Reality into Music

I’m interested in spatial representation of sound and translation of space into sound. I’ve been researching methods to narrate music, experimental music scores that allows interpretation of pieces by performers and visualisations of computer music which visualises music that can’t … Read More

Reverse Labs

Before Reverse Labs was born, Eugenio and I had an initial concept that was to create two immersive spaces that would encourage the desire to learn. One space was for an educational game and one was a ‘what if’ environment … Read More

Reverse Labs

How do people  Learn? How do people process information? How do people remember? and if they do, what and how much do they remember? These were some of the initial questions that drove mine and Ahrian’s research.

Quite often we … Read More

Play-Space as a Research Tool

We are interested in investigating the affective feedback system between body and space using a physical play landscape, outfitted with bio-sensing technology of the EEG headset. As our design project, we wanted to create a series of experiments and we … Read More

Neoteny : mechanism for rapid adaptation

“The philosophical question is no longer who I really am, but where I presently am.” Paul Virillo, ‘Polar Inertia’, 1990

I am interested in exploring the body movement and posture towards different environments, how they communicate with each other through … Read More

[Un] Balance : an exploration of movements and emotions through spatial experiences altering the balance of the body

[Un] Balance is a prototype based on the exploration of movements and emotions through spatial experiences altering the balance of the body. To approach this idea, Elyne Legarnisson and Amanda Simo have been researching about the reasons of … Read More

(Im)mobile Montage

‘An  architectural ensemble . . . is a montage from the point of view of a moving spectator . . . Cinematographic montage is, too, a means to ‘link’ in one point – the screen- various elements (fragments) of a … Read More

Edge of Chaos

Between order and chaos, a mathematical space originally studied to understand the behaviour of avalanches and crystallisation of liquids, scientists are uncovering the rules for the existence of life itself. A small region called the “Edge of Chaos” displays complex … Read More

The Fourth Wall

Fourth Wall | “Whether you write or act, think no more of the audience than if it had never existed. Imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating you from the audience, and behave exactly as … Read More

Place not Scene

Atmosphere, collective experience and mystery are words that I would use to describe my idealistic scenario for enjoying live music. Although such events exists and of course other factors are important, I cant help but feel disappointed when I go … Read More

My Emotive Bot

These last six weeks I tried to give my hacked robot behaviour and make it more alive for the person to interact with it easily. My aim was to investigate the possibility of replacing behaviour based language instead of verbal … Read More

Keepon Hack

Human society is a mixture of people with different perception and each person communicates through his own perception of the outer world. We can sink the objects around us to our body in order to visualize data from our body. … Read More

The search of the magical and poetical fascination between performers and audiences

The last few weeks have been dedicated to the research of holographic projection techniques. Starting of with the use of a special holographic gauze called Holo-Gauze by Holotronica Ltd to projections onto haze and steam.

Being fascinated and very interested … Read More

Prototypes of Kinetic Art

I spent this winter term in the shop space at Here East creating my first kinetic sculptures. I have been experimenting with the animation of material objects as a way to immerse viewers in displays of analog movement. This is … Read More

Solarbots_Adaptive Strategy Using Pneumatic system

For the project fair we exhibited our collection of solar robot and solar apparatus using pneumatic systems

 Technical aspects: 

  Solar Tracking system

•  Gis data is inserted into Grasshopper and Ladybug … Read More

Nähe. Emotional and physical closeness

The German word ‘Nähe’ can be translated as closeness, nearness and affinity as well as proximity and vicinity. It therefore brings together the spatial and emotional closeness. In my research I am investigating the relationship between the two. To do … Read More

Social Media Responsive Robot Week 5 and 6

For week 5 we tried creating some more different prototypes for the environment, but they were not successful, so for week 6 we plan to develop the pop up and cut out environments from week 4 further.

We were successful … Read More

Personalized Robot and Bio Sensing

I had a discussion about appending personality to the robot in addition to setting behavior based on biodata. I made a model of mobile Keepon with DC motors and proximity sensors to control the mobility. it was suggested to add … Read More