Data Critters – Tracing our digital actions through modern scribes
Data Critters are custom-built mechanical plotters connected to live data feeds from the platforms they map. They trace paths across paper as data is generated, producing an ever-growing, never-finished map of online human activity.
IED Master of Arts in Interaction Design: shaping emerging technologies for products and services
IED Master of Arts in Interaction Design focuses on training designers who can shape and manage interaction ecosystems where physical and digital dimensions converge.
Uncoded Gestures – Tracing the echos of the past
Uncoded Gestures is an installation that traces cultural memory through posture. By mapping live silhouettes to archival photos, it reveals how modern bodies echo the past, turning everyday gestures into a dialogue across time.
Material Interactions – A New Species of Design
In a debut collaboration, a series of five material-driven kinetic sculptures by designers Nadya Suvorova and Heidi Jalkh don’t just move: they respond, proving that "passive matter" is anything but.
Spectrum Slit – A light that can see radiowaves
Spectrum Slit transforms the hidden storm of radio waves into a physical experience by using LED filaments, translating digital traffic into bursts of light and sound, exposing the constant and invasive density of our modern world.
KIKK Festival 2025 – Rediscovering Playful Interactions
At KIKK Festival, the tech world felt human again. Conversations, playful installations, and three days of talks showed how creative misuse of tools becomes critique—reviving curiosity in an age overshadowed by AI noise.
Behind the Screens – Swipe, twist, and zoom
A series of works by Ludwig Dressler where he explores the transformative power of digital technologies – both on the individual and on society. The focus here is on the three most important smartphone gestures – swipe, twist, and zoom – as symbol...
To Heat a Candle with the Warmth of You – Material realities of (AI) computation
To Heat a Candle with the Warmth of You explores the energy consumption of AI through the medium of heat. The self-referencing system is prompted and the resulting heat from the computation slowly melts and erodes the candle in the physical world.
Glitchwear – From digital error to wearable expression
Dan Moore’s Glitchwear transforms digital errors into textiles, using ISF and VDMX to manipulate a Unity generated scene. Glitch is treated as beauty, breaking down natural forms into digital fragments where a simulated forest becomes a site for c...
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...
Archives of Memory – Shadow bodies in the digital age
Amay Kataria reflects on his participation in the ambitious exhibition exploring South Asian art's profound impact on Chicago's cultural landscape. "What Is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago" at the South Asia Institute ...
Hyperthread: The intertwined histories of the Microchip and the Jacquard loom
Hyperthread explores the aesthetics of parametric chip design through the lens of the Jacquard Loom. It is based on public domain microchips and emulators that perform different functions such as a cryptographic key generator, a general purpose CP...
grindruberairbnb.exposed – Network and invisible systems of control
An exploratory project into networks' ability to guide movement through physical space - the name concatenates three popular digital services which perform acts of choreography on a mass scale.
Mutiertes L-System – Physically grown L-System
Created by Lotta Stöver at HfK Bremen, Mutiertes L-System is the physically grown L-System-Algorithm. From a software origin, it migrates into the physical world. By mutating and developing architectural structures it adapts to its new spatial env...
MikroKontrolleur – An instrument to play one’s voice
Created by Katharina Hauke and Dominik Hildebrand Marques Lopes, the MikroKontrolleur is the result of their ongoing artistic research into working with vocals and electronics live on stage. It consists of a control station that can be attached to...
Weaved. Programmable Textile – Modelling fabrics into three-dimensional structures
After the experiments in physical programming in the "Traces" project we reported on last year, Dana Zelig decided to examine the possibility of adjusting the plastic to fabrics, by means of pressing them together, allowing the heat to manipulate ...
Spectra-3 by FIELD – Choreographing a physical-digital system
Created by digital design studio FIELD, Spectra-3 is a physical-digital sculpture that tells three stories of communication through a choreography of movement, animated lights and spatialised sound, premiering at London's Lumiere light festival on...
OccultUs by Simon de Diesbach – Designing for alternate reality
Created by Simon de Diesbach at ECAL with the support from Alain Bellet, Gael Hugo, and Christophe Guignard, OccultUs is an installation that exploits the potential of the Oculus technology by immersing the user in a sensory experience that mixes ...
Aerosol – Transferring a virtual particle system into the physical
Aerosol explores what happens when we reverse the common process of transferring physical systems into virtual ones. In this project 16 servo motors control the undulated landscape setting iron balls in continuous motion.
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.
DIRTI for iPad – Tapioca interface for iOS
DIRTI for iPad is a physical interface for iOS that uses Tapioca grains or anything else that's semi-transparent and that you can mold, like vanilla ice cream for example to control content on the iOS.
‘Perception of Consequence’ by Volvoxlabs
Perception of Consequence project represents two fluid-evolving forms are placed in a reversible entropic system and simulated to resemble evolving human states and emotions.
Drawnimal – Expanding iOS device by using simple tools like pen and paper
Drawnimal aims to expand iOS device by using simple tools like pen and paper and motivate children to learn the alphabet and leave the digital screen using simple physical interaction.
Glitch Textiles – Phillip Stearns uses short circuited cameras to create blanket patterns
A set of 60x40" woven blankets by Phillip Stearns, produced using images generated from short-circuited cameras as pattern sources.