, or videos) and sends them off via biodegradab...
    , Golem – Morphology and Material in Ki...
    Created by Juncheng Chen, Siyuan Jing and Lydia Zhou at the Bartlett School of Architecture (Interactive Architecture Lab), this project explores possibilities in mobile structures by investigating various strategies for locomotion.
    , AADRL – Behavioural Complexity; Mobil...
    Exploring behavior based design systems that are self-aware, mobile, and self-structure / assemble. The following is the work AADRL Spyropoulos Design Lab at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London.
    , Lung – A device that visualizes...
    Philips is doing more and more in the field of health and asked the second and third years Interaction Design at ArtEZ Academy of the Arts Arnhem to do develop a project about Quantified Self. Amy Whittle and Willem Kempers teamed up and choose br...
    , Vanitas Machine – The transienc...
    Created by Verena Friedrich, Vanitas Machine explores the desire for eternal life and the potential of life-prolonging measures. Vanitas Machine is comprised of a candle placed in the centre of glass which protects it from environmental factors an...
    , Transient Materialization – Eph...
    Transient Materialization explores the relationship between digital and material-based digital fabrication through n-hedron structure composed mainly of soap foam, which is blown, through a mixture of air and helium, into a foam structure.
    , Attachment by David Colombini –...
    Created by David Colombini at ECAL, Attachment is a poetic machine that allows you to send messages, images, or videos into the air using a biodegradable balloon with intention to rediscover expectation, random and the unexpected uncommon with the...
    , Light Barrier – Millions of cal...
    Light Barrier by Kimchi and Chips creates phantoms of light in the air by crossing millions of calibrated beams, creating floating graphic objects which animate through space.
    , Space Replay – Delayed echo of ...
    Space Replay is a hovering object that explores and manipulates transitional public spaces by constantly recording and replaying their ambient sounds.
    , inFORM – Dynamic Shape Display ...
    inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way.
    , Aireal – Interactive tactile ex...
    Aireal is a low cost, scalable haptic technology that delivers tactile sensations in mid air and enables users to feel virtual objects and experience dynamically varying textures.
    , Laser Projection Mapping on Soap Bubb...
    What happens when you mix soap bubbles and lasers? Memo Akten, 1/3 of Marshmallow Laser Feast, just got hold of Etherdream DAC laser and has been "messing" with it using openFrameworks.
    , The Cloud Machine – A Personalized We...
    While airship construction is not generally within the purview of media artists, a recent project by Karolina Sobecka makes a compelling case for floating personalized weather modification devices up towards the stratosphere. The Cloud Machine is ...
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