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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...
Towards Matter, Particularly – Sensory encounter with a microscopic world
In 'Towards Matter, Particularly' scientific instruments are repurposed to bring to our sensual awareness the ever-present particles whirling with us. The particles determine how and when they reveal themselves, eliciting moments of light and soun...
Vulcan – Beyond the three-metre threshold
Vulcan is an immersive journey to the heart of telluric powers. It is a tribute to volcanologists and volcanoes, exploring themes such as human smallness and the fascination of the immensity of natural forces.
Alternative Clock – Time as a cultural artifact
Alternative Clock is a research project that examines “clock time” as a form of data, exploring how it governs lives and shapes the built environment, and a prototype of clocks that operate using diverse data inputs, offering new ways to experienc...
The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Social Media, and Profit in the Age of Misinformation
The Conspiracy Capitaliser is a research project by Robert Collins to investigate and understand the intersection between AI, social media and profit. Comprised of a device, as a non-human participant, it allows the user to explore a wide spectrum...
Data Poets – People, Urban Space, and AI
Data Poets project explorse embodied interactions between people and urban spaces through AI, pushing the boundaries of how we experience AI beyond screens and voices. Inspired by the organic aesthetics of ceramics, Gaston wanted to create a physi...
Sonic Imagination – When We Grow Old
Sonic Imagination is a speculative auditive environment that places four scenarios for demographic change in Switzerland until the year 2070 on the Freilager-Platz in Basel. The project investigates the hypothesis that virtual sound sources in med...
A minimalist, Arduino-compatible Air Quality Sensor
The Air Quality Sensor is a beautiful home object that helps you discover how air quality is affecting your environment – now looking for support via Kickstarter.
SPIN: AI-Music Synthesizer
SPIN is an AI music synthesizer that allows you to co-create compositions with a language model, MusicGen. It is a playful invitation to explore the nuances of algorithmic music, encouraging you to slow down and zoom in on its artifacts. It celebr...
Round About Four Dimensions – Exploring the Unknown
Created by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, Round About Four Dimensions sculpture represents a “hypercube”, “four-cube” or “tesseract”, often cited in mathematical and physical theories to illustrate concepts beyond three spatial dimensions.
The Crochet Protocol – Machines in need of human labour
Created by Julia Vollmer at HFK Bremen, The Crochet Protocol explores the interaction between crocheting, code, the wearer and the control through a machine.
Organic Matrix – Mixing data for AI flesh
LOW·AI BOX is an AI machine art that includes a transparent machine structure, an AI system, a sensor system, and an IoT system.
Portable Black Cat Radar – Mediating Superstition
The Portable Black Cat Radar is part of an ongoing series exploring Machines Responding to Superstitions. The device is comprised of a GPS, gyroscope and magnetometer to gauge your position in the world while at the same time generating fictional ...
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...
RWM MK1 – Soundscapes of electromagnetic radiation
The RWM MK1 (Radio Wave Modulator Mark 1) is an experimental electronic synthesizer that captures and transforms the constant stream of radio waves and transmissions passing through Earth's atmosphere.
Zed: Automata-Interactive Drawing Installation
Created at Goldsmiths (University of London) for the degree show project of MA computational Art, Zed is a real-time drawing device centred around the character Zed, intended to evoke a sense of sacredness akin to a religious ritual.
MetaTouch – Tactile cabinet of curiosities
MetaTouch is an XR installation exploring virtual touch in which participants are provided with multisensory feedback in response to their interactions with a series of tactile modules. 
Unpredictable Atmosphere at 24GHz
Unpredictable atmosphere is a research project that investigates a thin and unstable layer above the ground where data, both transmitted and collected, acquire new dimensions in an invisible landscape of conflict.
VBox – AI-powered radio for musical exploration
Created by Danning Liang and Artem Laptiev at the MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, VBox is an AI-powered radio for musical exploration and group vibrations. Through the Large Language Model, VBox captures the various abstracted understan...
Equilibrium Morphologies – Responsive Modeling Framework for the Form-Finding of Membrane Structures
'Equilibrium Morphologies' investigates how complex articulated membrane structures can be erected and tensioned through emergent behaviours of interacting forces and explore multiple states of equilibrium.
Vague Boundaries – Particles, lines, and waves
Created by Jonghong Park, Vague Boundaries explores 'boundaries' between matter and phenomena. The custom made machine draws straight lines continuously on the paper by snapping the thread with the mechanism of the chalk line tool.
Ghostwriter – GPT3 Powered Typewriter
Ghostwriter is a project that invites us to mindfully co-create with the AI through a vintage typewriter’s tactile and physical form. Imagined as a calm meditative interface it removes all the digital distractions and takes us on an emotional jour...
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+).
Towards Matter, Particularly – Sensory encounter with a microscopic world
In 'Towards Matter, Particularly' scientific instruments are repurposed to bring to our sensual awareness the ever-present particles whirling with us. The particles determine how and when they reveal themselves, eliciting moments of light and sound and inviting new relationships with the matter that is us and our world.
Vulcan – Beyond the three-metre threshold
Vulcan is an immersive journey to the heart of telluric powers. It is a tribute to volcanologists and volcanoes, exploring themes such as human smallness and the fascination of the immensity of natural forces.
Alternative Clock – Time as a cultural artifact
Alternative Clock is a research project that examines “clock time” as a form of data, exploring how it governs lives and shapes the built environment, and a prototype of clocks that operate using diverse data inputs, offering new ways to experience and interact with time.
The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Social Media, and Profit in the Age of Misinformation
The Conspiracy Capitaliser is a research project by Robert Collins to investigate and understand the intersection between AI, social media and profit. Comprised of a device, as a non-human participant, it allows the user to explore a wide spectrum of untruths which can be produced by AI systems and to experience, first-hand, the ethical dilemmas...
Data Poets – People, Urban Space, and AI
Data Poets project explorse embodied interactions between people and urban spaces through AI, pushing the boundaries of how we experience AI beyond screens and voices. Inspired by the organic aesthetics of ceramics, Gaston wanted to create a physical presence for AI, turning it into an active “experiencer” of the world around us.

Sonic Imagination – When We Grow Old
Sonic Imagination is a speculative auditive environment that places four scenarios for demographic change in Switzerland until the year 2070 on the Freilager-Platz in Basel. The project investigates the hypothesis that virtual sound sources in media-enhanced listening environments are particularly suitable for triggering and controlling imaginat...
A minimalist, Arduino-compatible Air Quality Sensor
The Air Quality Sensor is a beautiful home object that helps you discover how air quality is affecting your environment – now looking for support via Kickstarter.
SPIN: AI-Music Synthesizer
SPIN is an AI music synthesizer that allows you to co-create compositions with a language model, MusicGen. It is a playful invitation to explore the nuances of algorithmic music, encouraging you to slow down and zoom in on its artifacts. It celebrates the marriage between human and machine creativity through music.
Round About Four Dimensions – Exploring the Unknown
Created by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, Round About Four Dimensions sculpture represents a “hypercube”, “four-cube” or “tesseract”, often cited in mathematical and physical theories to illustrate concepts beyond three spatial dimensions.
The Crochet Protocol – Machines in need of human labour
Created by Julia Vollmer at HFK Bremen, The Crochet Protocol explores the interaction between crocheting, code, the wearer and the control through a machine.
Organic Matrix – Mixing data for AI flesh
LOW·AI BOX is an AI machine art that includes a transparent machine structure, an AI system, a sensor system, and an IoT system.
Portable Black Cat Radar – Mediating Superstition
The Portable Black Cat Radar is part of an ongoing series exploring Machines Responding to Superstitions. The device is comprised of a GPS, gyroscope and magnetometer to gauge your position in the world while at the same time generating fictional black cats for you to dodge.
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...
RWM MK1 – Soundscapes of electromagnetic radiation
The RWM MK1 (Radio Wave Modulator Mark 1) is an experimental electronic synthesizer that captures and transforms the constant stream of radio waves and transmissions passing through Earth's atmosphere.
Zed: Automata-Interactive Drawing Installation
Created at Goldsmiths (University of London) for the degree show project of MA computational Art, Zed is a real-time drawing device centred around the character Zed, intended to evoke a sense of sacredness akin to a religious ritual.
MetaTouch – Tactile cabinet of curiosities
MetaTouch is an XR installation exploring virtual touch in which participants are provided with multisensory feedback in response to their interactions with a series of tactile modules. 
Unpredictable Atmosphere at 24GHz
Unpredictable atmosphere is a research project that investigates a thin and unstable layer above the ground where data, both transmitted and collected, acquire new dimensions in an invisible landscape of conflict.
VBox – AI-powered radio for musical exploration
Created by Danning Liang and Artem Laptiev at the MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, VBox is an AI-powered radio for musical exploration and group vibrations. Through the Large Language Model, VBox captures the various abstracted understandings of the song played in the form of texts and lets you travel down one of these rabbit holes to ...
Equilibrium Morphologies – Responsive Modeling Framework for the Form-Finding of Membrane Structures
'Equilibrium Morphologies' investigates how complex articulated membrane structures can be erected and tensioned through emergent behaviours of interacting forces and explore multiple states of equilibrium.
Vague Boundaries – Particles, lines, and waves
Created by Jonghong Park, Vague Boundaries explores 'boundaries' between matter and phenomena. The custom made machine draws straight lines continuously on the paper by snapping the thread with the mechanism of the chalk line tool.
Ghostwriter – GPT3 Powered Typewriter
Ghostwriter is a project that invites us to mindfully co-create with the AI through a vintage typewriter’s tactile and physical form. Imagined as a calm meditative interface it removes all the digital distractions and takes us on an emotional journey through paper and ink.

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Titles 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...
, Towards Matter, Particularly – Sensor...
In 'Towards Matter, Particularly' scientific instruments are repurposed to bring to our sensual awareness the ever-present particles whirling with us. The particles determine how and when they reveal themselves, eliciting moments of light and soun...
, Vulcan – Beyond the three-metre thres...
Vulcan is an immersive journey to the heart of telluric powers. It is a tribute to volcanologists and volcanoes, exploring themes such as human smallness and the fascination of the immensity of natural forces.
, Alternative Clock – Time as a cultura...
Alternative Clock is a research project that examines “clock time” as a form of data, exploring how it governs lives and shapes the built environment, and a prototype of clocks that operate using diverse data inputs, offering new ways to experienc...
, The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Soci...
The Conspiracy Capitaliser is a research project by Robert Collins to investigate and understand the intersection between AI, social media and profit. Comprised of a device, as a non-human participant, it allows the user to explore a wide spectrum...
, Data Poets – People, Urban Space, and AI
Data Poets project explorse embodied interactions between people and urban spaces through AI, pushing the boundaries of how we experience AI beyond screens and voices. Inspired by the organic aesthetics of ceramics, Gaston wanted to create a physi...
, Sonic Imagination – When We Grow Old
Sonic Imagination is a speculative auditive environment that places four scenarios for demographic change in Switzerland until the year 2070 on the Freilager-Platz in Basel. The project investigates the hypothesis that virtual sound sources in med...
, A minimalist, Arduino-compatible Air ...
The Air Quality Sensor is a beautiful home object that helps you discover how air quality is affecting your environment – now looking for support via Kickstarter.
, SPIN: AI-Music Synthesizer
SPIN is an AI music synthesizer that allows you to co-create compositions with a language model, MusicGen. It is a playful invitation to explore the nuances of algorithmic music, encouraging you to slow down and zoom in on its artifacts. It celebr...
, Round About Four Dimensions – Explori...
Created by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, Round About Four Dimensions sculpture represents a “hypercube”, “four-cube” or “tesseract”, often cited in mathematical and physical theories to illustrate concepts beyond three spatial dimensions.
, The Crochet Protocol – Machines in ne...
Created by Julia Vollmer at HFK Bremen, The Crochet Protocol explores the interaction between crocheting, code, the wearer and the control through a machine.
, Organic Matrix – Mixing data for AI f...
LOW·AI BOX is an AI machine art that includes a transparent machine structure, an AI system, a sensor system, and an IoT system.
, Portable Black Cat Radar – Mediating ...
The Portable Black Cat Radar is part of an ongoing series exploring Machines Responding to Superstitions. The device is comprised of a GPS, gyroscope and magnetometer to gauge your position in the world while at the same time generating fictional ...
, 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...
, RWM MK1 – Soundscapes of electromagne...
The RWM MK1 (Radio Wave Modulator Mark 1) is an experimental electronic synthesizer that captures and transforms the constant stream of radio waves and transmissions passing through Earth's atmosphere.
, Zed: Automata-Interactive Drawing Ins...
Created at Goldsmiths (University of London) for the degree show project of MA computational Art, Zed is a real-time drawing device centred around the character Zed, intended to evoke a sense of sacredness akin to a religious ritual.
, MetaTouch – Tactile cabinet of curios...
MetaTouch is an XR installation exploring virtual touch in which participants are provided with multisensory feedback in response to their interactions with a series of tactile modules. 
, Unpredictable Atmosphere at 24GHz
Unpredictable atmosphere is a research project that investigates a thin and unstable layer above the ground where data, both transmitted and collected, acquire new dimensions in an invisible landscape of conflict.
, VBox – AI-powered radio for musical e...
Created by Danning Liang and Artem Laptiev at the MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, VBox is an AI-powered radio for musical exploration and group vibrations. Through the Large Language Model, VBox captures the various abstracted understan...
, Equilibrium Morphologies – Responsive...
'Equilibrium Morphologies' investigates how complex articulated membrane structures can be erected and tensioned through emergent behaviours of interacting forces and explore multiple states of equilibrium.
, Vague Boundaries – Particles, lines, ...
Created by Jonghong Park, Vague Boundaries explores 'boundaries' between matter and phenomena. The custom made machine draws straight lines continuously on the paper by snapping the thread with the mechanism of the chalk line tool.
, Ghostwriter – GPT3 Powered Typewriter
Ghostwriter is a project that invites us to mindfully co-create with the AI through a vintage typewriter’s tactile and physical form. Imagined as a calm meditative interface it removes all the digital distractions and takes us on an emotional jour...
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