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Face Trade – Art vending machine that trades mugshots for “free” portraits

Face Trade is an Art Vending Machine created by Matthias Dörfelt that dispenses unique prints of computer generated face drawings. Instead of paying with money, buyers trade a mugshot that is taken on the spot in order to be permanently stored in the Ethereum Blockchain, consequently turning the transaction into a semi-permanent Face Swap. With Face Trade Matthias wanted to create a playful tension between…

The chAIr Project – Reversing the role of human and machine in the design process

The chAIr Project is a series of four chairs created using a generative neural network (GAN) trained on a dataset of iconic 20th-century chairs with the goal to “generate a classic”. The results are semi-abstract visual prompts for a human designer who used them as a starting point for actual chair design concepts. The project is a collaboration between Philipp Schmitt, Steffen Weiss, and two neural networks…

Apparatum – Inspired by the Polish Radio Experimental Studio

Created by panGenerator, Apparatum is a custom made apparatus with digital interface that emits purely analogue sound. It is inspired by the heritage of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio – one of the first studios in the world producing electroacoustic music. The installation draws inspirations musically and graphically from the “Symphony – electronic music” – composed by Bogusław Schaeffer. Bogusław Schaeffer conceived his own visual language of symbols…

Sonic Playground – Playful acoustics by Yuri Suzuki Design

Created by Yuri Suzuki Design in collaboration with High Atlanta, Sonic Playground is an outdoor sound installation that features ingenious, colourful sculptures that modify and transmit sound in unusual, engaging and playful ways. The project is part of the High’s multi year initiative to animate its outdoor space with commissions that engage visitors in participatory art experiences. It is the High’s first venture into exploring the notion…

Narciss – AI whose only purpose is to investigate itself

Created by Waltz Binaire, Narciss is a robot that uses artificial intelligence to analyse itself, thus reflecting on its own existence. Comprised of Google’s Tensorflow framework and a simple mirror, the experiment translates self-portraits of a digital body into lyrical guesses. "Contemporary research in artificial intelligence enables the machine to describe visual input by expressing meaningful sentences. Based on our current state of knowledge,…

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 installation is comprised of over 100 motorised mirrors spread across two 4-metre-high towers and one 15-metre-long track that…

MULTIVERSE – The eternal birth and death of infinite parallel universes

During the last century, several hypotheses have been formulated involving the nature of our universe. Some theories lead to presume the existence of a multiverse: a system composed of an infinite number of universes that coexist simultaneously outside of our space-time. “Multiverse” is the new audio-visual installation by fuse* that draws inspiration from these concepts and, through the creation of a sequence of digital paintings,…

Making Data Matter – Voxel printing for digital fabrication of data

Developed by the team at the MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter group, the following research demonstrates multimaterial voxel-printing method that enables physical visualisation of volumetric data. Leveraging voxel-based control of multimaterial three-dimensional (3D) printing, their method enables additive manufacturing of discontinuous data types such as point cloud data, curve and graph data, image-based data, and volumetric data. By converting data sets into dithered material deposition…

Genesis of a Microbial Skin – Beehives designed for urban environments

Created by AnneMarie Maes, Genesis of a Microbial Skin is a mixed media installations and a research project exploring the idea of Intelligent Beehives with a focus on smart materials, in particular microbial skin. The project is about predominantly growing Intelligent Guerilla Beehives from scratch, with living materials – just as nature does. The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is a sensing device which mirrors the pullution of the environment. Through…

Superception – Expanding human perception with personal projection mapping

Created by Shunichi Kasahara in collaboration with Satoru Higa, Takuto Usami, Shotaro Hirata and Tetsuya Konishi, "Superception" (Super + perception) is a research framework that uses computer technologies to intervene and transform human perception. One of these research projects, “HeadLight" is a system that allows humans to experience the perceptual world of nonhuman species through personal projection mapping. HeadLight consists of a laser source small project with a wide…